[25] Rogers, Italy.
[26] A. F. 1539–1543.
[27] The return coach left Paris at 6 A.M., but from July 1802 there was also a berline with six places which started at 4 P.M., travelled all night, and arrived as soon as the morning coach.
[28] Practical Guide ... London to Paris. R. Phillips, 1802.
[29] Mrs. F. E. King, Tour in France.
[30] In 1814, according to Kirwan, the fishwives no longer carried passengers on their backs, but wading through the water tugged or pushed small boats ashore. But Richard Bernard Boyle was carried ashore by three men, one holding each leg and the third pushing behind.
[31] Also his biographer. Trotter died in poverty in 1818, aged forty-three.
[32] Her age is given in the police register as sixty-three, but as she died in 1842 at the age of ninety-two, she was really only fifty-two. Fox’s age, on the other hand, is given as fifty, whereas it was fifty-three. The ages in the register seem sometimes to be hotel-keepers’ random guesses.
[33] Ashton, English Caricature on Napoleon.
[34] Adair, Mission to the Court of Vienna, p. 505.