CHAPTER VII

A Court Function--The Empress of Austria--The Troubadours --Amateur Theatricals--The Empress of Russia--The Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg--Tableaux-Vivants--Queen Hortense’s Songs--The Moustaches of the Comte de Wurbna-- Songs in Action--The Orphan of the Prisons--Diplomacy and Dancing--A Ball and a Supper at Court, 137