Cormenin is said to have been the adviser of the Orleans confiscation....
* * * * * _To John Kenyon_ [Paris], 138 Avenue des Ch.-Elysees: February 15, 1852.
My dearest Mr.Kenyon,--Robert sends you his Shelley,[12] having a very few copies allowed to him to dispose of.

I think you have Shelley's other letters, of which this volume is the supplement, and you will not be sorry to have Robert's preface thrown in, though he makes very light of it himself.
You never write a word to us, and so I don't mean to send you a letter to-day--only as few lines as I can drop in a sulky fit, repenting as I go on.

As to politics, you know you have all put me in the corner because I stand up for universal suffrage, and am weak enough to fancy that seven millions and a half of Frenchmen have some right to an opinion on their own affairs.

It's really fatal in this world to be consequent--it leads one into damnable errors.

So I shall not say much more at present.