Meissonier, his life and his art . MEISSONIER S^FATHER. as the Lyonnais set, underthe Restoration. At a timewhen Vestris was still a nameto conjure with, he was oneof the most famous dancersof his day ; he and two orthree friends as enthusiasticas himself would make upsets for quadrilles at even-ing parties, and all the restof the company would leaveoff dancing to look on,standing up on the chairsto get a good view. Hehad also a taste for music,played the flute and sang IOKTKAI 1 . li : S MOTHER. ballads. But though ad-dicted to those social pleasures which are allied to the arts,. EARLY YEARS
Meissonier, his life and his art . MEISSONIER S^FATHER. as the Lyonnais set, underthe Restoration. At a timewhen Vestris was still a nameto conjure with, he was oneof the most famous dancersof his day ; he and two orthree friends as enthusiasticas himself would make upsets for quadrilles at even-ing parties, and all the restof the company would leaveoff dancing to look on,standing up on the chairsto get a good view. Hehad also a taste for music,played the flute and sang IOKTKAI 1 . li : S MOTHER. ballads. But though ad-dicted to those social pleasures which are allied to the arts,. EARLY YEARS 7 M. Meissonier was pre-eminently a man of business, and he intendedto bring up his two sons to his own trade. The premature death of Madame Meissonier upset the arrange-ments for the boys education. Before he was sent to the LyceeCharlemagne, he had been for a time at a boarding-school at Chaillot,during an illness of his mothers. All he remembered of this place washis childish terror when he had to go back in the evening after a daysholiday, and pass the wood of the Champs-Elysees, so dark andmarshy. His return to Chaillot was suggested, but his father had anintimate friend at Grenoble, a professor, who was afterwards Dean ofthe Faculty of Science. This friend agreed to receive the child in hishouse, and let him attend the college classes. After a journey of fourdays and three nights spent in the depths of the stage-coach, wherean old lady took possession of the corner his father had securedfor him, Meissonier arrived at Lyons, and fell into the arms ofM. and Madame Feri
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