A multitude of the _emigré_ nobles returned with Louis XVIII, bringing with them the manners and customs of the _ancien régime_, which the Parisians found singularly antiquated and absurd, and gave these reactionaries the title of _Voltigeurs de Louis XVI_. The science of good cooking, however, which had been somewhat neglected by society during the Empire, suddenly took on a much greater importance--as was its due. The lady of the higher aristocracy, taking her déjeuner so comfortably with her lapdog, in the plate which we have reproduced from the _Bon Genre_, is supposed to be the Princesse de Vaudémont. A curious detail of the social life of the Romantic period of the Restoration was the fashion of _keepsakes_ and _annuaires illustrés_, which came from England, and which flourished from 1825 to 1845. These costly little books intended for presentation, richly bound, and illustrated with small steel engravings, generally taken from the English "keepsakes," bore various titles: _L'Album brittanique_, _L'Amaranthe, Annales romantiques_, _Le Camée_, _La Corbeille d'or_, _L'Eglantine_, _L'Élite_, _Livre des salons_, etc. The greatest names among the writers of the _Romantisme_ may be found among the contributors to these publications,--Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Alfred de Musset, A. de Vigny, Méry, Gozlan, and others. The _bourgeois_ monarchy of Louis-Philippe was made the object of a storm of ridicule on the part of the Parisian wits and caricaturists from which it has never entirely recovered. The "umbrella" of the Orléans family, which the ribald press of that day made the emblem of their royalty, still figures in the lampoons addressed to the present pretender. The caricature of the royal physiognomy as a pear is one of the most famous in history. Louis-Philippe wore his hair piled in a species of pyramid over his forehead, which lent plausibility to this defamation; this pyramid was known as the _toupet_, and was naturally largely imitated; those whose locks were not sufficient in quantity for the purpose, purchased false ones. Whiskers were also in fashion, but not moustaches, and no official functionary was permitted to wear hair under his nose. The _Saint-Simoniens_ and those who entitled themselves _Jeune France_ alone wore the hair long and pendant, and the toupet gradually lowered its altitude and finally disappeared, to give place to hair smoothed down and parted strongly on one side, generally the left.