...ived, too, several visits, among the rest a long one from the Circourts, two of the most gifted and admirable persons we have known during our absence . . . . In the evening I went to Thiers' and Guizot 's, that I might finish my impressions of French society by its appearance in the two salons in Paris whose political consequence is the most grave, whose avenir, as the French call it, is the most br...