Maria Edgeworth and Her Circle in the Days of Buonaparte and Bourbon (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXX FAREWELL TO FRANCE The Edgeworths reached Paris, after spending a few days at Lyons, on October 27. Maria writes on the following day from the H6tel Vauban, 366 Rue Saint-Honord: "We arrived here yesterday. Good Mrs. Creed, whom we troubled to look out for lodgings for us, has engaged a floor in this hotel, which we have all to ourselves--very comfortable; the woman of the house respectable and civil, and we have Rodolphe again for our valet de place, and a femme de chambre, whom I like better than our former Josephine." In a letter written early in November to her aunt Mrs. Ruxton, she says: "I write this merely to tell you that I have at last had the pleasure of seeing Madame la Comtesse deVaudreuil, the daughter of your friend. She is an exceedingly pleasing woman, of high fashion, with the remains of great beauty, courteous and kind to us beyond all expectation. She had but a few days in Paris and she made out two for us; she took us to the Conciergerie to see, by lamp-light, the dungeon where the poor Queen and Madame Elizabeth were confined, now fitted up as little chapels.... Who do you think accompanied us to this place? Lady Beauchamp, Lady Longford's mother, a great friend of Madame de Vaudreuil's, with whom we dined the next day, and who had procured for us the Duc de Choiseul's box at the Theatre Francais, when the house was to be uncommonly crowded to see Mademoiselle Duchenois in Athalie ' avec tous les Chceurs, ' and a most striking spectacle it was I had never seen Mademoiselle Duchenois to perfection before.... "We have seen Mademoiselle Mars twice, or thrice rather, in the Mariage de Figaro and in the little pieces of Le jaloux sans Amour and La jeunesse de Henri Cinq, and admire her exceedingly." Mary Berry, who was in Paris ...