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of a certain ' Doigt-de-pied ' (so called ' because her 

 nose resembled a "big toe"'), of Hortense Schneider 

 (could that be the Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein ?), of 

 Constance and "Armande Resuchs, of Adele Courtois, 

 Barucci, Judith Ferreyra, Lucile Mangin, Anna Deslion, 

 Esther Guimont, Crenisse, Manvoy, Catinette, &c., who 

 mixed (at Chantilly) in the highest circles (so far as men 

 were concerned) and added the charm of their presence 

 and their frailty to the week of ' distractions les plus 

 echevelees,' which seems to mean in English ' the wildest 

 debauchery.' The tone of those fair creatures is re- 

 flected in the remark attributed to one of them who 

 said of her 'friend ' (male) to her friend (female), 'My 

 dear, he was an adorable fellow ; I was quite eighteen 

 months before I left him.' This is supposed by the 

 ' compatriot ' to show indisputably how ' polls, spirituels 

 et bien vivants ' the men of that day must have been. 



Well, the ' decheance ' came and the Chateau of 

 Chantilly came once more into the hands of the Duke 

 d'Aumale. He has now had to quit both it and 

 France again : but he has not been robbed again — as 

 yet ; and the newspapers have lately been occupied 

 with his will, by which he leaves the magnificent pro- 

 perty to the French Institute. 



This work cannot be considered complete without a 

 few pages concerning certain institutions which are 

 parasites, or, to use a less offensive expression, offshoots 

 or outcomes of horse-racing. The chief of these are 

 betting, betting-rooms, and the specialties of breeding 

 and selling thoroughbred stock. In England, as every- 

 body knows, the headquarters of betting are and have 

 been for about a century at the establishment of Messrs. 

 Tattersall, who have also for about the same time — or 



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