The Life of George Brummell Esq Author:William Jesse Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Brummell at Paris—Passes a week there—Orders a snuff-box at Dabert's— Arrives at Caen—Takes up his abode at Madame de St. Ursain's—His old valet ... more »leaves him—A French cafe—Brummell's letter to Mr. Marshall, describing his reception at Caen—Talleyrand—Monsieur Target—Colonel de la Pommeraye—Monsieur de Montrond—Sketch of his character. The streets of Paris were graced by the Beau's presence for a whole week, and during this time he was the frequent guest of Lord Stuart de Rothe- say, and several members of the haute vole'e of the French capital. After having been fourteen years in a dirty fishing-town, he must have enjoyed himself most uncommonly; but I shall say nothing of his friends, as he records their hospitality with his own pen. Dreadful repletion, however, must necessarily have ensued from dining at such tables as those of the Prince of Benevento, Lord Stuart de Rothesay, and Madame de Bagration; but though bad nights, and splitting head-aches, were in all probability the consequence, he contrived to rise sufficiently early to pass in review all the snuffboxes in the Palais-Royal and the Rue de la Paix, but not one could he find worthy of his selection,and he therefore left an order at Dabert's for an enamelled gold one, which when made was to cost the trifling sum of two thousand five hundred francs,—more than his year's income. On the 5th of October, the Beau arrived in Caen, having travelled post from Paris in a carriage hired for the occasion, and with his valet Selegue in the rumble, four horses and two postilions, he drove up amidst a feu $ artifice from their whips to the Hotel de la Victoire; the porte-cochere was thrown open, and in rolled his Britannic Majesty's representative, George Brummell. Higgling for francs, would have been unworthy of a...« less