LADY MORGAN'S DIARY. oiO 



residing as Prussian ambassador. His stay was short, 

 for he was in Paris during both these months. We gei 

 glimpses of him at this time, as of other French celeb- 

 rities, in the flippant but amusing diary of Lady Mor- 

 gan. Writing from Paris in August, to her sister Lady 

 Clarke, she gossips in this fashion : 



" We found dear Denon surrounded by English 

 fashionables, from whom he rushed, when we were 

 announced, into our arms alternately. We met at din- 

 ner chez Madame d'Houchien, who received us like her 

 children. We found some of the old habitues there ; 

 but Denon and Morgan set me down at our hotel early 

 in the evening, I was so tired, and they proceeded to the 

 Bishop of Blois (Gregoire.) The bishop actually em- 

 braced him, heretic as he was, before all the company, 

 although there were two Italian bishops present, praised 

 my work on ' France,' and assured him it had done infi- 

 nite good. You may, therefore, be perfectly easy about 

 us. We are to dine to-morrow with Denon. Humboldt 

 asked to meet us." 



At the commencement of September her ladyship 

 walked to the Barbe bleue, Marche des Innocents, where 

 she bought herself a chapeau de soleil, with corn flowers 

 stuck in the side of it — a regular Leghorn — twenty 

 francs. She then went to Eaubonne to see poor dear 

 Madame Ginguene, but not finding her at home, she drove 

 to Montmorenci, where she dined deliciously for* four 

 francs. On her return she found that Humboldt had 

 called upon her during her absence. He left a little 

 billet, instead of a card. 



" Le Baron De Humboldt est venu s' informer du 

 retour bien tardif de Sir Charles et Lady Morgan." 



