I'm reading the Devils of Loudon and a particular passage jumped out at me as being somewhat odd. The passage was about the upbringing and early life of Louis XIII (who the novel refers to as Dauphin). In it it mentions that not only as a child of 4 or 5 years old he often slept with his ladies in waiting (with other woman and their husbands!) but that he also had no privacy because architects hadn't invented corridors yet and you had to pass from room to room to get around. Would a 17th century palace really not have hallways or is this just Aldous Huxley exaggerating a bit to explain Louis XIII's sexual oddness? The passage in question:

It seems likely enough that, by the time he was four or five, the little boy knew all the facts of life, and knew them not merely by hearsay, but by inspection. This seems all the more probably since a seventeenth-century palace was totally without privacy. Architects had not yet invented the corridor. To get through one part of the building to another, one simply walked through a succession of other people's rooms, in which literally anything might be going on.