Fatiguing Journey--Landau Accident--The Hôtel de la Terrasse, in the Rue de Rivoli--Six Years' Absence--The Duc and Duchesse de Guiche--Joy of Meeting--Fashion at Paris--Visit to Herhault's Temple of Fashion--Mademoiselle La Touche--Extravagant Charges--Caution to Husbands--A Word, also, to Wives--Visit to Madame Craufurd--Her prepossessing Appearance--House-hunting--Residence of the Maréchal Lobau--Review in the Champ-de-Mars--Splendid _Coup d'oeil_--The Marchioness de Loulé--Restrictions at Court--Accident to the Comte de Bourmont--Alarm of the Ladies--Charles the Tenth, the Dauphin, and the Dauphine--Melancholy Physiognomy of Charles the First--The Duchesse d'Angoulème--Her Trials and Endurance--French Love of Country--The Duchesse de Berri--Dinner at the Duchesse de Guiche's--William Lock--The Comte de l'Espérance de l'Aigle--His high breeding--The Opera--_Début_ of Taglioni--Her Poetical Style of Dancing--The Duc de Cazes--French and English Manners contrasted--Attentions to the Fair Sex in France--The Comtesses de Bellegarde--Character of the Duc de Gramont--Lady Barbara Craufurd--Count Valeski--Anger of the Maréchal Lobau--Defect in French Houses--The _Muette de Portici_--Noblet--An old _Danseuse_--Gaiety at Tivoli--Similarity in the Exterior of Parisian Ladies--A Quadrille Party--_Demi-toilette_--Late Tea-Party--Luxurious Chair--Delightful House in the Rue de Bourbon--Its costly Decorations--Its Interior described--The Princesse de la Moskowa--Sad Interview--Maréchal Ney, 32. CHAPTER VI. Custom of letting out Furniture--The Prince and Princesse Castelcicala--Lady Hawarden--Lady Combermere--Tone of Society at Paris--Attentions paid by Young Men to Old Ladies--Flirtations at Paris--Ceremonious Decorum--Comic Charles de Mornay--Parisian Upholsterers--Rich Furniture--Lord Yarmouth--Elegant Suite of Apartments--Charles Mills--Warm Affections between Relatives in France, 56. CHAPTER VII. Domestic Arrangements--Changes in Young People--Pleasant Recollections--Lord Lilford--The Marquis and Marquise Zamperi--Comte Alexander de Laborde--The Marquis de Mornay--Mode of passing the Time--Evening Visits in France--Dinner-party--The Duc Dalberg--The Duc de Mouchy--Party to Montmorency--Rousseau's Hermitage--Sensibility, a Characteristic of Genius--Solitude--Letter of Rousseau to Voltaire--Church, of Montmorency--Baths at Enghien--The Comtesse de Gand--Colonel E. Lygon--The Marquis de Dreux-Brezé--Contrast between him and the Duc de Talleyrand--The Baron and Baroness de Ruysch--Mr. Douglas Kinnaird--Sir Francis Burdett--Colonel Leicester Stanhope--The Marquis Palavicini--Charms of Italian Women--Lords Darnley and Charlemont--Mr. Young, the Tragedian--Lord Lansdowne--Estimate of his Character--Sir Robert Peel--Respect for the Memory of Sir William Drummond--Lady Drummond--"Vivian Grey"--Mr. Standish--Intermarriages between the French and the English, 64. CHAPTER VIII.