On the March--The Seine--Beauty of the Country--Passage of the Seine--Colombes--Drawbacks--My Quarters--The Garden and Grounds--View from my Window--My Chateau--Its Furnishings--State of our Horses--An Excursion--The Country round Paris--View of Paris--A Wet Day--My Landlord--Country Pleasures--My Occupations--Our Fare--A Fracas--Our Brunswickers Mutinous--Their Complaints--My Answer to them--Harvesting--French Peasantry--The Women--Food of the Peasantry--Inn Signs--A Lady of the Old Régime--A Ride to Paris--The Seine and its Banks--First Visit to Paris--Aspect of the Streets--Parisian Equipages--The Champs Elysées--The Place Louis Quinze--The Austerlitz Column--London and Paris--The Streets of Paris--The Boulevard des Italiens, 94 CHAPTER XIX. Our Major Domo--Inspection of Troops--Prospect of Change--Prussian Bivouac--The Louvre--The Venus de Medici--The Laocoon and the Apollo--The Paintings--The Tuileries--The Gardens--The Palais Royal--Habitués of the Palais--Road to Malmaison--Malmaison--A Panic--A Farmhouse--Versailles--Sevres and St Cloud--Hôtel Dieu and Nôtre Dame--The Invalides--Models of Fortresses--A Sunday, 138 CHAPTER XX. My New Quarters--Their Desolate Aspect--First Night in them--Change of Abode--My New Residence--Ma’amselle Rose--A She-Dragon--Our Fare--The Villagers--The Maire and his Complaints--More Grievances--The Postmaster of St Denis--Insolence of the Villagers--The Allied Sovereigns--A Review--Difficulties--Order from Headquarters--A Complaint--A Visitor--Rascalities--The French Police--Pertinacity of my Persecutor--Church Reopened--Sunday in France--Review of Prussians--A Scene--A Craven--Our Artillery--Positions of Troops--Scenes of Battles--View from Montmartre--The Works on Montmartre--Belleville and Vincennes--Aspect of Country--Washerwomen--Village Gossip, 166 CHAPTER XXI. Sisters of Charity--New Messroom--A House-warming--The Bond Street of Paris--The Boulevards--Their Frequenters--Street- Beggars--Street-Vendors--Street-Scenes--News-Rooms--Open-Air Loungers--An Exquisite--A Parisian Restaurant--Waiters--Parisian Cookery--Paris by Night--Torment of Flies--Amicable Relations--The Peasantry--Again at Paris--A Russian Equipage--A Picturesque Coachman--A Russian Boy--Russian Soldiers--The Austrians, 206 CHAPTER XXII.