Chapter 4

UNDER THE BOURBON FLAG

French prisoners--Oldenburg bonnets--"Fugio ut Fulgor"--Soldiers of the Empire--Paris--A French hotel--A walk through Paris--Portrait of Madame de Staël--An English ambassador--The Louvre--French tragedy--The heights of Montmartre--Cossacks in the Champs Elysées--£900 for substitute--Napoleon's legacies to his successor--A dinner at the English Embassy--Botany and mineralogy--Party at Madame de Staëls--A debate in the Corps Législatif--Malmaison--Elbowing the marshals--St Cloud and Trianon--The Catacombs.

_Edward Stanley to his Wife._