An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections

PAGE The Quartier-Latin in the late thirties -- The difference between then and now -- A caricature on the walls of Paris -- I am anxious to be introduced to the quarter whence...

My introduction to the celebrities of the day -- The Café de Paris -- The old Prince Demidoff -- The old man's mania -- His sons -- The furniture and attendance at the Café de P...

Alexandre Dumas père -- Why he made himself particularly agreeable to Englishmen -- His way of silencing people -- The pursuit he loved best next to literature -- He has the pri...

Dr. Louis Véron -- The real man as distinguished from that of his own "Memoirs" -- He takes the management of the Paris Opéra -- How it was governed before his advent -- Meyerbe...

The Boulevards in the forties -- The Chinese Baths -- A favourite tobacconist of Alfred de Musset -- The price of cigars -- The diligence still the usual mode of travelling -- P...

Rachel and some of her fellow-actors -- Rachel's true character -- Her greediness and spitefulness -- Her vanity and her wit -- Her powers of fascination -- The cost of being fa...

Two composers, Auber and Félicien David -- Auber, the legend of his youthful appearance -- How it arose -- His daily rides, his love of women's society -- His mot on Mozart's "D...

Three painters, and a school for pifferari -- Gabriel Decamps, Eugène Delacroix, and Horace Vernet -- The prices of pictures in the forties -- Delacroix' find no purchasers at a...

Louis-Philippe and his family -- An unpublished theatrical skit on his mania for shaking hands with every one -- His art of governing, according to the same skit -- Louis-Philip...

The Revolution of '48 -- The beginning of it -- The National Guards in all their glory -- The Café Grégoire on the Place du Caire -- The price of a good breakfast in '48 -- The...

The Second Republic -- Lamartine's reason for proclaiming it -- Suspects Louis-Napoléon of similar motives for wishing to overthrow it -- Tells him to go back to England -- De P...

Guizot, Lamartine, and Béranger -- Public opinion at sea with regard to the real Guizot -- People fail to see the real man behind the politician -- Guizot regrets this false con...

Some men of the Empire -- Fialin de Persigny -- The public prosecutor's opinion of him expressed at the trial for high treason in 1836 -- Superior in many respects to Louis-Napo...

Society during the Second Empire -- The Court at Compiègne -- The English element -- Their opinion of Louis-Napoléon -- The difference between the court of Louis-Philippe and th...

Society during the Empire -- The series of guests at Compiègne -- The amusements -- the absence of musical taste in the Bonapartes -- The programme on the first, second, third,...

The story of a celebrated sculptor and his model -- David d'Angers at the funeral of Cortot, the sculptor -- How I became acquainted with him -- The sculptor leaves the funeral...

Queen Victoria in Paris -- The beginning of the era of middle-class excursions -- English visitors before that -- The British tourist of 1855 -- The real revenge of Waterloo --...

Marshal Vaillant -- The beginning of our acquaintance -- His stories of the swashbucklers of the First Empire, and the beaux of the Restauration -- Rabelaisian, but clever -- Ma...

The Franco-German War -- Friday, July 15, 1870, 6 p.m. -- My friends "confident of France being able to chastise the insolence of the King of Prussia" -- I do not share their co...

The war -- Reaction before the Emperor's departure -- The moral effects of the publication of the draft treaty -- "Bismarck has done the Emperor" -- The Parisians did not like t...

The 4th of September -- A comic, not a tragic revolution -- A burlesque Harold and a burlesque Boadicea -- The news of Sedan only known publicly on the 3rd of September -- Grief...

The siege -- The Parisians convinced that the Germans will not invest Paris -- Paris becomes a vast drill-ground, nevertheless -- The Parisians leave off singing, but listen to...

The siege -- The food-supply of Paris -- How and what the Parisians eat and drink -- Bread, meat, and wine -- Alcoholism -- The waste among the London poor -- The French take a...

Some men of the Commune -- Cluseret -- His opinion of Rossel -- His opinion of Bergeret -- What Cluseret was fighting for -- Thiers and Abraham Lincoln -- Raoul Rigault on horse...

The Quartier-Latin in the late thirties -- The difference between then and now -- A caricature on the walls of Paris -- I am anxious to be introduced to the quarter whence it em...

My introduction to the celebrities of the day -- The Café de Paris -- The old Prince Demidoff -- The old man's mania -- His sons -- The furniture and attendance at the Café de P...

Alexandre Dumas père -- Why he made himself particularly agreeable to Englishmen -- His way of silencing people -- The pursuit he loved best next to literature -- He has the pri...

Dr. Louis Véron -- The real man as distinguished from that of his own "Memoirs" -- He takes the management of the Paris Opéra -- How it was governed before his advent -- Meyerbe...

The Boulevards in the forties -- The Chinese Baths -- A favourite tobacconist of Alfred de Musset -- The price of cigars -- The diligence still the usual mode of travelling -- P...

open-mouthed when she took her stand behind the little rail which does duty for a witness-box in France. She was dressed in mourning--not the deepest, but soft masses of silk an...

Rachel and some of her fellow-actors -- Rachel's true character -- Her greediness and spitefulness -- Her vanity and her wit -- Her powers of fascination -- The cost of being fa...

Two composers, Auber and Félicien David -- Auber, the legend of his youthful appearance -- How it arose -- His daily rides, his love of women's society -- His mot on Mozart's "D...

Three painters, and a school for pifferari -- Gabriel Decamps, Eugène Delacroix, and Horace Vernet -- The prices of pictures in the forties -- Delacroix' find no purchasers at a...

Louis-Philippe and his family -- An unpublished theatrical skit on his mania for shaking hands with every one -- His art of governing, according to the same skit -- Louis-Philip...

The Revolution of '48 -- The beginning of it -- The National Guards in all their glory -- The Café Grégoire on the Place du Caire -- The price of a good breakfast in '48 -- The...

The Second Republic -- Lamartine's reason for proclaiming it -- Suspects Louis-Napoléon of similar motives for wishing to overthrow it -- Tells him to go back to England -- De P...

Guizot, Lamartine, and Béranger -- Public opinion at sea with regard to the real Guizot -- People fail to see the real man behind the politician -- Guizot regrets this false con...

Some men of the Empire -- Fialin de Persigny -- The public prosecutor's opinion of him expressed at the trial for high treason in 1836 -- Superior in many respects to Louis-Napo...

Society during the Second Empire -- The Court at Compiègne -- The English element -- Their opinion of Louis-Napoléon -- The difference between the court of Louis-Philippe and th...

Society during the Empire -- The series of guests at Compiègne -- The amusements -- the absence of musical taste in the Bonapartes -- The programme on the first, second, third,...

The story of a celebrated sculptor and his model -- David d'Angers at the funeral of Cortot, the sculptor -- How I became acquainted with him -- The sculptor leaves the funeral...

between twelve and one, at a house in the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, near the hospital of the Val-de-Grace. The letter told me how to proceed. There being no concierge in the house...

Queen Victoria in Paris -- The beginning of the era of middle-class excursions -- English visitors before that -- The British tourist of 1855 -- The real revenge of Waterloo --...

Marshal Vaillant -- The beginning of our acquaintance -- His stories of the swashbucklers of the First Empire, and the beaux of the Restauration -- Rabelaisian, but clever -- Ma...

The Franco-German War -- Friday, July 15, 1870, 6 p.m. -- My friends "confident of France being able to chastise the insolence of the King of Prussia" -- I do not share their co...

The war -- Reaction before the Emperor's departure -- The moral effects of the publication of the draft treaty -- "Bismarck has done the Emperor" -- The Parisians did not like t...

The 4th of September -- A comic, not a tragic revolution -- A burlesque Harold and a burlesque Boadicea -- The news of Sedan only known publicly on the 3rd of September -- Grief...

The siege -- The Parisians convinced that the Germans will not invest Paris -- Paris becomes a vast drill-ground, nevertheless -- The Parisians leave off singing, but listen to...

The siege -- The food-supply of Paris -- How and what the Parisians eat and drink -- Bread, meat, and wine -- Alcoholism -- The waste among the London poor -- The French take a...

Some men of the Commune -- Cluseret -- His opinion of Rossel -- His opinion of Bergeret -- What Cluseret was fighting for -- Thiers and Abraham Lincoln -- Raoul Rigault on horse...