In the library, where the Duke and Duchess spend their hours of rest and leisure

Two years have passed since the Duke and Duchess of Windsor took up residence in the sumptuous mansion which the neighbors call "Bagatelle." This dwelling of twenty-five rooms, whose balconies look out over luxuriant gardens, was occupied for a time by General de Gaulle, and the Sultan of Morocco stayed in it for a spell when he took refuge in Paris in 1952. Everything in the house is arranged with an artist's taste, wrapped in a veil of the color blue — the color of the Duchess's eyes...

The two tastes have joined in choosing the furnishings and the sumptuous furniture; the Duchess lays her hand on her husband's shoulder with assurance, and he smiles at her a smile holding such harmony and understanding as promises still longer spells of this shared wedded bliss... The shadow of autumn flutters over the mansion: the lights are soft and quiet, the breezes gentle, and on the garden's carpet squat "Wisri" and "Troubir," the two friendly dogs, receiving the Duke and Duchess's many visitors — from whom the flood of happiness and the perfumed rapture filling the air cannot be hidden.

In 1953 the Duke decided to leave the mansion standing in the quarter of "Faisanderie," when his wife complained of the breadth of its spaces and its coldness; and two years later they bought, at "Gif-sur-Yvette,"