If, as mother has said, they went to reside at Versailles for reasons of economy, they will not effect much in that direction while they make a practice of entertaining all the acquaintances who happen to be in their neighbourhood.

They do not confine their hospitalities to English people, either.

I wonder who this M.de la Feste is, in whom Caroline says my mother is so much interested.
July 18 .-- Another letter from Caroline.

I have learnt from this epistle, that M.Charles de la Feste is 'only one of the many friends of the Marlets'; that though a Frenchman by birth, and now again temporarily at Versailles, he has lived in England many many years; that he is a talented landscape and marine painter, and has exhibited at the Salon, and I think in London.

His style and subjects are considered somewhat peculiar in Paris--rather English than Continental.