My Years in Paris #225409

I have a horror of people who talk so much, and do so little. The Italians asked the French to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them, and the French most foolishly (and how they must have regretted it later on!) set out with drawn swords to deliver the heroic Italians from the infamous yoke of Austria! Thinking people in France were absolutely anti-italian, while the Fau bourg St. Germain frankly detested them maybe because his Majesty had a certain amount of sympathy with them. The day after the troops entered Paris, the Emperor and Empress left for Biarritz, where they settled down at the Villa Eugenie.