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with Taglioni -- A dinner-party at De Morny's -- A comedy scene
between husband and wife -- Flotow, the composer of "Martha" --
His family -- His father's objection to the composer's profession
-- The latter's interview with M. de Saint-Georges, the author of
the libretto of Balfe's "Bohemian Girl" -- M. de Saint-Georges
prevails upon the father to let his son study in Paris for five
years, and to provide for him during that time -- The supplies
are stopped on the last day of the fifth year -- Flotow, at the
advice of M. de Saint-Georges, stays on and lives by giving
piano-lessons -- His earthly possessions at his first success --
"Rob Roy" at the Hotel Castellane -- Lord Granville's opinion of
the music -- The Hotel Castellane and some Paris salons during
Louis-Philippe's reign -- The Princesse de Lieven's, M. Thiers',
etc. -- What Madame de Girardin's was like -- Victor Hugo's --
Perpetual adoration; very artistic, but nothing to eat or to
drink -- The salon of the ambassador of the Two Sicilies -- Lord
and Lady Granville at the English Embassy -- The salon of Count
Apponyi -- A 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.

Next to Dumas, the man who is uppermost in my recollections of that
period is Dr. Louis Veron, the founder of the _Revue de Paris_, which
was the precursor of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_; Dr Veron, under whose
management the Paris Opera rose to a degree of perfection it has never
attained since; Dr. Veron, who, as some one said, was as m