Excerpt from An Englishman in Paris, Vol. 1 of 2: Notes and Recollections Bohemian Girl - M. De saint-georges prevails upon the father to let his son study in Paris for five years. And to pro vide for him during that time - The supplies are stopped on the last day of the fifth year - Flotow, at the advice of M. De saint-georges, stays on and lives by giving piano lessons - His earthly possessions at his first success Rob Boy at the Hotel Castellane - Lord Granville's opinion of the music - The Hotel Castellane and some Paris salons during louis-philippe's reign - The Princesse de Lieven's, M. Thiers', etc. - What Madame de Girardin's was like - Victor Hugo's - Perpetual adoration very artistic, but nothing to eat or to drink - The salon of the ambassador of the Two Sicilies - Lord and Lady Granville at the English Embassy - The salon of Count Apponyi - A story connected with it - Furniture and entertainments - Cakes, ices, and tea; no champagne as during the Second Empire - The Hotel Castellane and its amateur theatricals - Rival com panies - No under-studies - Lord Brougham at the Hotel Castellane - His bad French and his would-be Don Juan ism - A French rendering of Shakespeare's There is but one step between the sublime and the ridiculous, as applied to Lord Brougham - He nearly accepts a part in a farce where his bad French is likely to produce a comic effect His successor as a murderer of the language - M. De Saint Georges - Like Moliere, he reads his plays to his house keeper - When the latter is not satisfied, the dinner is spoilt, however great the success of the play in public estimation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.