ground-slip

Updated: May 28, 2025

Would anybody believe," continues M. Malouet, "that M. Necker had an idea of inventing a ground-slip, a falling-in of the cellars of the Menus, and of throwing down during the night the carpentry of the grand room, in order to remove and install the three orders separately?

M. (François) Guizot - A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6