Journal containing holograph notes on two of Nassau William Senior's visits to Paris, 14-27 May 1848 and 12-22 May 1849. The political situation in France is discussed with a number of leading politicians and diplomats, including: Lord Normanby (1797-1863); Leon Faucher (1806-54); Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59); Horace Say (1794-1860); Gustave de Beaumont (1802-60); Count Arrivabene (1787-1881); Claude Bastiati (1801-79); Michel Chevalier (1806-79); Victor Cousin (1792-1867); Count Louis Mathieu Mole' (1781-1855); Mrs Grote (1792-1878); Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877); Louis Wollowski (1810-76); Louis Joseph Buffet (1818-98); Jenny Lind (1820-87); George La Fayette (1779-1849); Claude de Corcelle (1802-92); James Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-77); Lord Abercromby (1776-1858) et al. There are descriptions of the French Assembly and Cour d'Assises, and of the events of the 1848 Revolution.
[Published in: (i) Journals Kept in France and Italy From 1848 to 1858, ed. by M. C. M. Simpson, vol. I, pp. 91-164; and (ii) Correspondence and Conversations with Count Alexis de Tocqueville (1834-59), ed. by M. C. M. Simpson, vol. I, pp. 41-51].