appearances to the contrary, people like Guizot better than
Thiers -- But few entries for the race for wealth in those days
-- The Rothschilds still live in the Rue Lafitte -- Favourite
lounges -- The Boulevards, the Rue Le Peletier, and the Passage
de l'Opera -- The Opera -- The Rue Le Peletier and its
attractions -- The Restaurant of Paolo Broggi -- The Estaminet du
Divan -- Literary waiters and Boniface -- Major Fraser -- The
mystery surrounding his origin -- Another mysterious personage --
The Passage de l'Opera is invaded by the stockjobbers, and loses
its prestige as a promenade -- Bernard Latte's, the publisher of
Donizetti's operas, becomes deserted -- Tortoni's -- Louis-Blanc
-- His scruples as an editor -- A few words about duelling -- Two
tragic meetings -- Lola Montes -- Her adventurous career -- A
celebrated trial -- My first meeting with Gustave Flaubert, the
author of "Madame Bovary" and "Salambo" -- Emile de Girardin --
His opinion of duelling -- My decision with regard to it -- The
original of "La Dame aux Camelias" -- Her parentage -- Alexandre
Dumas gives the diagnosis of her character in connection with his
son's play -- L'Homme au Camellia -- M. Lautour-Mezerai, the
inventor of children's periodical literature in France -- Auguste
Lireux -- He takes the management of the Odeon -- Balzac again --
His schemes, his greed -- Lireux more fortunate with other
authors -- Anglophobia on the French stage -- Gallophobia on the
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CHAPTER VI.

Rachel and some of her fellow-actors -- Rachel's true character
-- Her greediness and spitefulness -- Her vanity and her wit --
Her powers of fascination -- The cost of being fascinated by her
-- Her manner of levying toll -- Some of her victims, Comte
Duchatel and Dr. Veron -- The story of her guitar -- A little
transaction between her and M. Fould -- Her supposed charity and
generosity -- Ten tickets for a charity concert -- How she made
them into twenty -- How she could have made them into a hundred
-- Baron Taylor puzzled -- Her manner of giving presents --
Beauvallet's precaution with regard to one of her gifts --
Alexandre Dumas the younger, wiser or perhaps not so wise in his
generation -- Rachel as a raconteuse -- The st