[223] This was not the only case of unaccountable desertion. Edmund Wilson, born in Italy, was left behind in France at the age of three years by his English parents—there was an Andrew Wilson, an artist, a visitor, but surely he was not the delinquent—and was adopted by the Comtesse d’Aumale. He became a prominent liberal Catholic, and from 1829 to 1831 contributed to the Correspondant till it was superseded by the more advanced Avenir of Lamennais. It was, however, revived in 1842 and still exists. For seventeen years ‘le sage Wilson,’ as he was called on account of his habitual circumspection, presided over Sunday gatherings of Parisian apprentices. He was unmarried, a sort of lay monk, was very charitable, and was never naturalised in France. He died in 1862.
[224] A. F. iv. 1498–1499.
[225] F. 7, 2250.
[226] Her use of strong language earned her the nickname of Billingsgate.
[227] They then saw the royal family dining in public at the Tuileries.
[228] F. 7, 3716.
[229] F. 7, 3744.
[230] F. 7, 3750.
[231] F. 7, 3744.
[232] F. 7, 3779.