CHAPTER X

Léopoldine--The opinions of the son of the Vendéenne--The Delon conspiracy--Hugo offers Delon shelter--Louis XVIII. bestows a pension of twelve hundred francs on the author of the _Odes et Ballades_--The poet at the office of the director-general des postes--How he learns the existence of the _cabinet noir_--He is made a chevalier of the Legion d'honneur--Beauchesne-_Bug-Jargal_--The Ambassador of Austria's soirée--_Ode à la Colonne_--_Cromwell_--How _Marion Delorme_ was written.