Chapter V: 1855, 1856

Pages 121-153.

RESIDENCE IN PARIS. AET. 43-44.

Actors and dramas 122
Frederic Lemaitre 122
Last scene in _Gambler's Life_ 123
Apartment in Champs Elysees 124
French Translation of Dickens 125
Ary Scheffer and Daniel Manin 126
English friends 126
Acting at the Francais 127
Dumas' _Orestes_ 129
_Paradise Lost_ at the Ambigu 130
Profane nonsense 131
French _As You Like It_ 132
Story of a French drama 133
A delightful "Tag" 134
Auber and Queen Victoria 134
Scribe and his wife 136
At Regnier's 137
Viardot in _Orphee_ 138
Meets Georges Sand 138
Banquet at Girardin's 139
Second banquet 141
Bourse and its victims 142
Entry of troops from Crimea 143
Zouaves and their dog 144
Streets on New Year's Day 145
English and French art 146
Emperor and Edwin Landseer 147
Sitting to Ary Scheffer 148
Scheffer as to the likeness 149
A duchess murdered 150
Truth is stranger than fiction 151
Singular scenes described 152
What became of the actors 153