Bien que n'étant pas autorisée à y dormir la nuit avant sa majorité (25 ans), elle s'y rend tous les jours à cheval depuis le château de Versailles. La vie qu'elle y mène , plus simple qu'à la cour, est rythmée par les loisirs auxquels elle a pris goût dans son enfance,par ses actes de piété et ses bonnes oeuvres, qui lui valent le surnom de "Bonne dame de Montreuil".
In 1783, when Madame Elisabeth was 19, Louis XVI gave her a plot of land and a house in the village of Montreuil in Versailles and is know as the "Domaine de Madame Elisabeth".
Although she was not allowed to sleep here before coming of age (25), she rode there every day from the palace of Versailles.
The life she lived there, simpler than at the court, was dominated by the leisure activities that she had adopted in her childhood, and by the pious practices and works of charity that earned her the nickname "Bonne dame de Montreuil".
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