Memoirs of DeCandolle. 9 
account of the interviews with him, and with his minister of 
police, Fouché, is well worth preserving. With this transient ex- 
ception, we have only the most incidental allusions to public af- 
fairs during the eventful years of the Consulate, the Empire, and 
the Restoration. 
himself when he came to reside at Paris. Indeed Delessert, as 
we have had occasion to learn, became one of Count Rumford’s 
executors. The admiration with which Rumford’s writings and 
economical inventions had inspired the two young philanthro- 
pists was much diminished upon personal acquaintance. 
“It was after his plans,” writes DeCandolle, “that we had constructed 
our furnaces, after his receipts that we made our soups, upon his advice 
at we were induced to substitute such assistance for gifts of money.’ 
So when Rumford was expected at Paris, they congratulated 
themselves upon such an acquisition, went to meet him on his 
arrival, and brought him to dine with them. 
“We found him a dry, methodical man, who spoke of benevolence as 
a discipline, and of the poor as we should not have dared to spea' of 
the poor must be forced to work, &e., &e. reat was our astonishment 
at hearing such maxims: however we did our utmost to profit y his ad- 
Vice in practical matters. I had ood deal of intercourse with him, 
life, Tasked M. Rumford himself for a few notes: h m , and 
Ppointed an interview at his house to give them to me. I went: what 
bi nishment when he presented an article entirely comp 
Lavoisier, the widow of the celebrated cbemist. Isaw something of both, 
never knew an odder union. M. Rumford was cold, imperturbable, 
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