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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 135
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6.—Les Salons De Paris. By Madame Ancelo...
of a " salon . " Besides literary notabilities , there were Bourbon princes and princessesInfants and grandees of Spainprinces of
and JRussia ladies , Italy magnificentl , and Polan , y d , adorned English noblemen with those with hereditary historical , diamonds names ,
" which increase with every generation , and are only seen among the old aristocracy . " The corps diplomatique too appeared " enforce "
and rivalled the ladies in their resplendent display of jewellery ; the Vicomte himself blazing all over , and appearing on grand
occasions with no less than seventeen decorations . These assemblies Madame Ancelot would classify as " Soirees de
Vanite , _" and tinder the same category must be placed those of Madame _Recamier , -who at this latter period of her life figures as a
most determined lion-hunter . " When it suited her projects to attract to her circle some distinguished man ,
the she full would intention make acquaintance of course of dismissing with his them wife , his when children her ohject , his was frien attained ds , with . _ISTo trouble was thought too great ; there were dinner visitsjourneysthe most
door minute to her persevering intended attentions victim , courting , even to his the sister extremi -in-law ty , caj of oling taking , his a little house , dau next ghtand her
dious ers , approaches feeding being pet to pug obtain on g a ingerbread minister to nu occupy ts—the a object fauteui of l at all her these fireside insiopposite to that of Chateaubriand , at the parties of the Abbaye aux Bois . " ,
It was in 1840 that , in consequence of her success as a dramatic ¦ writer , the authoress became acquainted "with Madame Recamier
who was at that time turned of sixty years of age , and retaining little , traces of the dazzling beauty so renowned at the period of the
Directory , except unluckily the keen recollection of it . their by " double She received curtains company , that on every their day first from entrance four to the six , guests in apartments could scarcel so darkened y see
chamber way of , and a sick it was the . custom If to one speak chanced in the to lowest raise his tones voice , as above if in this the pitch , there was a person movement of any surprise that seemed to sayWho is this
illform bred person a part , " of ignorant it?—and of woe the manners to him who of our did superior not take society the hint , , and ! unworthy to
the presence " great Everything of man an . ug in If ly these he little began meetings cat to that feel was was bored always calculated by his sleep company and ing pre on - a , arranged he chair stroked b , y even the the side to cat the of ; and if his ennui to still hiher
bell-rope . " rose a gdegree , he playedj with the tassel of the The following anecdote , however , displays the great man under
a more pleasing aspect than that of the pose magnifique in which he inhaled incense from the worshippers at the Abbaye aux Bois . It
was his custom to retire to bed at nine o ' clock , and he would make Moise no excepti was to on be to broug this r ule even on the evening when his tragedy of
mi ¦¦ " ht I would think change I was anxiou nothing s about in my . the usual result habit of , " he said iece , " so in order I went that to no bed one at g my p ;
with the customary impatience hour the , arrival though , of to my say valet the truth whom , I I could had sen not t to sleep the , theatre and waited with time orders and to bring from me this an inferred exact account that at of all what , events took the place . I had to wait for a long
, I piece had been heard to the
Notices Of Books. 135
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 135
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/63/
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