Custom of letting out Furniture—The Prince
and Princesse Castelcicala—Lady Hawarden—Lady
Combermere—Tone of Society at Paris—Attentions
paid by Young Men to Old Ladies—Flirtations
at Paris—Ceremonious Decorum—Comic
Charles de Mornay—Parisian Upholsterers—Rich
Furniture—Lord Yarmouth—Elegant
Suite of Apartments—Charles Mills—Warm
Affections between Relatives in France, 56.
CHAPTER VII.
Domestic Arrangements—Changes in Young
People—Pleasant Recollections—Lord
Lilford—The Marquis and Marquise Zamperi—Comte
Alexander de Laborde—The Marquis de Mornay—Mode
of passing the Time—Evening Visits in France—Dinner-party—The
Duc Dalberg—The Duc de Mouchy—Party
to Montmorency—Rousseau’s Hermitage—Sensibility,
a Characteristic of Genius—Solitude—Letter
of Rousseau to Voltaire—Church, of Montmorency—Baths
at Enghien—The Comtesse de Gand—Colonel
E. Lygon—The Marquis de Dreux-Breze—Contrast
between him and the Duc de Talleyrand—The
Baron and Baroness de Ruysch—Mr. Douglas
Kinnaird—Sir Francis Burdett—Colonel
Leicester Stanhope—The Marquis Palavicini—Charms
of Italian Women—Lords Darnley and Charlemont—Mr.
Young, the Tragedian—Lord Lansdowne—Estimate
of his Character—Sir Robert Peel—Respect
for the Memory of Sir William Drummond—Lady
Drummond—“Vivian Grey”—Mr.
Standish—Intermarriages between the French
and the English, 64.
CHAPTER VIII.
Charles Kemble—His Daughter’s Tragedy
of “Francis the First”—Recollections
of John Kemble—The Opera—Count
Ory—Sir A. Barnard—Secret
of Happiness—Visit to Mademoiselle Mars—Her
Residence described—Memorial of her Theatrical
Career—The Duchesse de la Force—Madame
Grassini—Anecdote of her—Visit
to Orsay—Its Situation—The Princesse
de Croy—Hamlet of Palaiseau—Drama
of La Pie Voteuse—Family of the
Duc de Guiche—The Vaudeville Theatre—Scribe’s
Avant, Pendant, el Apres—Its Dangerous
Tendency—French Ambition—Parisian
Shopkeepers—Their Officious Conduct, 78.
CHAPTER IX.
Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay—French
Politeness—Mr. D—— and
Mr.
T—— —Study of Shakespeare—Attractions
of Mrs. T—— —Lady
Charlotte Llndsay and the Misses Berry—Sir
William Gell—Mr. and Mrs.
Hare—Female Amiability—Shopping—Hints
on Female Dress—Brilliancy of
French Conversation—Mr. J. Strangways—A
severe Trial—The
Plague-spot—Miraculous Escape—Dinner
given by Comte A. de
Maussion—Goethe’s Faust—Character
of “Margaret”—The witty Mr.
M—— —Lord Byron—French
Quickness of Apprehension—Sept
Heures—Character of Charlotte Corday—Degenerate
Taste of the
Parisians—Hasty Conclusions, 91.
CHAPTER X.
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