CHAPTER III

From Bruxelles to Paris--Restoration of Louis XVIII--The officers of the allied armies--The Palais Royal--The Louvre--Protest of the author against the proposed despoiling of the French Museums--Unjust strictures against Napoleon's military policy--The cant about revolutionary robberies--The Grand Opera--Monuments in Paris--The Champs Elysées--Saint-Cloud--The Hôtel des Invalides--The Luxembourg--General Labédoyère--Priests and emigrants--Prussian Plunder--Handsome behaviour of the English officers--Reminiscences of Eton--Versailles.