Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842 : her life, works, and friendships : with a catalogue raisonné of the artist's pictures (1915)
Helm, W. H. (William Henry), 1860-1936, Vigée-Lebrun, Louise-Elisabeth, 1755-1842 · Boston : Small, Maynard · leaf 124
it adorned by stands always covered with everykind of foliage, not even taken away at night. Vigee-Lebrun frequently saw Benjamin Franklin. The first time wasat the Court, when he was received, with the other foreign ambassadors,by the King. In his Quaker-like costume, among the magnificent… … A BUSYBODY 47 striking contrast than Castlereagh was to offer when he attended the Con-gress of Vienna in a plain suit, without \^ earing his orders. Any one moreout of place, one might think, in the Paris society of that time, could hardlyhave been found than Dr. Franklin, and at the house of her…
