_Bonaparte.--Artillery.--Mr. Pitt.--Newspapers.--Archbishop of Paris.--Consular Colours.--Religion.--Consular Conversion.--Madame Bonaparte.--Consular Modesty.--Separate Beds.--A Country Scene.--Connubial Affection.--Female Bravery._ p. 113. CHAPTER XIII. _Breakfast.--Warmth of French Expression.--Rustic Eloquence.--Curious Cause assigned for the late extraordinary Frost.--Madame R----.--Paul I.--Tivoli.--Frescati._ p. 128. CHAPTER XIV. _Convent of blue Nuns.--Duchesse de Biron.--The bloody Key.--Courts of Justice.--Public Library.--Gobelines.--Miss Linwood.--Garden of Plants.--French Accommodation.--Boot Cleaners.--Cat and Dog Shearers.--Monsieur S---- and Family._ p. 140. CHAPTER XV. _Civility of a Sentinel.--The Hall of the Legislative Assembly.--British House of Commons.--Captain Bergeret.--The Temple.--Sir Sydney Smith's Escape.--Colonel Phillipeaux._ p. 150 CHAPTER XVI. _A fashionable Poem.--Frere Rickart.--Religion.--Hotel des Invalides.--Hall of Victory.--Enemies' Colours.--Sulky Appearance of an English Jack and Ensign.--Indecorum.--The aged Captain.--Military School.--Champ de Mars.--The Garden of Mousseaux._ p. 163. CHAPTER XVII. _Curious Method of raising Hay.--Lucien Bonaparte's Hotel.--Opera.--Consular Box.--Madame Bonaparte's Box.--Feydeau Theatre.--Belle Vue.--Versailles.--The Palace of the Petit Trianon.--The Grounds._ p. 175. CHAPTER XVIII. _Bonaparte's Talents in Finance.--Garrick and the Madman.--Palace of the Conservative Senate.--Process of transferring Oil Paintings from Wood to Canvas.--The Dinner Knife.--Commodities.--Hall of the National Convention.--The Minister Talleyrand's Levee._ p. 188. CHAPTER XIX. _The College of the Deaf and Dumb.--Abbe Sicard.--Bagatelle.--Police.--Grand National Library.--Bonaparte's Review.--Tambour Major of the Consular Regiment.--Restoration of Artillery Colours._ p. 201. CHAPTER XX. _Abbe Sieyes.--Consular Procession to the Council Chamber.--10th of August, 1792.--Celerity of Mons. Fouche's Information.--The two Lovers.--Cabinet of Mons. le Grand.--Self-prescribing Physician.--Bust of Robespierre.--His Lodgings.--Corn Hall.--Museum of French Monuments.--Revolutionary Agent.--Lovers of married Women._ p. 214. CHAPTER XXI. _Picturesque and Mechanical Theatre.--Filtrating and purifying Vases.--English Jacobins.--A Farewell.--Messagerie.--MalMaison.--Forest of Evreux.--Lower Normandy.--Caen.--Hon. T. Erskine.--A Ball.--The Keeper of the Sachristy of Notre Dame.--The two blind Beggars.--Ennui.--St. Lo.--Cherbourg.--England._ p. 230. GENERAL REMARKS. p. 252. [Illustration: _Torr Abbey_] THE STRANGER IN FRANCE CHAPTER I.