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 Vigée Lebrun's Paintings [215]
Index [229]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Madame Vigée Lebrun and Her Daughter [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The Duchess d'Angoulême and Her Brother, the Dauphin [10]