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Excerpt from Joseph Octave Delepierre; Born, 12 March, 1802, Died, 18 August, 1879: In Memoriam; For a Few Friends Only
To me. (letter XL, Bruges, 30 Sept. Other foreigners of distinction who shared his hospitality were the late Lord Lytton, then Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Dr. Dibdin, the emi nent bibliographer, the celebrated Charles Nodier, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Michelet, Collin de Plancy, author of the Dictionnaire Infernal, and others. By way of parenthesis, we may mention that when the late Prince Consort, as the affianced of Queen Victoria, accompanied by his brother, Prince Ernest, passed through Bruges on his way to England, the authorities delegated M. Delepierre to act as his cicerone.
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