was set up in the Place to which it gave its name (where the Luxor column now stands, in the Place de la Concorde) amidst the jeers and insults of the mob, who declared it would never be got to pass the hotel of Madame de Pompadour.

How much or how little of all this touched Gibbon, we do not know.

We do know one thing, that his English clothes were unfashionable and looked very foreign, the French being "excessively long-waisted." Doubtless his scanty purse could not afford a new outfit, such as Walpole two years afterwards, under the direction of Lady Hertford, promptly procured.

On the 8th of May he hurried off to Lausanne.[5] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 5: The chronicle of events which occurred during Gibbon's sojourn in Paris will be found in the interesting _Memoires de Bachaumont._] His ultimate object was Italy.

But he wisely resolved to place a period of solid study between the lively dissipation of Paris and his classic pilgrimage.