An Englishman in Paris Notes And Recollections volume 2
An Englishman in Paris Notes And Recollections volume 2
Albert Dresden Vandam
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It was rather comical to see a grave minister of State solemnly grinding out tunes, and being called to task every now and again for his incapacity. The worst offender, the most hopeless performer, was undoubtedly the Emperor himself. The Bonapartes are one and all devoid of the slightest taste for music. I think it is De Bourrienne but I will not be certain who speaks of the founder of the dynasty humming as he went along from one apartment to another. " Et Dieu sait comme il chantait faux, " ...adds the chronicler in despair. That part of the great man's mantle had decidedly fallen upon his nephew. I remember the latter trying to distinguish himself on that piano- organ one evening. M. De Maupas, who was the prefect of police at the time of the Coup d'Etat, and minister of police afterwards, was among the guests. The ambulant musician in Paris has to get a kind of licence from the prefecture of police, the outward sign of which is a brass badge, which he is bound to wear suspended from his button-hole.
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