rries -- Mlle. Vigee's First Portrait of Note
(Count Schouvaloff) -- Acquaintance with Mme. Geoffrin --
The Authoress's Puritanical Bringing-up -- Male Sitters
Attempt Flirtation -- Public Resorts of Paris Before the
Revolution 3

CHAPTER II. UP THE LADDER OF FAME.

Tedious Sojourn in the Country -- Social Amenities in Paris
-- Mlle. Vigee Becomes Mme. Lebrun -- Prognostications of
Unhappy Wedlock -- On the Ladder of Fame -- Singularities of
Oriental Taste -- Marie Antoinette as a Model -- Painting
the Royal Family -- How Louis XVIII. Sang -- The Princess de
Lamballe 16

CHAPTER III. WORK AND PLEASURE.

Impressions of Flanders -- The Authoress's Election to the
French Royal Academy of Painting -- Her Devotion to Work --
Social Pleasures -- A Tale of an Artist's Extravagance --
Calonne and Calumny -- M. Lebrun Allows His Wife Naught Per
Cent. of Her Earnings -- A Dramatic Constellation -- The
Incomparable Mme. Dugazon 32

CHAPTER IV. EXILE.

A Gallic Maecenas -- Anecdote Concerning Beaumarchais -- The
Duke de Nivernais -- Mme. Du Barry Sketched in Words -- And
Painted in Oils -- Rumblings of the Revolution -- Mme.
Lebrun's Fearsome Journey to Italy -- Renewed Artistic
Activity at Rome -- Easter Sunday at St. Peter's --
Fascination of the Eternal City -- Vanities and Violences of
Its People 47

CHAPTER V. NEAPOLITAN DAYS.

Naples -- A Sleepy Ambassadress -- The Remarkable Life of
Lady Hamilton -- Being the Story of a Frivolous Flirt Fond
of Beer -- More Royal Models -- Excursions to Posilippo --
Mlle. Lebrun Writes a Novel at the Age of Nine -- The Queen
of Naples Sits to the Authoress -- The Wedding of the Doge
of Venice with the Sea 63

CHAPTER VI. TURIN AND VIENNA.

A Queen Who Refused to Be Painted -- A Four-Course Dinner of
Frogs, Frogs, Frogs and Frogs -- Villeggiatura -- French
Refugees at Turin -- Their Heartrending Plight -- Vienna --
News of the "Awful Murder" of Louis XVI. and Marie
Antoinette -- Barefoot Princess Lichtenstein -- Inducements
to Visit Russia -- Journey Thither via Dresd