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Another revelation is "Fête Champêtre," or "Country Festival," a suite of seven paintings that formerly decorated an English country house.

It swelled to 100 guests and was followed by two dinners and a fête champêtre in England.

It is fête champêtre, not fête champêre.

Now and then a maroon party, or West Indian fête champetre, is given; when groups of beautiful girls and gallant youths, stayed matrons, and gentlemen of riper years, assemble together, with full purpose to enjoy the passing hours.

Here our young men enjoyed, as they supposed, a glimpse of American society, which was distributed over the measureless expanse in a variety of sedentary attitudes and appeared to consist largely of pretty young girls, dressed as for a fête champêtre, swaying to and fro in rocking-chairs, fanning themselves with large straw fans and enjoying an enviable exemption from social cares.