English Palaces -- And Scenery -- Suburban Princes -- Richmond Terrace -- An Eccentric Margravine -- The Charm of the Isle of Wight -- The Britons a Stolid Nation -- Their Indifference to Rain 192 CHAPTER XVIII. BONAPARTES AND BOURBONS. Back in Paris -- The Devotion of Mme. Grassini -- Capricious, Exacting Mme. Murat -- Aspects of Christian Warfare -- "Kill All Those People!" -- Louis XVIII. Enters the Capital -- The Barrenness of Napoleon's Victories -- His Successor's Attainments -- Bourbon Characteristics -- The Authoress Loses Her Husband, Daughter and Brother -- Conclusion 200 APPENDIX List of Madame Vigee Lebrun's Paintings 215 INDEX 229 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MADAME VIGEE LEBRUN AND HER DAUGHTER _Frontispiece_ Facing Page THE DUCHESS D'ANGOULEME AND HER BROTHER, THE DAUPHIN 10 MADAME VIGEE LEBRUN 16 Marked: "Virginia Lebrun, St. Luke's Gallery, Rome" PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHORESS 20 MARIE ANTOINETTE, DONE IN 1779 24 Madame Lebrun's First Portrait of the Queen, Destined for Presentation to the Emperor Joseph II. Marie Antoinette Ordered Two Copies, One for the Emperor of Russia and One for Herself PORTRAIT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HER CHILDREN 28 Known as "The Royal Family," Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1788, the Year Before the Outbreak of the Revolution MADAME ELISABETH, SISTER OF LOUIS XVI 30 THE DAUPHIN 32 Son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette MADAME LEBRUN, THE AUTHORESS, NEE ELISABETH VIGEE 34 PEACE BRINGING BACK PLENTY 36 Exhibited by Madame Lebrun at the French Royal Academy of Painting, on Her Election as a Member of That Institution MADAME VIGEE LEBRUN AND HER DAUGHTER 42 THE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE 50 THE BARONESS DE CRUSSOL 58 MARIE CAROLINE, WIFE OF FERDINAND IV. OF NAPLES 64 PRINCESS CHRISTINE, DAUGHTER OF FERDINAND IV. OF NAPLES 70 MARIE ANTOINETTE, QUEEN OF FRANCE 76 QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE 80 THE PRINCESS DE TALLEYRAND 90 ISABEL CZARTORYSKA 100 A Polish Noblewoman