story connected with it -- Furniture and
entertainments -- Cakes, ices, and tea; no champagne as during
the Second Empire -- The Hotel Castellane and its amateur
theatricals -- Rival companies -- No under-studies -- Lord
Brougham at the Hotel Castellane -- His bad French and his
would-be Don Juanism -- A French rendering of Shakespeare's
"There is but one step between the sublime and the ridiculous,"
as applied to Lord Brougham -- He nearly accepts a part in a
farce where his bad French is likely to produce a comic effect --
His successor as a murderer of the language -- M. de
Saint-Georges -- Like Moliere, he reads his plays to his
housekeeper -- When the latter is not satisfied, the dinner is
spoilt, however great the success of the play in public
estimation -- Great men and their housekeepers -- Turner, Jean
Jacques Rousseau, Eugene Delacroix 62

CHAPTER V.

The Boulevards in the forties -- The Chinese Baths -- A favourite
tobacconist of Alfred de Musset -- The price of cigars -- The
diligence still the usual mode of travelling -- Provincials in
Paris -- Parliamentary see-saw between M. Thiers and M. Guizot --
Amenities of editors -- An advocate of universal suffrage --
Distribution of gratuitous sausages to the working man on the
king's birthday -- The rendezvous of actors in search of an
engagement -- Frederick Lemaitre on the eve of appearing in a new
part -- The Legitimists begin to leave their seclusion and to
mingle with the bourgeoisie -- Alexandre Dumas and Scribe -- The
latter's fertility as a playwright -- The National Guards go
shooting, in uniform and in companies, on the Plaine Saint-Denis
-- Vidocq's private inquiry office in the Rue Vivienne -- No
river-side resorts -- The plaster elephant on the Place de la
Bastille -- The sentimental romances of Loisa Puget -- The songs
of the working classes -- Cheap bread and wine -- How they
enjoyed themselves on Sundays and holidays -- Theophile Gautier's
pony-carriage -- The hatred of the bourgeoisie -- Nestor
Roqueplan's expression of it -- Gavarni's -- M. Thiers' sister
keeps a restaurant at the corner of the Rue Drouot -- When he is
in power, the members of the Opposition go and dine there, and
publish facetious accounts of the entertainment -- All