The clever hint at departure evidently had the desired effect, for in the following February, 1831, Edouart is still at Edinburgh, “his rooms thronged with visitors since his threatened departure. Six hundred likenesses in a fortnight, and declining to take new ones till the orders given by the first families are executed.” Five thousand duplicates are now on view, and his books are exhibited at Holyrood Palace, where they are much approved of by the Royal Family. It was at the end of 1830 that Charles X., ex-king of France, and suite, arrived at Holyrood, and though Edouart acknowledges “a feeling of ill-will towards the Bourbon family is still lingering in my bosom, remembering—as I did—the losses I suffered in consequence of their restoration to the throne of France,” he attended, when requested in person by the Duchesse de Berri. He found “His Majesty pacing up and down, and the Duchesse presented me, reminding the King that I was a Frenchman. He seemed pleased and affable.” The whole Royal Family, attended by the suite, nearly forty in number, formed a circle, in the centre of which Edouart cut his first paper portrait of Charles X. “By mistake,” he says, “I took paper of four folds, in place of one of two, and, as I had begun, so I cut out the likeness. As soon as I had finished it the little Prince (the Duke of Bordeaux) took one, Mademoiselle, his sister, took another, the Duchesse de Berri another.” Edouart cut the likenesses that evening of the Duke d’Angoulême, the Duchesse d’Angoulême, the Duchesse de Berri, Mademoiselle Louise Marie, the Duke de Bordeaux, the Cardinal de Latil, and many of the suite. After this Edouart declares that he “was a daily visitor at Holyrood, and my exhibition was often honoured by Royalty.” The Duke de Bordeaux declared that if Edouart would become one of his suite, he should be called the Black Knight. Two of the Holyrood portraits by Edouart were exhibited at the Amateur Art Society’s Exhibition in 1902, by Miss Head. They were thus described in the Catalogue:— “119. Duchesse de Berri and her children (Henry V. and the Duchesse de Parma) at Holyrood, by Edouart.” “120. Henry V. and the Duchesse de Parma as children at Holyrood.” In the recently discovered folios which belonged to Edouart himself, and which serve as an invaluable record of the entourage of Charles X. at Holyrood, very many of these likenesses appear; most of them have the original autograph of the sitter. From the wonderfully interesting groups of shadows we see the _vie intime_ of the exiled king. He is surrounded by his children, his chamberlains and equerries, intimate friends, physicians (for body and soul). Even L’Abbé Focart, Confesseur du Roi, figures amongst them; and visitors to Holyrood, such as the Baron de Size and the Baron de Sepmanville, are included; besides the dogs and horses, the ponies of the children, and the toys and playthings with which they amused themselves in those days of exile.