" At tea, each of us has a separate tray, and makes
his or her own tea. It is very droll, and looks like



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four-and-twenty housekeepers all in a row. I mean to
hold on to the Abbey, and get all the oddities of the
place."

The winter of 1847-48 was passed in Paris ; and
again, after a summer at home, a journey to Niagara
and Montreal, with an English friend, Mrs. Wedgwood,
Mr. Appleton found himself in Europe. The spring
of 1848, in Paris, was an exciting time. After the fall
of Louis Philippe, the provisional government found
itself beset by immense difficulties. The moderate
members, Lamartine, Garnier-Pagfes, and others, were
opposed by the party of Ledru-Rollin and Louis
Blanc, who held extravagant socialist or communist
opinions. The Assembly met on the 5 th of May,
pretty evenly balanced between the two antagonistic
parties. Mr. Appleton arrived in Paris just in time to
see the opening of the Assembly. A few days after-
ward he was present at a stormy meeting in the new
Chamber of Deputies, when its halls were invaded by
a mob. The excitement of that occasion was quelled
for the time. It was not until June that the struggle
took place in which the Archbishop of Paris lost his
life, when General Cavaignac, nominated as dictator,
restored order after six days of anarchy. On the
loth of December, 1848, Louis Napoleon was elected
President.
272 Thomas G. Appleton.
