THE MEMOIRS OF FRANÇOIS RENÉ
VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
SOMETIME AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND
BEING A TRANSLATION BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
OF THE MÉMOIRES D'OUTRE-TOMBE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES. In 6 Volumes. Vol. III
"NOTRE SANG A TEINT
LA BANNIÈRE DE FRANCE"
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY FREEMANTLE
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CONTENTS
VOLUME III
BOOK V 3-41
The years 1807, 1808, 1809 and 1810—Article in the Mercure ofJuly 1807—I purchase the Vallée-aux-Loups and retire to it—TheMartyrs—Armand de Chateaubriand—The years 1811, 1812, 1813,1814—Publication of the Itinéraire—Letter from the Cardinal deBausset—Death of Chénier—I become a member of the Institute—Theaffair of my speech—The decennial prizes—The Essai sur lesRévolutions—The Natchez.
PART THE THIRD
1814-1830
BOOKS I AND II 45-58
The last days of the Empire
BOOK III 59-105
Entry of the Allies into Paris—Bonaparte at Fontainebleau—TheRegency at Blois—Publication of my pamphlet De Bonaparte et desBourbons—The Senate issues the decree of dethronement—The housein the Rue Saint-Florentin—M. de Talleyrand—Addresses of theProvisional Government—Constitution proposed by the Senate—Arrival ofthe Comte d'Artois—Bonaparte abdicates at Fontainebleau—Napoleon'sitinerary to the island of Elba—Louis XVIII. at Compiègne—His entryinto Paris—The Old Guard—An irreparable mistake—The Declarationof Saint-Ouen—Treaty of Paris—The Charter—Departure of theAllies—First year of the Restoration—First ministry—I publish myRéflexions Politiques—Madame la Duchesse de Duras—I am appointedAmbassador to Sweden—Exhumation of the remains of Louis XVI.—Thefirst 21st of January at Saint-Denis
BOOK IV 106-148
Napoleon at Elba—Commencement of the Hundred Days—The return fromElba—Torpor of the Legitimacy—Article by Benjamin Constant—Orderof the day of Marshal Soult—A royal session—Petition ofthe School of Law to the Chamber of Deputies—Plan for thedefense of Paris—Flight of the King—I leave with Madame deChateaubriand—Confusion on the road—The Duc d'Orléans and the Princede Condé—Tournai—Brussels—Memories—The Duc de Richelieu—TheKing summons me to join him at Ghent—The Hundred Days atGhent—Continuation of the Hundred Days at Ghent—Affairs in Vienna
BOOK V 149-184
The Hundred Days in Paris—Effect of the passage of the Legitimacyin France—Bonaparte's astonishment—He is obliged to capitulateto ideas which he thought smothered—His new system—Threeenormous gamblers remain—Illusions of the Liberals—Clubsand Federates—Juggling away of the Republic: the AdditionalAct—Convocation of the Chamber of Representatives—A uselessChamp de Mai—Cares and bitterness of Bonaparte—Resolution inVienna—Movement in Paris—What we were doing at Ghent—M. deBlacas—The Battle of Waterloo—Confusion at Ghent—What theBattle of Waterloo