CHAPTER XVI

Reception at Madame de Fuchs’s--Prince Philippe d’Hesse-Hombourg--The Journalists and Newsmongers of Vienna--The French Village in Germany--Prince Eugène-- Recollection of the Consulate--Tribulations of M. Denville --Mme. Récamier--The Return of the _Émigré_--Childhood’s Friend, or the Magic of a Name--Ball at Lord Stewart’s-- Alexander proclaimed King of Poland--The Prince Czartoryski --Confidence of the Poles--Count Arthur Potocki--The Revolutions of Poland--Slavery--Vandar--Ivan, or the Polish Serf, 328