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CELEBRITIES OF LONDON AND PARIS

BEING A THIRD SERIES OF REMINISCENCES

OF THE CAMP, THE COURT, AND
THE CLUBS,

I NCLUDING A C ORRECT A CCOUNT O F THE C OUP DE TAT

B Y C APTAIN R. H. G RONOW

F ORMERLY OF THE G RENADIER G UARDS , AND M.P. FOR S TAFFORD .

This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING

Text originally published in 1865 under the same title.

Pickle Partners Publishing 2011, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

Publishers Note

Although in most cases we have retained the Authors original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern readers benefit.

Preface.

As in conversational groups one story suggests another, some modest anecdotes may become the parents of a numerous progeny, though the offspring may not all prove equally interesting or amusing, and some may even be born lame; so this THIRD Volume of my "Recollections" is to be attributed to the conversational philoprogenitiveness of friendly gossip. I cannot help fearing, that amongst my numerous anecdotal progeny there may be some abortions; for it often happens that what is interesting or amusing to ourselves from association, fails to amuse others, and I may have noted down reminiscences unworthy of record. But it appears to me, that I am very much in the position of some raconteur in society whom a friendly party is bent upon making talk on. The amount of encouragement I have received from the Press and the Public, is far beyond my most flattering anticipations; and in expressing my grateful acknowledgments for the fayour shewn to my former "Recollections," I sincerely trust that the present volume will not be found unworthy of a place beside its predecessors.

I hope that no apology is needed for the addition of a few pages dedicated to the famous Coup d'tat, which restored tranquillity to the City of Paris, and was the basis of that prosperity and power which Imperial France now enjoys. The public may depend upon the accuracy of the statements I have made, since I have not trusted entirely to my own memory, but have verified every circumstance by contemporary living authority.

R. H. GRONOW.

PARIS, August 1, 1864.

Contents

ALMACKS IN 1815

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND THE CAVALRY

THE DUKE AT CARLTON HOUSE

THE DUKE AND THE AUTHOR

WELLINGTONS FIRST CAMPAIGN

THE GUARDS AND THE UMBRELLAS

COLONEL FREEMANTLE AND THE DUKE'S QUARTERS

A WORD FOR BROWN BEES

A STRANGE RENCONTRE

ENGLISH AND FRENCH SOLDIERS ON THE BOULEVARDS

"DATE OBOLUM BELISARIO."

"HATS OFF."

HATRED OF THE PRUSSIANS BY THE FRENCH PEASANTRY

SEVERE DISCIPLINE IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY

THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER IN PARIS

A FIRE-EATER COWED

AN INSULT RIGHTLY REDRESSED

A DUEL BETWEEN TWO OLD FRIENDS

A DUEL BETWEEN TWO OFFICERS IN THE LIFE GUARDS ABOUT THE YEAR 1821

FAYOT, THE CHAMPION OF THE LEGITIMISTS

THE GARDES DU CORPS

ADMIRAL LA SUSSE

MARSHAL LOBAU

MONTROND

CHATEAUBRIAND

PARSON AMBROSE

CAPTAIN WILDING

THE CHURCH MILITANT

LOUIS XVIII

THE BRIDGE OF JENA SAVED

LOUIS XVIII. AND SOSTHNES DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

THE DUC DE GRAMMONT

THE MONTMORENCIES

OUVRARD, THE FINANCIER

MADAME DE STAL

A FEMININE FOIBLE

MADEMOISELLE LE NORMAND

AN OMINOUS FALL

LOUIS PHILIPPE AND MARSHAL SOULT

DECAMPS AND THE DUKE OF ORLEANS

FASHION IN PARIS

LITERARY SALONS IN FRANCE

SIR JOHN ELLEY

AN ENGLISH DANDY IN PARIS

SHERIDAN AND THE ELECTORS OF STAFFORD

SHERIDAN AT DRURY LANE THEATRE

SHELLEYS FIGHT AT ETON

EPIGRAM BY CANNING

MR CANNING AND LORD LYNDHURST

CROCKFORDS CLUB

KING ALLEN

BALL HUGHES

SCROPE DAVIES

THOMAS MOORE

FRANCIS HARE

THEODORE HOOK

COSWAY THE PAINTER

MARTIN HAWKE

LORD NORMANBY

A MOTHER IN ISRAEL

EQUIPAGES IN LONDON AND PARISTHE FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB

KATE NORTH

SALLY BROOKE

MADAME GRASSINI

PIETY OF MADAME CATALANI

MISS T AND THE PERVERTS

RACHEL'S DEBUT

RACHEL AND JUDITH

ROSSINI

PIO NONOS FLIGHT TO GAETA

SUDDEN TURNS OF FORTUNE IN FRANCE

PARISIAN COCKNEYDOM

IMPROVEMENTS IN PARIS

FRENCH CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE

THE PARIS INSURRECTION OF 1848

FRENCH STATESMEN AND JOURNALISTS IN 1851

M. GUIZOT

M. THIERS

LAMARTINE

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON

THE COUP DTAT

STATE OF PUBLIC FEELING IN PARIS

THE PRINCE-PRESIDENT

M. DE MORNY

THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 1

THE ARRESTS

PARIS ON DECEMBER 2

LOUIS NAPOLEON AT THE LYSE

RECEPTION OF THE PRINCE-PRESIDENT

ALARM OF THE PARISIANS

THE LEGISLATIVE ASEMBLY

THE 3RD AND 4TH OF DECEMBER

WHAT THE AUTHOR SAW

GROUNDLESS FABRICATIONS

The Reminiscences of Captain Gronow. Vol. III

ALMACKS IN 1815 The personages delineated on the cover are well worthy of notice, both from the position they held in the fashionable world, and from their being represented with great truth and accuracy. The great George Brummell, the admirable Crichton of the age, stands in a dgag attitude, with his fingers in his waistcoat pocket. His neckcloth is inimitable, and must have cost him much time and trouble to arrive at such perfection; as the following anecdote shows. A friend calling on the beau saw the valet with an armful of flowing white cravats, and asked him if his master wanted so many at once. These, sir, are our failures, was the reply. Clean linen, and plenty of it, was Brummells maxim. He is talking earnestly to the charming Duchess of Rutland, who was a Howard, and mother to the present Duke. The tall man, in a black coat, who is preparing to waltz with Princess Esterhazy, so long ambassadress of Austria in London, is the Comte de St Antonio, afterwards Duke of Canizzaro. He resided many years in England, was a very handsome man, and a great lady-killer; he married an English heiress, Miss Johnson.

The original sketch from which these figures are taken, included also portraits of Charles, Marquis of Queensberry, Baron Neumann, at that time secretary of the Austrian Embassy; the late Sir George Warrender; and the handsome Comte St Aldegonde, afterwards a general, and at this period aide-de-camp to Louis Philippe, then Duke of Orleans.

The sketch was made in water-colours, from a group of these celebrities at a ball at Almacks, and was given to Brummell by the artist who executed it; it was highly prized by the king of the dandies, and was purchased at the sale of his effects in Chapel Street by the person who gave it to me.

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