CHAPTER X

The painter Lethière--Brutus unveiled by M. Ponsard--Madame Hannemann--Gohier--Andrieux--Renaud--Desgenettes--Larrey, Augereau and the Egyptian mummy--Soldiers of the new school--My dramatic education--I enter the offices of the Forestry Department--The cupboard full of empty bottles--Three days away from the office--Am summoned before M. Deviolaine.