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 310
as she characteristicallynames him, inserting before the Parseval a particle to which he hadno title. He had the room above hers, and spent a great part of the nightin walking about reciting his own verses in a very penetrating voice. As at Rome, Florence, Moscow, and almost everywhere else, she… … THE ROC OF PORTMAN SQUARE 143 badly-played cornets of some cavalry, whose barracks were thereabouts,awoke her whenever she got to sleep. She moved next to a house inPortman Square, whence annoyances both of sound and imagination soondrove her away. These annoyances are so typical of the peculiar…
