D'Orsay; or, The complete dandy

I come back to my cage and my restraint the fresher and more healthy for it.”

That is the point of view we must take if we are to judge D’Orsay justly; we must lock up our conscience for the nonce, we must get away from the unimaginative atmosphere of the law-courts, we must snap the shackles of convention which always make it impossible for us to form a fair opinion of the unconventional.

Judged by the standards of life and conduct which must control everyday men and women, D’Orsay was a monster of iniquity, and also, as Punch would put it, he was worse than wicked, he was vulgar. His friends cannot have weighed him by any such standards, or they would have condemned him and scorned him. They could not then have accepted him as one of themselves, as a man to be almost loved; they would have turned cold shoulders to any ordinary mortal who treated the love of woman as a comedy and debts of honour as mere farce.

But your real dandy is not an ordinary man and must not be judged by common standards. He stands outside and above the ordinary rules of life and conduct; he has not any conscience, and questions of morality do not affect him. All that is for us to do in viewing such a one as D’Orsay is to weigh his physical and mental gifts, and to examine the uses to which he put them, to look to the opportunities which were given to him and the advantage which he took of them.

Of the multitude of witnesses whom we have summoned there is not one who denies that D’Orsay was a man of supreme physical beauty, and the portraits of him support their verdict. Good looks that were almost effeminate in their charm were supported by the physique of a perfect man, and in all manly sports and pursuits he was highly accomplished. Of his mental qualities it is not so easy justly to weigh the worth; he was an accomplished amateur in art some say, others deny it, but on the whole the evidence seems to be in his favour; he was endowed with a pleasing habit of talk, though scarcely with wit. He was good-humoured, a bon garçon and good-natured. He was an accomplished gourmet. In the art of dress he was supreme. He was more greatly skilled, perhaps, than any other man, in the art of gaining and giving pleasure. He was brave.

Morality, as has been said, does not enter into the consideration of such a man; he was above morality, or outside it. There have been and there are others like him. They are grown-up children, utterly irresponsible; not immoral but unmoral; they “please to live and live to please” themselves. They do not realise that their actions may prove costly to others and therefore do not count the cost. They are children of impulse not of calculation. They are emotional not logical. Pleasure is their pursuit and they shun all that is unpleasing and displeasing. They are so different from us ordinary folk that we cannot appraise them or even fully understand them. Fear of consequences that would appal us have no terrors for them; they do not need to set them aside, they are not aware of them. Conventions which hamper us, for them do not exist. To fulfil the desire of to-day is their one aim and ambition and they take no heed of to-morrow.

It is as a dandy that D’Orsay must be judged, and in that rôle he 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”?

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, 177n, 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, 267n
• 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, 224n, 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, 176n
• ” 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, 240n
• Z
• Zichy, Count, 172, 173