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Rh the Revolution. In 1815 he returned, hired Chambord for two years of the Princesse de Wagram, and lived in thoroughly British style. He ultimately left a will in favour of the daughter of a married Frenchwoman, which at the instance of his legitimate family was set aside by the French tribunals.

Another chiel taking notes and printing them was the Rev. Stephen Weston, grandson of Bishop Weston of Exeter. In 1791 he had witnessed the 14th July celebration. In 1792 he had "run from Paris with fear and trembling, because she was possessed like a demoniac with a spirit of carnage, and reeking in the blood of August and September," but he now found it "swept and garnished, restored to its senses, and in its right mind." It was less altered, too, than he had expected. So fond of Paris was this somewhat flippant and sceptical clergyman, that in 1829, when turned of eighty, he went over again, assiduously frequenting theatres and other amusements, and had he not died the following year he would probably have paid another visit to see France under the new dynasty. A fellow-clergyman, Stephen Shepherd, of Gateacre, Lancashire, a friend of Roscoe's, seems to have been equally fond of the French capital. He had a letter of introduction to Helen Williams, and at her tea-table met Kosciusko, Carnot, a Neapolitan princess, and a Polish countess. He spent a most agreeable evening, but on his returning