Charles Kemble--His Daughter's Tragedy of "Francis the First"--Recollections of John Kemble--The Opera--_Count Ory_--Sir A. Barnard--Secret of Happiness--Visit to Mademoiselle Mars--Her Residence described--Memorial of her Theatrical Career--The Duchesse de la Force--Madame Grassini--Anecdote of her--Visit to Orsay--Its Situation--The Princesse de Croy--Hamlet of Palaiseau--Drama of _La Pie Voteuse_--Family of the Duc de Guiche--The Vaudeville Théâtre--Scribe's _Avant, Pendant, el Après_--Its Dangerous Tendency--French Ambition--Parisian Shopkeepers--Their Officious Conduct, 78. CHAPTER IX. Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay--French Politeness--Mr. D---- and Mr. T---- --Study of Shakespeare--Attractions of Mrs. T---- --Lady Charlotte Llndsay and the Misses Berry--Sir William Gell--Mr. and Mrs. Hare--Female Amiability--Shopping--Hints on Female Dress--Brilliancy of French Conversation--Mr. J. Strangways--A severe Trial--The Plague-spot--Miraculous Escape--Dinner given by Comte A. de Maussion--Goethe's _Faust_--Character of "Margaret"--The witty Mr. M---- --Lord Byron--French Quickness of Apprehension--_Sept Heures_--Character of Charlotte Corday--Degenerate Taste of the Parisians--Hasty Conclusions, 91. CHAPTER X. The celebrated Dr. P---- --Society of Medical Men--Dr. Guthrie--Requisites for a Surgeon--Celebrity and Merit--The Road to Fortune, as related by Dr. P---- --Successful Stratagem--Fancied Illness--Superfluity of _Embonpoint_--Mode of Treatment--Another Patient--The Doctor à-la-mode--Mr. P. C. Scarlett--Lord Erskine--Mr. H.B---- --Visit to the Théâtre Italien--Madame Malibran's "Desdemona"--Defect in her Singing--The Princesse Pauline Borghese--The Family of Napoleon--Particulars of the Duchesse d'Abrantes--The Luxembourg Palace and Gardens--A Loving Couple--Holiness of Marriage--Story of the Old Bachelor and his Crafty Housekeeper, 105. CHAPTER XI.