Chapter VII

Domestic Arrangements—Changes in Young People—Pleasant Recollections—Lord Lilford—The Marquis and Marquise Zamperi—Comte Alexander de Laborde—The Marquis de Mornay—Mode of passing the Time—Evening Visits in France—Dinner-party—The Duc Dalberg—The Duc de Mouchy—Party to Montmorency—Rousseau's Hermitage—Sensibility, a Characteristic of Genius—Solitude—Letter of Rousseau to Voltaire—Church, of Montmorency—Baths at Enghien—The Comtesse de Gand—Colonel E. Lygon—The Marquis de Dreux-Brezé—Contrast between him and the Duc de Talleyrand—The Baron and Baroness de Ruysch—Mr. Douglas Kinnaird—Sir Francis Burdett—Colonel Leicester Stanhope—The Marquis Palavicini—Charms of Italian Women—Lords Darnley and Charlemont—Mr. Young, the Tragedian—Lord Lansdowne—Estimate of his Character—Sir Robert Peel—Respect for the Memory of Sir William Drummond—Lady Drummond—"Vivian Grey"—Mr. Standish—Intermarriages between the French and the English, 64.