achieved triumph. It was as a dandy he lived and as a dandy that he is
immortal. Such men as he, if indeed there are others with his genius,
should—as we have said—be pensioned by the State, should be set above the
carking cares of questions of want of pounds—shillings and pence do not
trouble them; they should be cherished and sustained as rarely-gifted and
rare beings, to whom life presents not any serious problems, and to whom
life is a space of time only too brief for all the pleasures which should
be crowded into it. “Life’s fitful fever” should be kept apart from such
sunny souls, and our only regret should be that there are so few of them.
There are mouldy-minded people who put out the finger of scorn at
D’Orsay. Is it not the truth that they are jealous of him, and that at
the bottom of their hearts there is a muttered prayer: “I would thank God
if He _had_ made _me_ such a man”?
FOOTNOTES
[1] De Guiche. See p. 35.
[2] D’Orsay was but twenty at the time of his first appearance in London.
[3] _Cf._ Sterne, _A Sentimental Journey_, ch. i. l. 1.
[4] Sir David Wilkie.
[5] His unsuccessful three-volume novel.
[6] If any, only a temporary estrangement.
[7] Created Baron Dalling and Bulwer in 1871.
[8] _France, Social, Literary and Political._
[9] He died in 1839.
[10] See page 202.
[11] Referring to his devoted wife.
[12] The first mention of His Imperial Majesty Napoleon III., who was an
_habitué_ of Gore House, and well known to all who frequented it. The
A.D.C. was M. de Persigny, who accompanied the Prince everywhere.—[_Note
in Greville._]
[13] Lady Blessington had a good deal more talent and reading than Mr
Greville gives her credit for. Several years of her agitated life were
spent in the country in complete retirement, where she had no resources
to fall back upon but a good library. She was well read in the best
English authors, and even in translations of the Classics; but the talent
to which she owed her success in society was her incomparable tact and
skill in drawing out the best qualities of her guests. What Mr Greville
terms her vulgarity might be more charitably described as her Irish
cordiality and _bonhomie_. I have no doubt that her _Conversations with
Lord Byron_ were entirely written by herself.—[_Note in Greville._]
[14] Forster.
[15] Possibly Lady Canterbury.
[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.
[26] The first is meant.
[27] _Alias_ Sloman, a well-known catchpole.
[28] A shy cock being a “Sunday” man, such as D’Orsay.
[29] M.P. for Southwark.
[30] At Crockford’s.
[31] In 1880. He was born in 1796.
[32] She never was there. Seamore Place is meant.
[33] Apparently they had been pawned.
[34] See _Infra_.
[35] _I.e._ in Paris.
[36] Of Lady Blessington.
[37] _Vide supra_, p. 225.
[38] The well-known poet and lyricist.
[39] An amazing version of D’Orsay’s death has recently been made public;
namely, that in addition to the disease of the spine, the Count suffered
also from a carbuncle, which “was a euphemism for a bullet aimed at the
Emperor as they were walking together in the gardens of the Elysée.”
Index
A
Abinger, Lord, 177
Adam, fig-leaf breeches, ix
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 191
Alcibiades, xi
Allen, Lord, 124, 140, 220
Alvanley, Lord, 125
Anglesey, Lord, 189
Anson, George, 151
Auckland, Lord, 220
Auldjo, John, 169, 170
Avignon, 46
Avillon, letter to Lady Blessington, 282
B
Ball, Hughes, 304
Ballantine, Sergeant, 204
” on _Star and Garter_, 156
Balmoral brose, 130
Baring, Hon. Francis, 203
Basanville, Comtesse de, 121
Bates, Joshua, 203
Beaconsfield, Lord, 131, 145, 186, 190
” as a dandy, xi, xii, 130, 193, 194
” at Lady Blessington’s, 140
” _Endymion_: Colonel Albert St Barbe, 207
” _Endymion_, quoted, 174
” _Henrietta Temple_, Count Alcibiades de Mirabel, 256 _seq._
” Letter to Lady Blessington, 280
” Meets D’Orsay, 142
” on Louis Napoleon, 201
” on party at Gore House, 172
” _Vivian Grey_, xii, 105, 140, 142, 193
Beauharnois, Eugène, 200
Beckford, 141
Belancour, de, 172
Belvedere Palazzo, 53, 54, 58, 68
” Routine at, 59
Belvedere, Prince and Princess, 53
Berkeley, Grantley, on D’Orsay, 37, 133, 308
” on Gore House, 157
Berry, Misses, 102
Blakeney, Sir Edward, 28
Blessington, Charles John (Viscount and Baron Mountjoy), Earl of, 28,
65, 68, 75
” Attitude towards D’Orsay, 45
” Purchased the _Bolivar_, 52
” _Reginald de Vavasour_, 54
” Sketch of, 29 _seq._
” Will, 69, 70, 245
Blessington, Lord and Lady, tour abroad, 42 _seq._
Blessington, Marguerite Power, (Mrs Farmer), Lady, 24 _seq._
” Anxieties, 270, 272, 277
” at Gore House, 157 _seq._
” _Book of Beauty_, 271
” Characteristics, 274, 275, 276
” conversation, 138, 161, 178
” _Conversations with Lord Byron_, 51, 177_n_, 179, 271
” Lady, Contributor to _Daily News_, 271
” Death, 88, 287
” Epitaphs, 288
” Finances, 270 _seq._, 280
” in Paris, 81 _seq._, 284
” in Rome, 76 _seq._
” in Seamore Place, 101 _seq._
” Journal, 48, 50
” Duchesse de Guiche, 71, 73
” on Queen Hortense, 197
” _Keepsake_, 271
” Leaves Gore House for Paris, 280, 283
” Letter to Henry Bulwer, 210
” Letter to Forster, 264, 280
” Letters to Landor, 84, 90, 221
” Mausoleum, 287, 290
” Meets Byron, 49, 50
” Personal appearance, 31, 137
” on D’Israeli, sen. and jun., 105
” on General d’Orsay, 16
” on Countess Guiccioli, 163
” on Luttrell’s conversation, 93
” on opera, 144
” on Pompeii, 57
” on Portrait of Byron, 165
” on Waltzing, 46
” _Salon_ in London, 32, 33, 137, 160
” Writings, 271
_Bolivar_, The, 52, 60, 68
Bonaparte, Jérôme, 206, 293
Bradenham, 174
British in Rome, 77
Brookfield, Charles, 124
Brougham, Lord, 33, 158, 176, 183, 185, 188, 252, 293
” Report of his death, 183
Brown, Major, 30
Brown, Mrs (Lady Mountjoy), 30
Brummel, Beau, xii
Buckingham, Duke of, xi
Buller, Charles, 176, 180, 182, 260
Bultera, Prince and Princess, 66
Bulwer, Sir Henry, Baron Dalling and Bulwer, 108, 210, 215
” _France, Social, Literary and Political_, 105
” Letters to Lady Blessington, 213, 284
Burdett, Sir Francis, 82, 220
Bush, John, 124
Byng, “Poodle,” 201, 202
Byron, Lady, 163
Byron, Lord, 106, 107, 145, 164, 165, 177, 223
” at Genoa, 48, 49
” Charmed with D’Orsay, 51
” _Don Juan_, quoted, 38
” Letter to Lord Blessington, 39
” Letter to Count d’Orsay, 40
” on Lord Blessington, 30
” on Count d’Orsay, 38
” on meeting Lady Blessington, 51
” on Rogers, 93
” Yacht _Bolivar_, 52
C
Cambridge, Duke of, 184
Campbell, Lord, 251
Campbell, T., 102
Canning, George, 33
Canterbury, Lady, 169, 170, 239
Canterbury, Lord, 169, 170, 177, 261
Carhampton, Lord, 94
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 187
” on D’Orsay, 267
Carlyle, John, 187
Carlyle, Thomas, 166
” on D’Orsay, 187, 188
” on Landor, 219
Caroline, Queen, 56
Castlereagh, Lord, 33, 140
Catholic Emancipation Act, 88
Cattermole, George, 264
Cavaliers as dandies, xi
Centolla, Princess, 66
Chalon, portrait of Lady Blessington, 282
Chambourcy, 287, 290, 304
Chambre, Major, _Recollections of West-End Life_, 150
Charles II., xi, xii
Chesterfield, Earl of, 118, 125, 151, 152, 158, 189, 241, 261
” Dinner to, 127
Chesterfield House, 266
Chesterfield, Lady, 266
Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 143, 166, 176, 183, 187, 261
Clésinger and D’Orsay, 305
Clonmel, 25, 26, 28
Cole, Sir Henry, story of D’Orsay, 231
Coleridge, S. T., 223
Colman, George, 102
Congreve, high priest of dandyism, xii
Conversation a lost art, 135
Cooper, Anne, on Lady Blessington, 276
Cotton, Sir St Vincent, 151
Cotton, Sir Willoughby, 134, 220
Courvoisier, F. B., murdered Lord William Russell, 262
Craven, Keppel, on Sir W. Gell’s last days, 78
Crawford, Mme. (Mrs O’Sullivan), 16, 17, 83, 84, 93
” Fond of her grandson, 18
Crean, Christopher, 155
Creighton, Commodore, 106
Crockford’s “Palace of Fortune”, 148 _seq._
” Play-room, 151
Cunningham, Peter, on white-bait, 148
Curtis, Lady, 102
D
Damer, Colonel, 150
Dancing, 46
” Taglioni’s, 86, 87
Dandies, definition of, xiii
” Elizabethan, xii
” Gathering, 172
” in history, xi
” Psychology, xii
” “a public benefactor,” 103
” Three, 193
Dandyism, ix _seq._
” History, ix, x
” Literature, varied, xi
” of D’Orsay and Disraeli, 140
” Universities and, x
D’Angoulême, Duc, 45
D’Arlincourt, Victor Prévost, Viscount, 131
Deacon, Captain, 106
De Contades, on D’Orsay and sheriff’s officer, 278
Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, 266
Dickens, Charles, 145, 261
” as a dandy, xii, 192, 193
” at Gore House, 265
” _Bleak House_, Lawrence Boythorn, 218
” Friendship with D’Orsay, 191
” _Household Words_ on D’Orsay, 306
” in Paris, 293
” Invitation to Macready, 264
” Letters to Lady Blessington, 192
” on D’Orsay, 133
Dieppe, 302
Dinners, English, 127
Dino, Duchesse de, story of D’Orsay, 134
Disraeli, Benjamin, _see_ Beaconsfield, Lord
D’Israeli, Isaac, 105, 188
Donzelli, 144
D’Orsay, Count Albert, 16, 82
D’Orsay, Comtesse Albert, 82, 99
D’Orsay, Countess Alfred, 70, 74, 82, 102, 146, 236, 245
” Leaves Seamore Place, 103, 267_n_
D’Orsay, Eléanore, Baroness de Franquemont, Comtesse, 16
D’Orsay, Gédéon Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Count, xii
” as artist, 225 _seq._
” as a dandy, 194, 235, 314
” as _gourmet_, 126
” as leader of fashion, 116 _seq._
” as a wit, 123 _seq._
” Birth, 15
” Bonapartism, 20, _see_ Relations with Louis Napoleon
” Bust of Lady Blessington, 234
” ” Emile de Girardin, 233
” ” Lamartine, 225, 292
” ” Duke of Wellington, 230, 231
” Characteristics, 21, 23, 51, 60, 145, 162, 185, 189, 195, 253, 254,
255, 259, 265, 294, 309, 310
” Connection with Lady Blessington, 45 _et passim_
” Death, 304, 310
” Dinner in Paris, 293
” Director of Fine Arts, 304
” Finances, 132, 162, 212, 215, 226, 245 _seq._, 270, 278
” Friends, 77, 145, 188, 189 _seq._, 260, 261, 263
” Gambling, 148, 151, 152
” Grief at Lady Blessington’s death, 289, 290
” Horsemanship, 20, 118, 195
” Illness, 302
” in London, (1821), 35 _seq._
” in Paris, 18, 279, 284 _seq._
” Invents paletot, 120
” Journal, 38, 39, 40, 41, 235
” ” on Lord Holland, 137
” Leaves London for Paris, 279
” Letters, 235 _seq._
” ” to Duncombe, 251, 252
” ” Fonblanque, 205
” ” Forster, 233, 237 _seq._, 291
” ” Hayward, 294, 300, 301
” ” Landor, 85, 98, 236, 237
” ” R. J. Lane, 228, 290
” ” Madden, 229
” ” C. Mathews, 240
” ” Dr. Quin, 242, 244, 289
” Marriage, 74
” Monument, 304
” Monument to Lady Blessington, 287, 290
” on _Coup d’État_, 208, 299, 301
” Painting of Duchesse de Grammont, 220
” Personal appearance, 20, 116
” Portrait drawings, 226
” Portrait of Prince Borghese, 236
” Portrait of Byron, 165
” Portrait of Duke of Wellington, 232, 282
” Provision for, 70, 71, 75, 245
” Qualities, 313
” Railway scheme, 238, 239
” Relations with Louis Napoleon, 197, 202, 204, 208, 210, 211, 285
” Residence in London, 101 _seq._
” Separated from his wife, 103, 246
” Sledge, 96
” Statue of Napoleon I., 228
” Statuette of O’Connell, 233
” Statuettes of Duke of Wellington, 229, 230
” Stories of, 121 _seq._, 278
” Studio, 159
” Visits Disraelis, 174
Douro, Lord, 158
Drummond, Sir William, 67
Duchesnois, Mlle., 19
Dudley, Lord, 67
Duelling, 101, 109
Dufferin, Lord, 293
Dumas, Alexandre, 293
Dumas, Alexandre _fils_, 304
Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby, 151, 186, 250, 253
Dundas of Carron, 293
Dupont, Pierre, 307
Durham, Earl, 158, 176, 177, 179, 180, 260
Duval, Claude, xi
E
Ellis, Joseph, 155
Elphinstone, Lord, 140
_English Spy_, 249
Esterhazy, Prince, 172
Eugénie, Empress, 196
Euphuism, xi
_Every Man in his Humour_, 263
F
Fairlie, Mr and Mrs, 169, 170
Farmer, Captain Maurice St Leger, 26, 27, 28, 31
Feist, Moritz, 117
Florence, 53, 69, 222
Fonblanque, Albany, editor of _Examiner_, 123, 139, 140, 161, 205,
261, 291
” Letter to Lady Blessington, 185
Fonblanque, Edward Barrington de, 126, 261
Forester, Charles, 125
Forli, Duchess di, 66
Forster, John, 145, 166, 168, 188, 204, 260, 261, 264
” at Gore House, 265
” on Landor, 218
” Sub-editor of _Examiner_, 176
Funchal, Count, 106
G
Gardiner, Lady Harriet Anne Frances, Comtesse d’Orsay, 30.
_See_ also d’Orsay, Comtesse Alfred
Gardiner, Luke Wellington (Viscount Mountjoy), 28, 30
” Death, 69
Gardiner, Lady Mary, 71
Gastronomy, French, 294
Gazes, Duc de, 86
Gell, Sir William, 56, 57, 66, 166
” Death, 78
” Letter to Lady Blessington, 79
Genoa, 38, 48, 69
Georges, Mme., 19
Girardin, Emile de, 293, 304
” on D’Orsay’s death, 307
Goldsmith, Oliver, 33
Gore House, 157 _seq._
” Novelists at, 190, 191
” Sale at, 282
” Sunset of its glories, 270
Grammont, Count Alfred de, 304
Grammont, Duc de, 19, 35, 84, 220
Grammont, Duc et Duchesse de, 304
Grammont, Duc et Duchesse de Caderousse, 46
Grattan, advice to his son, 110
Greville, Charles, 94, 180, 261
” at Gore House, 175, 176
” on Blessington and D’Orsay, 45
Greville, Charles, on Lady Blessington, 177
” on D’Orsay, 45, 122
” on D’Orsay’s art work, 159
” on Lord Douro, 158
” on Sir William Gell, 56
” on _Richelieu_, 190
Greville, Henry, “Diary,” quoted, 94
” on Taglioni’s dancing, 87
Gronow, 117
” on Count d’Orsay, 36, 123, 304
” on Duc de Guiche, 35
Grosvenor, Hon. R., 66
Gudin, Theodore, 292
Guiccioli, Countess, 106, 107, 114, 144, 162, 163, 165
Guiche, Duc de, 19, 35, 71, 75, 81, 93, 220, 224_n_, 245.
_See_ also Grammont, Duc de
Guiche, Duc and Duchesse de, jun., 286
Guiche, Ida, Duchesse de, 19, 35, 36, 71, 81
Guildford, Lord, 87
Guizot, M., 214
H
Hall, S. C., 261
Hall, Mrs S. C., on Lady Blessington, 274, 275
Hallam, Henry, _Middle Ages_, 78
Ham fortress, 201, 204, 207
Hatherston, Lord, 189
Hawes, Mr, 252
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 159, 188
” on D’Orsay, 233
Hayward, Abraham, 119
” in Paris, 293
” on English dinners, 127
Heath, publisher, death, 271
Heathcote, Sir T., 34
Herschel, Sir John, 57
Hertford, Lord, 282, 283
Hobhouse, Sir John Cam, 165
Holland House _salon_, 33, 136
Holland, Lady, 136, 137
Holland, Lord, 137
Honey, Mrs, 241
Horsemanship, 118
Hortense, Queen of Holland (Duchesse de St Leu), 197 _seq._
” Diamonds, 199
Houssaye, Arsène, on d’Orsay, 297
Hugo, Victor, 141, 291
Hunt, Leigh, 107, 163
I
Irving, Washington, 33
J
Jeffrey, Lord, 268
Jekyll, Joseph, 33, 34
” on quinine, 243
” on Seamore House, 102
Jenkins, Captain Thomas, 28, 31
Jerdan, William, 261;
_Autobiography_, 271
” on J. Jekyll, 34
Jerrold, Douglas, 264
Josephine, Empress, 199
Joy now a stranger, ix
Julien le Jeune de Paris, _Mes Chagrins_, 111 _seq._
K
Kemble, Charles, 87
Kemble, Fanny, _Francis the First_, 87
Kemble, John, 33, 87
Kenney, James, 169, 171
Kildare, 28
Knebworth, 239
L
_La Presse_, on D’Orsay as artist, 225
Lablache, facial expression of thunderstorm, 263
Lafitte, Charles, 140, 304
Lamartine, 145, 291, 293
Lamb, Charles, 222
” on plays, 311
Lamington, Lord, on D’Orsay, 154, 293
Landor, Walter Savage, 69, 78, 80, 84, 85, 125, 145, 188, 204,
216 _seq._
” Autobiography, 216
” epitaph on Lady Blessington, 288
” Letters to Lady Blessington, 88, 89, 208, 220, 222
” on Lady Blessington, 65
” on D’Orsay’s death, 88, 89, 306
” on Duc de Guiche, 35
” Visits to Gore House, 166, 167, 219, 220
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 158, 261
Lane, Richard, 210
Lane, Richard James, on D’Orsay’s sketches, 227
Laval, Montmorenci, Duc de, 77
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 33, 34, 87
” Portrait of Lady Blessington, 282
” Portrait of Dauphin, 97
Leech, John, 264
Lennox, Lord William Pitt, 114, 124
” on D’Orsay, 18, 19
Léon, Count, 202
Lespare, Duke de, 304
Leveson Gore, Hon. F., on D’Orsay, 266
Lewis, C., 251
Lichfield, Lord, 151
Lillers, Marquis de, 82
Lind, Jenny, 188
Liston, 261
Liszt, 261
London in 1830, 100
Louis XIV., 43
Louis XV., 43
Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, 197
Louis Philippe, 204, 208
Lover, Samuel, 143;
_Handy Andy_, 144
Luttrell, 93, 94, 95
Lyly, a literary dandy, xi
Lyndhurst, Lord, 94, 142, 143, 145, 173, 177, 185, 188, 253
Lytton, Lord (Sir Ed. Bulwer), 104, 108, 139, 142, 145, 260, 291
” on Sir W. Gell, 79
” on Gore House, 158, 161, 173, 176, 186, 188
” _Money_, 189
” _Pelham_, xii
” _Richelieu_, 190
M
Macaulay, Lord, 136
Maclise, Daniel, 238, 291
Macready, 169, 176, 188, 189, 261, 264, 291
” as actor and man, 224
” Diary on D’Orsay 260
” Letter to Lady Blessington, 170
” on D’Orsay’s death 306
” on _Richelieu_, 190
Madden, Richard Robert, 62, 64, 112
” on Disraeli, 140, 142
” on Comtesse Albert d’Orsay, 99
” on Comtesse d’Orsay, 74
” on D’Orsay’s _bons mots_, 126
” on D’Orsay’s extravagance, 253
” on D’Orsay’s fascination for children, 259
” on Gore House, 161, 165, 265
” on Napoleon III., 206, 210
” Visits D’Orsay, 302
Malibran, 144
Malmesbury, Lord, on Louis Napoleon, 200
Marc Antony, xi
Marriott, Captain, 176
Marryat, Captain, 191, 261
Mars, Mlle., 19
Mathews, Charles James, 55 _seq._, 93
” on D’Orsay, 58
” on Palazzo Belvedere, 59
” Quarrel with D’Orsay, 60 _seq._
Mathews, sen., 33, 34, 55, 92, 93
Mathias, Thomas James, _Pursuits of Literature_, 66
Meredith, George, x
Mignet, M., 95
Milligan, James, 67
Mills, John, 152
Milnes, Monckton, 261
Minton, Mr, 231, 232
Montaubon, Count de, 304
Montgomery, Alfred, 183, 185
Montholon, Count, 202
Moore, Tom, 33, 38, 43, 48, 94, 136, 177
” at Seamore Place, 139
” on duelling, 109, 110
” on Sir William Gell, 56
” Singing, 110
_Morning Chronicle_ on D’Orsay’s statuette of Duke of Wellington, 230
Moskowa, Prince of, 140
Mountford, Lord, 101
Murray, Captain, 26
N
Naples, 53 _seq._, 69
Napoleon I., on Albert, Count d’Orsay, 16
Napoleon III., Louis Napoleon, 186, 195 _seq._, 205, 285
” at Gore House, 176_n_
” at Seamore Place, 114, 115
” Descent upon France, 200
” Projected duel with Léon, 115, 202
” Sketch of, 196
Napoleon, Prince, 293, 304
_New Monthly Magazine_, on D’Orsay, 234
Ney, Marshal, 82
Nicholson, T. H., 230
Ninon de l’Enclos, 17
Normandy, Lord, 261
Nugent, Lord, 201, 202
O
O’Connell, Dan, 108, 110, 111
Opera, 143, 144
Osborne, Bernal, 233, 288
Ossulton, Lord, 220
Ossuna, Duke of, 172, 173
P
Paget, Sir A., 184
Pahlen, Count, 139
Paletot invented, 120
Paris in 1815, 18
Paris, Lord Blessington’s house in, 82
Parquin, Colonel, 202, 203
Pasta, 144
Patmore, on D’Orsay, 118
Payne, George, 151
Pembroke, Lord, 130, 197, 219, 220
Perlet in _Le Comédien d’Etampes_, 19
Perron, _Chef_, 293
Persigny, 201
Phillips, Catalogue of Sale at Gore House, 282
Phipps, General, 102
Piazzi, astronomer, 67
Pisa, 71
Planché, James Robinson, 189, 261, 262
” on Lablache, 263
” on Louis Napoleon, 201
Pompeii, 57
Poniatowsky, Prince, 172
Ponsonby, John, 139
Powell, Mr, 124
Power, Edward, 24
Power, Ellen, 24, 25
Power, Ellen and Margaret, 158, 192, 283, 291, 302
Power, Margaret, 219, 220
” Account of Lady Blessington’s death, 285
” Account of Sarcophagus, 288
” Letter to Madden, 289
Power, Marguerite, _see_ Blessington, Lady
Power, Mary Anne, Comtesse de St Marsault, 24, 42, 43, 54, 96
Power, Michael, 24
Power, Robert, 24, 75, 245
Procter, “Barry Cornwall,” 169, 170
” Epitaph on Lady Blessington, 288
Pugin, Augustus, 55
_Punch_, “The Mrs Caudle of the House of Lords,” 185
Puritans, xi
Purves, Mr and Mrs, 170
Q
_Quarterly Review_, English dinners, 127
Quin, Dr, 112, 113, 114, 243, 261, 283, 310
R
Rachel, in _Phèdre_, 298
Raikes, Tom, 123
Ratcliffe, Lt.-Colonel, 202, 203
Redding, Cyrus, on Lady Blessington, 90
Reeve, Henry, 183, 184, 185
” on Countess Guiccioli, 163
” Gore House, 167
Revolution, 1830, 96
Reynolds, Frederick Mansell, 169, 170
Ritchie, Lady, on D’Orsay, 182
Robespierre, 112
Robinson, Crabb, 65, 143
Rocco Romano, Duc di, 67
Rogers, S., 33, 93, 95, 102
” Attitude towards Byron, 94
Rome, 53, 69, 76 _seq._
Rosslyn, Lord, 88
Rothschild, Antony, 274
Rotival, _Chef_, 293
Rubini, 144, 261
Russell, Lord John, 95, 137
Russell, Lord William, murdered, 262
S
St Aulaire, Count, 211, 213, 214
St Germain-en-Laye, 43
Saint Marceau, Countess, 165
St Marsault, Comte et Comtesse de, 43
Sala, George Augustus, on Louis Napoleon, 196
_Salon_ at Holland House, 136
” at Gore House, 160
” at Seamore Place, 136
” Its decline and fall in London, 135
Schodel, Madame, 219, 220
Scott, Sir Walter, 223
Seamore Place, 101 _seq._
” Evenings at, 138
” Guests at, 102 _seq._
” Robbery at, 272
Shafto, Mr, 183
Shakespeare, _Love’s Labour Lost_, xi
Shaw, George Bernard, xii
Shee, W. A., 144
” on Gore House, 160
” on Countess Guiccioli, 162, 165
” on Duchesse de Guiche, 36
” on Louis Napoleon, 196
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 107
Sheridan, _School for Scandal_, xii
Simon, Dr Léon, 286, 287
Smith, Albert, on Napoleon III., 196
Smith, James, 102, 109, 112
Smith, James and Horace, _Rejected Addresses_, 107
Smith, Sydney, 123, 180
Somerset, Lady Fitzroy, 134
Southey, Robert, 223
Soyer, _Chef_, 293
Standish, 261
_Star and Garter_, Richmond, 147, 155
Stuart, Hon. W., 293
Stultz, “Tailor to M. le Comte d’Orsay,” 117
Sue, Eugène, 224, 238
” Account of, 296
” _Mysteries of Paris_, _Wandering Jew_, 295
Sumner, Charles, 188, 195
” on Gore House, 186
” on Landor, 218
T
Taglioni, Mlle., 86, 87, 144
Talbot, Mr, 140
Talma, Mme., 19
Tamburini, 144
“Tamburini Row,” 261
Tankerville, Lord, 220
Tarentum, Archbishop of, 67
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 266
Teufelsdröckh, Professor, definition of a dandy, xiii
Thackeray, W. M., 188, 191, 283
” Letters to Mrs Brookfield, 182, 281
” _Vanity Fair_, “Mr Moss’s Mansion,” 253
” Visits D’Orsay in Paris, 292
Thanet, Lord, 34
Thiers, M., 95
Thomson, Poulett, 95
Ticknor, George, 180
Trelawney, the _Younger Son_, 169, 170
Tullemore, Lady, 134
Tyrone, 32
U
Ude, _Chef_, 295
” story of, 150
Uwins, painter, 57
V
Valence, 44
Viel Castel, Count Horace de, on D’Orsay, 298, 304
Vigne, Casimir de la, _Columbus_, 67
Vigny, Count Alfred de, 176, 181, 260
” Letter to Lady Blessington, 180
Vizetelly, Henry, on D’Orsay, 250
W
Walewska, Countess, 202
Walewski, Count, 93, 95
Webster, Sir Godfrey, 136
Wellington, Duke of, 158, 188
” Catholic Emancipation Act, 88
” in Paris, 18, 19
” on Napoleon III., 209
” on his portrait by D’Orsay, 232
Westmacott, sculptor, 57
White-bait, 147, 148
Wild oats, 147
Wilkie, Sir David, 33, 72
Williams, Lady, 94
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 139
” Description of Lady Blessington, 137
” on Disraeli, 140
” on D’Orsay, 122
” Visits Lady Blessington, 104
Wilton, Lord, 102
Wombwell, George, 242
Worcester, Lord, 240, 241
Wordsworth, W., 223
Würtemberg, King of, 16
Wyatt (Wayatville), Sir Jeffrey, 149
Wycherley, high priest of dandyism, xii
Y
Yates, Edmund, on D’Orsay and Louis Napoleon, 195
” on Planché, 262
Yates, Frederick Henry, 240_n_
Z
Zichy, Count, 172, 173
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