Frances Burney’s diary, 1815

April 23rd brought me a letter: the mission was to Luxembourg. His adjoint was the Colonel Comte de Mazancourt, his aide-de-camp M. de Premorel, and also that…

April 26, we left the Rue de La Montague, after, on my part, exactly a month's residence. Our new apartments in the March aux Bois were au premier, and commodious…

My best friend left me to begin his campaign; left me, by melancholy chance, upon his birthday. I could not that day see a human being - I could but consecrate it…