412 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
to say of American cities and rivers, and added: ‘You 
are a great nation, a wonderful nation.” The Duke 
wrote his name in Audubon’s subscription book, prom- 
ised to try to enlist a number of the crowned heads of 
Europe in his behalf, and gave him besides a number 
of orders for pictures of animals. 
Audubon had already made friends with the veteran 
painter of flowers, Pierre Joseph Redouté, and when 
it was proposed that they should exchange works, the 
“Raphael of Flowers” consented, gave Audubon at once 
nine numbers of his Belles Fleurs, and promised to send 
“Les Roses.” 
During this visit of eight weeks Parker painted por- 
traits of both Cuvier and Redouté; Swainson worked 
steadily at the Museum, where Isidore Geoffroy Saint- 
Hilaire gave him the use of his private study; while 
Audubon, for the most part, was driving from post to 
pillar in his not altogether successful efforts to extend 
his subscription list. As already intimated, his greatest 
success in Paris was in winning the friendship and en- 
dorsement of Cuvier, who reported upon his work at a 
meeting of the Royal Academy of Sciences held on 
September 22.7". Audubon has related how on this occa- 
sion he had an appointment to meet the Baron in the 
library of the Institute at precisely half past one 
o’clock; he waited; the hall filled, and the clock ticked 
on, but the great savant did not appear. Finally, said 
Audubon, after an hour had passed, “all at once I heard 
his voice, and saw him advancing, very warm and ap- 
parently fatigued. He met me with many apologies, 
and said, ‘Come with me’; and as we walked along, he 
explaining all the time why he had been late, while his 
hand drove a pencil with great rapidity, and he told me 
% See Vol. I, p. 3. 
