Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball--I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates--My artist-decorators--The question of the supper--I go for provisions to la Ferté-Vidame--View of this capital town of the Canton, by night, in a snowstorm--My nephew's room--My friend Gondon--Roebuck hunting--Return to Paris--I invent a Bank of Exchange before M. Proudhon--The artists at work--The dead Sequel to the preparations for my ball--Oil and distemper--Inconveniences of working at night--How Delacroix did his task--The ball--Serious men--La Fayette and Beauchene--Variety of costumes--The invalid and the undertaker's man--The last galop--A _political_ play--A _moral_ play…
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