Would you mind looking at this phrase? How would you interpret ‘the Madame du Barry room’ in the last passage? I guess ‘Madame du Barry’ may refer to the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France. But I can’t make out the meaning of ‘the Madame du Barry room’ by the context, for the author hasn’t mentioned it before. Would it be possible that it means a room with the decoration similar to the one of the room where Madame du Barry had lived? What do you think? PS: the context is extracted from ‘The Fall of Edward Barnard’ written by the English writer William Somerset Maugham.the context: At dinner, at which beside himself and Isabel no one was present but her father and mother, he watched her guide the conversation into the channels of an urbane small-talk, and it occurred to him that in just such a manner would a marquise under the shadow of the guillotine toy with the affairs of a day that would know no morrow. Her delicate features, the aristocratic shortness of her upper lip, and her wealth of fair hair suggested the marquise again, and it must have been obvious, even if it were not notorious, that in her veins flowed the best blood in Chicago. The dining-room was a fitting frame to her fragile beauty, for Isabel had caused the house, a replica of a palace on the Grand Canal at Venice, to be furnished by an English expert in the style of Louis XV; and the graceful decoration linked with the name of that amorous monarch enhanced her loveliness and at the same time acquired from it a more profound significance. For Isabel's mind was richly stored, and her conversation, however light, was never flippant. She spoke now of the Musicale to which she and her mother had been in the afternoon, of the lectures which an English poet was giving at the Auditorium, of the political situation, and of the Old Master which her father had recently bought for fifty thousand dollars in New York. It comforted Bateman to hear her. He felt that he was once more in the civilised world, at the centre of culture and distinction; and certain voices, troubling and yet against his will refusing to still their clamour, were at last silent in his heart. "Gee, but it's good to be back in Chicago," he said. At last dinner was over, and when they went out of the dining-room Isabel said to her mother: "I'm going to take Bateman along to my den. We have various things to talk about." "Very well, my dear," said Mrs Longstaffe. "You'll find your father and me in the Madame du Barry room when you're through."