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.