[16] If Lady Blessington wrote this in good faith, “our Count” must have deceived her grossly as to the amount of his debts.
[17] Bulwer was at this time chargé d’affaires at Paris.
[18] Son of Lord Tankerville.
[19] Did he love D’Orsay?
[20] The Duke de Guiche, son of D’Orsay’s sister, had been attacked by a wild boar while out hunting.
[21] The inaccuracies here are obvious.
[22] Now (1910) no more.
[23] Better known to us now as Bernal Osborne.
[24] Frederick Henry Yates, actor and theatrical manager. Father of Edmund Yates.
[25] Probably the founder of the famous menagerie.