Bedford, often danced with the young and handsome Eugène Beauharnais, Bonaparte's stepson. The Duchess was a warm admirer of the Consul, and pointing to his likeness, would say to Madame Lebrun, "Voilâ mon zéro" (héros). Lady Cholmondeley, Lady Conyngham, Lady Elizabeth Monck, and Lady Foster, also attended Josephine's receptions, whereas Lady Clarendon was one of the visitors who declined to worship the rising sun. "Those people who chose to be presented at Napoleon's courts," says her diary,[1] "were invited to many magnificent dinners and assemblies given by the ministers, but as ourselves with a very few exceptions did not feel inclined to pay homage to Bonaparte, the theatres and the entertainments given by foreigners were mostly our resources." She, however, saw Josephine at a ball at the Ministry of Marine. Lady Hester Stanhope, whose fathers second marriage had produced domestic friction, accompanied the Egertons in a long trip, which included Paris, but there is no record of her observations.
Titled visitors of the other sex included Lords Douglas (the late Duke of Hamilton), Spencer, Egremont, Pembroke, Cholmondeley, Conyngham, Mount-Edgecumbe, Falkland, Ossulston, Cahir, and Loftus (afterwards Marquis of Ely), and Lord Archibald Hamilton, some of whom must have been the "young lords " who at Lady Higginson's balls
- ↑ Lord Westmoreland's MSS. Historical MSS. Commission.
