Chapter 4

THE HUNDRED DAYS.

1815.

I immediately leave the Ministry of the Interior, to resume my Lectures.--Unsettled Feeling of the Middle Classes on the Return of Napoleon.--Its Real Causes.--Sentiments of Foreign Nations and Governments towards Napoleon.--Apparent Reconciliation, but Real Struggle, between Napoleon and the Liberals.--The Federates.--Carnot and Fouche.--Demonstration of Liberty during the Hundred Days, even in the Imperial Palace.--Louis XVIII. and his Council at Ghent.--The Congress and M. de Talleyrand at Vienna.--I go to Ghent on the part of the Constitutional Royalist Committee at Paris.--My Notions and Opinions during this Journey.--State of Parties at Ghent.--My Conversation with Louis XVIII.--M. de Blacas.--M. de Chateaubriand.--M. de Talleyrand returns from Vienna.--Louis XVIII. re-enters France.--Intrigue planned at Mons and defeated at Cambray.--Blindness and Imbecility of the Chamber of Representatives.--My Opinion respecting the Admission of Fouche into the King's Cabinet. 58