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 My friend, who from being accustomed to play the parts of kings and nobles, had acquired habits of reckless prodigality, handed her a two-sous piece. I followed his example. The child disappeared and returned almost immediately, bearing a paper horn of fried potatoes, temptingly hot and brown. She offered the "horn" to my friend and myself, and this was the only time I ever partook of a meal with Mademoiselle Rachel.

In 1836 Saint Aulaire applied to the then director of the Comédie FrançaiseComédie-Française [sic], Jouslin de la Salle, on behalf of his pupil "La petite Diablesse," as he called her. Jouslin gives the following account of the interview:—

What a scene for a picture! Mars—the beautiful and successful Mars—who had reigned a queen for so long, and who still retained a great deal of the grace and beauty that enchanted the France of the latter end of the preceding century, and the pale dark-faced Jewess, with the eyes of flame, who was destined to take the sceptre that was dropping from the elder woman's grasp. The result of this audience was that