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( whether officially or unofficially) resident for a longer 

 or shorter time in England, were affected by the 

 ' Anglomania ' then prevalent among the French aris- 

 tocracy, cultivated horse-racing a VAnglaise, visited 

 Newmarket, causing Mr. Hugo Meynell to complain 

 of the nuisance, and to wish that ' we were comfortably 

 at war again,' and undoubtedly received attention from 

 the Jockey Club, probably to the extent of being made 

 temporary members of it, as we have seen that 

 1 Jemmy ' Boswell professes to have been made on the 

 introduction of Lord Eglinton. These Frenchmen, 

 or the chief of them, were the Marquis de Conn* an s 

 (whose name was given to the Conflans Stakes at 

 Brighton, or rather Brighthelmstone, and who pur- 

 chased and imported into France the famous race- 

 horse and sire King Pepin, whether on his own 

 account or that of the Comte d'Artois, purchaser of 

 Barbary and Comus) ; the Marquis de Fitz-James 

 (descendant of our James the Second, and a great 

 favourite at Newmarket) ; the Comte de Guerchy (the 

 well-known ambassador) ; the Comte de Lauraguais 

 (who was one of the famous little Gimcrack's many 

 owners, and three or four of whose sisters successively 

 obtained the questionable distinction of being mistress 

 to Louis the Fifteenth) ; the Due de Lauzun (who 

 ran successfully with Taster and Patrician against 

 Lord Clermont with Creeper at Newmarket in 1773, 

 and raced at Lewes and elsewhere in 1774) ; and last, 

 but by no means least, the Comte de Mirabeau (who 



