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In contrast to Soho, the old parish of St Mary-le-Bone housed the elite of emigration.1 The early years, 1789–94, were characterised by conspicuous consumption; the latter ones, 1795–1802, by an elegant sufficiency. But throughout the period, the lifestyle of the émigrés who lived in these areas provided a stark contrast with the inhabitants of Soho, Somerstown and St George’s Fields. The politics were exclusively royalist or ultra-royalist and this was reinforced by the arrival in London of the comte d’Artois and the duc de Berry in 1799 and the Prince de Condé in 1802.
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Carpenter, K. (1999). Marylebone, Richmond, Hampstead — the High Life. In: Refugees of the French Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501645_5
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