themselves, who, even at that time, were nearly all of good
birth, and who, to use a colloquial expression, looked not unlike brass
knockers on a pigsty. This was the society Louis-Napoleon was to sweep
away with the aid of men, some of whom I have endeavoured to sketch in
subsequent notes. I would fain say a few words of a "shipwrecked one,"
of the preceding dynasty, whose acquaintance I did not make until the
vessel he had steered so long had foundered, and of the self-constituted
pilot of the interim regime. I am alluding to MM. Guizot and de
Lamartine.

CHAPTER XII.

Guizot, Lamartine, and Beranger -- Public opinion at sea with
regard to the real Guizot -- People fail to see the real man
behind the politician -- Guizot regrets this false conception --
"I have not the courage to be unpopular" -- A tilt at Thiers --
My first meeting with him -- A picture and the story connected
with it -- M. Guizot "at home" -- His apartment -- The company --
M. Guizot on "the Spanish marriages" -- His indictment against
Lord Palmerston -- An incident in connection with Napoleon's tomb
at the Invalides -- Nicolas I. and Napoleon -- My subsequent
intimacy with M. Guizot -- Guizot as a father -- His
correspondence with his daughters -- A story of Henry Muerger and
Marguerite Thuillier -- M. Guizot makes up his mind not to live
in Paris any longer -- M. Guizot on "natural scenery" -- Never
saw the sea until he was over fifty -- Why M. Guizot did not like
the country; why M. Thiers did not like it -- Thiers the only man
at whom Guizot tilted -- M. Guizot died poor -- M. de Lamartine's
poverty did not inspire the same respect -- Lamartine's
impecuniosity -- My only visit to Lamartine's house -- Du Jellaby
dore -- With a difference -- All the stories and anecdotes about
M. de Lamartine relate to his improvidence and impecuniosity --
Ten times worse in that respect than Balzac -- M. Guizot's
literary productions and M. de Lamartine's -- The national
subscription raised for the latter -- How he anticipates some of
the money -- Beranger -- My first acquaintance with him --
Beranger's verdict on the Second Republic -- Beranger's constant
flittings -- Dislikes popularity -- The true story of Beranger
and Mdlle. Judith Frere.

That sentence of Louis-Philippe to Lord ----, quoted elsewhere: "Guizot
is