There is no condition of life which is not to be found in this gorgeous and fantastic Fairyland." Macaulay had excellent opportunities for seeing behind the scenes during the closing acts of the great drama that was being played out through those summer months.

The Duc de Broglie, then Prime Minister, treated him with marked attention, both as an Englishman of distinction, and as his father's son.

He was much in the Chamber of Deputies, and witnessed that strange and pathetic historical revival when, after an interval of forty such years as mankind had never known before, the aged La Fayette again stood forth, in the character of a disinterested dictator, between the hostile classes of his fellow-countrymen.
"De La Fayette is so overwhelmed with work that I scarcely knew how to deliver even Brougham's letter, which was a letter of business, and should have thought it absurd to send him Mackintosh's, which was a mere letter of introduction, I fell in with an English acquaintance who told me that he had an appointment with La Fayette, and who undertook to deliver them both.

I accepted his offer, for, if I had left them with the porter, ten to one they would never have been opened.

I hear that hundreds of letters are lying in the lodge of the hotel.