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 316
eof those evening parties an Englishman whom she had known in Italycame up to her, and, in the midst of the deep silence which always reignsin these assemblies, asked her if such gatherings were not amusing. What is amusement to you would be boredom to us, was her reply.She could not imagine what… … EVENINGS IN MADDOX STREET 145 the hostess. Silence seems to have been as much the fashion in thosedays as is talk at the present time. In the Park the women walkedtogether on one side, all dressed in white, and their silence, their perfectcalm, would make one think they were walking ghosts. The men…
