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takes the lead among anti-Linnaeans. He inherits his 

 taste ' [for botany] * from his uncles Bernard and Joseph 

 de Jussieu.' Smith likewise mentions how Linnaeus's 

 books ' had the honour of being prohibited in France, 

 for that people, although then much enlightened, were 

 not as yet enlightened by authority.' Yet they re- 

 membered him long after he was gone, and several of 

 them wrote frequently to him. Marechal de Noailles, 

 his old friend and correspondent, decorated his garden 

 with a monument to Linnaeus, and celebrated a jubilee 

 in his honour. 1 



Pleasure was much, friendship was more, but the 

 longing for love, that had been hushed to sleep again, 

 now woke and cried hungry for food. On his re- 

 turn to Paris Carl packed his treasures his natural 

 history specimens, and the Japanese and other foreign 

 wares he had collected as presents to his Elizabeth, 

 with coloured things from the East, and tasty trifles 

 from Paris, to adorn their future life. He sent his repu- 

 tation on before him by letter and testimonial, bade 

 adieu to the friends who would always form a brilliant 

 circlet in the realm of his recollection, and sailed down 

 the rich and beautiful Seine to Rouen. This was in the 

 summer of 1738, when the valley of the Seine was still 

 a diorama of palaces, a street of chateaux and parks, 

 the three towns of Havre, Rouen, and Paris set like 

 jewels on the river, or like the three bright stars of 

 Orion's Belt. Rouen, the sumptuous and stately, was 

 1 Smith. 



