CHAPTER IV

Usurped celebrity--M. Lemercier and his works--Racan's white hare--_Le Fiesque_ by M. Ancelot--The Romantic artists --Scheffer--Delacroix--Sigalon--Schnetz--Coigniet--Boulanger --Géricault--_La Méduse_ in the artist's studio--Lord Byron's funeral obsequies in England--Sheridan's body claimed for debt.