"Imagine the chandeliers being lowered from their great heig..

"Imagine the chandeliers being lowered from their great height so that formally frocked footman could light their thousand tapers to fill the cavernous ball room" with glorious amber light…Just beware! The wax often dripped on the people below. A good maid/valet knew how to remove wax from any garment. LMB “A Masked Ball held for the King and Queen by the city of Paris on 23 Jan 1782 to mark the Dauphin’s birth”