Frommer's India
Frommer's India
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Author(s): Bruyn, Pippa de
ISBN No.: 9780764567278
Pages: 508
Year: 200402
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 30.35
Status: Out Of Print

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: .in looking back for a few years past, I find that in 1857, at one presentation only, eighty-four Americans were introduced At the two presentations in 1858 there were introduced, forty-seven at the one and fifty-seven at the other. At the two presentations in 1859, sixty-eight at the one, and fifty-one at the other.


At the three presentations in 1860, at the one, thirty-four, and at the other two, seventy-three. In 1861 the list is so marked that it is difficult to say the precise number, but one of my predecessor's dispatches says that at one presentation he introduced thirty-five, and at the other ' a large number, ' how many I know not. These presentations, you are aware, are on the night of the Court ball, and all who are presented are, of course, invited to the ball. In addition, there is an average of perhaps fifty other Americans, resident in Paris, who have been presented in past years; some or perhaps most of whom expect invitations. As the rules of Court limit the introduction of the subjects of other European countries to a small and privileged class, the result is that, on these occasions, the citizens of the United States outnumber not only the subjects of any other country except France, but probably outnumber the citizens or subjects of all foreign countries of the world together. There is a limit, if not to Royal hospitality, at least to space in a Ball and Supper Room, though they be in a Palace; a fact which our countrymen have not always remembered. In addition to these matters, at one of the presentations last year, an unpleasant difficulty occurred with a young American, and there was besides another violation of the etiquette of the Court, to which it is needless more particularly to refer. From these or other causes, at the.