My special huissier, Gerard, who sat all day outside of the salon door, was presented to me, and instantly became a most useful and important member of the householdnever forgot a name or a face, remembered what cards and notes I had received, whether the notes were answered, or the bills paid, knew almost all my wardrobe, would bring me down a coat or a wrap if I wanted one suddenly down-stairs.

W. and his staff were already in the salon reserve, giving final instructions.

Day after day I walked up and down the Boulevards, studying the photographs of the salon pictures, and was stricken by the art of Jules Lefevre.

The ambition which had once been identified with the cares of office or the dangers of war now found sufficient food in the bickerings of party-spirit, and revenged itself by salon jokes and salon impertinence for the loss of a lead it either could not or would not take in Parliament.

But now was to be remarked another social phenomenon, that complicated salon life more than ever.

Salon medals, 1845, 1848, 1855, 1867; Legion of Honor, 1865; Leopold Cross, 1880; Commander's Cross, Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, 1880.

Madame d'Abrantès may be considered as the inventor, in France, of what has since become so widely spread under the name of les salons picaresques, and of what, at the present day, is famous under the appellation of the demi-monde.

She was so beautiful that every one remarked her, but she had no official rank or claim of any kind to enter the salon reserveno one knew her, though every one was asking who she was.

A SALON SCENE (1831)

She wanted to make me into a salon sort of person, somebody who'd talk at her teasconverse, don't you know.

I was in the fencing-rooms of Monsieur Angelo, and in the salon-de-boxe of Monsieur Jackson, and in the club of Brooks, and in the lobby of the Chamber of Deputies, but nowhere did I hear any news.

His belt and pistol lay on the salon table, where he put them when he came downstairs.

When the Aspirant is not on duty outside he has to be here where he can be found, so he sits at the salon desk to do his writing and fix up his papers and reports, and when he is not going up and down stairs his orderly is.

The ambition which had once been identified with the cares of office or the dangers of war now found sufficient food in the bickerings of party-spirit, and revenged itself by salon jokes and salon impertinence for the loss of a lead it either could not or would not take in Parliament.