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D'Orsay

Index

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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

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