I intended to begin my exhibitions,
and on the very day after my arrival I
received a special command to appear
at the Tuileries on the following Sunday
evening. It will be remembered that
Louis Philippe's daughter, the wife of
King Leopold, of Belgium, had seen
the General at Buckingham Palace—a
fact that had been duly chronicled in
the French as well as English papers,
and I have no doubt that she had
privately expressed her gratification at
seeing him. With this advantage, and
with the prestige of our receptions by
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, we
went to the Tuileries with full confidence
that our visit and reception would be
entirely satisfactory.
At the appointed hour the General and
I, arrayed in the conventional court
costume, were ushered into a grand
saloon of the palace where we were
introduced to the King, the Queen,
Princess Adelaide, the Duchess
d'Orleans and her son the Count de Paris,
Prince de Joinville, Duke and Duchess
de Nemours, the Duchess d'Aumale,
and a dozen or more distinguished
persons, among whom was the editor
of the official Journal des Debats. The
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