... it seemed, she says, like returning to the living world after a long separation from it. Journeying by way of Naples, Marseilles, Avignon, they came at length to Paris. Here Julia first saw Rachel , and Taglioni, the greatest of all dancers; here, too, she tried to persuade the Chevalier to wear his Greek decorations to Guizot's reception, but tried in vain, he considering such ornaments unfitt...