Tallien was a personal admirer of hers, Deputy Dupont would do anything she asked.
She wanted to act in London, at a theatre called Drury Lane.

She wanted to play Moliere in England in French, and had already spoken with several of her colleagues, who were ready to join her.

They would give public representations in aid of the starving population of France; there were plenty of Socialistic clubs in London quite Jacobin and Revolutionary in tendency: their members would give her full support.
She would be serving her country and her countrymen and incidentally see something of the world, and amuse herself.

She was bored in Paris.
Then she thought of Marguerite St.Just, once of the Maison Moliere, who had captivated an English milor of enormous wealth.

Demoiselle Candeille had never been of the Maison Moliere; she had been the leading star of one of the minor--yet much-frequented--theatres of Paris, but she felt herself quite able and ready to captivate some other unattached milor, who would load her with English money and incidentally bestow an English name upon her.
So she went to London.
The experiment, however, had not proved an unmitigated success.