My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831

My agreements with Dorval--I read _Antony_--Her impressions--She makes me alter the last act there and then--Merle's room--Bocage as artist--Bocage as negotiator--Reading to M....

Whilst the Duc d'Orléans was making his triumphal and happy entry into the Palais-Royal, six or eight young men were gathered together above the offices of the _National_ in the...

The drama of Saint-Leu--The bravery of the Duc d'Aumale--The arrest of MM. Peyronnet, Chantelauze, Guernon-Ranville and Polignac--Madame de Saint-Fargeau's servant--Thomas and M...

First performance of _la Mère et la Fille_--I have supper with Harel after the performance--Harel imprisons me after supper--I am sentenced to eight days' enforced work at _Napo...

Philippe VII.--How Béranger justified himself for having helped to make a King--The Duc d'Orléans during the three days--His arrival in Paris on the evening of the 30th--He send...

Aspect of the Louvre--Fight on the Pont des Arts--The dead and wounded--A cannon ball for myself--Madame Guyet-Desfontaines--Return from the Babylone barracks--Charras's cockade...

On 14 November of the year 1766, an open carriage, drawn by post-horses, containing three naval officers, one seated on the front seat and the other two on the back one,--which...

Léon Pillet--His uniform--Soissonnais susceptibility--Harel returns to the charge with his play--I set out for la Vendée--The quarry--I obtain pardon for a coiner condemned to t...

Invasion of the Artillery Museum--Armour of François I.--Charles IX.'s arquebuse--La place de l'Odéon--What Charras had been doing--The uniform of the École polytechnique--Millo...

First Orléanist proclamation--MM. Thiers and Scheffer go to Neuilly--The evening at Saint-Cloud--Charles X. revokes the Ordinances--Republican deputation at the Hôtel de Ville--...

Alexandre de la Borde--Odilon Barrot--Colonel Dumoulin--Hippolyte Bonnelier--My study--A note in Oudard's handwriting--The Duc de Chartres is arrested at Montrouge--The danger h...

M. Briffaut, Censor and Academician--History of _Ninus II._--M. de Lourdoueix--The idea of _Antony_--The piece received by the Français is stopped by the Censorship--The Duc de...

Gee up, Polignac!--André Marchais--Post-master at Bourget--I display the Tricolour on my carriage--Bard joins me--M. Cunin-Gridaine--Old Levasseur--Struggle with him--I blow out...

General La Fayette at the Hôtel de Ville--Charras and his men--"The Prunes of Monsieur"--The Municipal Commission--Its first Act--Casimir Périer's bank--General Gérard--The Duc...

Mission of four commissioners to Charles X.--General Pajol--He is appointed commander of the Paris Volunteers--Charras offers to be his aide-de-camp--The map of Seine-et-Oise--T...

Boyer the Cruel--The ten thousand rations of bread--General Exelmans and Charras--The concierge at the prefecture of Versailles--M. Aubernon--Colonel Poque--Interview of Charles...

The Mayor of Soissons--The excise-office powder--M. Jousselin--The hatchet belonging to the warehouse-keeper--M. Quinette--I break open the door of the powder magazine--Triumpha...

Confidential letter from Louis-Philippe to the Emperor Nicholas--The Czar's reply--What France could do after the Revolution of July--Louis-Philippe and Ferdinand VII.--The Span...

A passing cab--Madame Dorval in the _Incendiaire_--Two actresses--The Duc d'Orléans asks for the Cross of the Legion of Honour on my behalf--His recommendation has no effect--M....

The first representation of _Hernani_--The old ace of spades--The old man has a quarrel--Parodies--Origin of the story of Cabrion and of Pipelet--Eugène Sue and Desmares--Soulié...

Why the Duc d'Orléans' recommendation on the subject of my croix d'honneur failed--The indemnity of a milliard--La Fayette's journey to Auvergne--His reception at Grenoble, Vizi...

The morning of July 27--Visit to my mother--Paul Foucher-_Amy Robsart_--Armand Carrel--The office of the _Temps_--Baude--The Commissary of Police--The three locksmiths--The offi...

I go in search of Oudard--The house at the corner of the rue de Rohan--Oudard is with Laffitte--Degousée--General Pajol and M. Dupin--The officers of the 53rd Regiment--Interior...

Letter of Charles X. to the Duc d'Orléans--A conjuring trick--Return of the Duc de Chartres to the Palais-Royal--Bourbons and Valois--Abdication of Charles X.--Preparations for...

The aspect of the rue de Richelieu--Charras--L'École polytechnique--The head with the wig--The café of the Porte Saint-Honoré--The tricoloured flag--I become head of a troop--My...

I am officially received into the Artillery Corps of the National Guard--_Antony_ is put under rehearsal at the Théâtre-Français--Ill-will of the actors--Treaty between Hugo and...

How matters had proceeded with the sacristan--The four-inch gun--Bard as gunner--The commander of the fort--Lieutenant Tinga--M. de Lenferna--M. Bonvilliers--Madame de Linières-...

Alphonse Karr--The cuirassier--The medal of life saving and the Cross of the Légion d'honneur--Karr's home at Montmartre--_Sous les tilleuls_ and the critics--The taking of Algi...

Harel's idea--It is suggested I should compose _La Parisienne_--Auguste Barbier--My state of morals after the Three Days--I turn solicitor--Breakfast with General La Fayette--My...

Oudard tells me that Louis-Philippe wishes to see me--Visit to M. Deviolaine--Hutin, supernumerary horse-guardsman--My interview with the king about la Vendée and the policy of...

The third storey of No. 7 in the rue de l'Université--The first results of the Ordinances--The café du Roi--Étienne Arago--François Arago--The Academy--La Bourse--Le Palais-Roya...

We kept strictly to the route agreed on. A quarter of an hour after our departure from the quai de l'Horloge, we issued forth by the little street of Glatigny. We arrived in the...

Breakfast on deck--Saint-Nazaire--A thing husbands never think of--Noirmontiers--Belle-Ile--I leave the two Paulines--The rope-ladder--The ship's boat--A total immersion--The in...

Le Bocage--Its deep lanes and hedges--The Chouan tactics--Vendean horses and riders--Vendean politics--The Marquis de la Bretèche and his farmers--The means I suggested to preve...

The Duc d'Orléans goes to the Hôtel de Ville--M. Laffitte in his sedan-chair--The king _sans culotte_--Tardy manifestation of the Provisional Government--Odilon Barrot sleeps on...

"Against the principal leaders--Laffitte, Casimir Périer and La Fayette.... They called upon these persons yesterday: one told them to keep quiet, whilst others did not even see...

Nantes, like Paris, had had its revolution; its Raguse, who had given orders to fire upon the people; and its people, who had crushed Raguse. They pointed out houses to me that...

A warning to Parisian sportsmen--Clisson--The château of M. Lemot--My guide--The Vendean column--The battle of Torfou--Two omitted names--Piffanges--Tibulle and the Loire--Gille...

The soirée on 31 May 1830 at the Palais-Royal--The King of Naples--A question of etiquette--How the King of France ought to be addressed--The real Charles X.--M. de Salvandy--Th...

Mademoiselle Georges' house--Harel and Jules Janin--Young Tom and Popol--The latter's prayer against cholera--Georges' Oriental style of living--Her cleanliness--Harel's fault t...

We went back to the boulevards again from the office of the _National._ At the top of the rue Montmartre we heard what sounded like firing, in the direction of the Palais-Royal....

Arrival at Soissons--Strategic preparations--Reconnaissance round the magazine--Hutin and Bard plant the tricolour flag upon the cathedral--I climb the wall of the powder magazi...

Next day I was awakened by Signol. A minute after his return to the garden of the Palais-Royal, he had been compelled to leave it at the point of a bayonet. He seemed to me to b...

The soirée on 31 May 1830 at the Palais-Royal--The King of Naples--A question of etiquette--How the King of France ought to be addressed--The real Charles X.--M. de Salvandy--Th...

Philippe VII.--How Béranger justified himself for having helped to make a King--The Duc d'Orléans during the three days--His arrival in Paris on the evening of the 30th--He send...

I go in search of Oudard--The house at the corner of the rue de Rohan--Oudard is with Laffitte--Degousée--General Pajol and M. Dupin--The officers of the 53rd Regiment--Interior...

Why the Duc d'Orléans' recommendation on the subject of my croix d'honneur failed--The indemnity of a milliard--La Fayette's journey to Auvergne--His reception at Grenoble, Vizi...

Alexander de la Borde--Odilon Barrot--Colonel Dumoulin--Hippolyte Bonnelier--My study--A note in Oudard's handwriting--The Duc de Chartres is arrested at Montrouge--The danger h...

The first representation of _Hernani_--The old ace of spades--The old man has a quarrel--Parodies--Origin of the story of Cabrion and of Pipelet--Eugène Sue and Desmares--Soulié...

First performance of _la Mère et la Fille_--I have supper with Harel after the performance--Harel imprisons me after supper--I am sentenced to eight days' enforced work at _Napo...

I am officially received into the Artillery Corps of the National Guard--_Antony_ is put under rehearsal at the Théâtre-Français--Ill-will of the actors--Treaty between Hugo and...

The Duc d'Orléans goes to the Hôtel de Ville--M. Laffitte in his sedan-chair--The king _sans culotte_--Tardy manifestation of the Provisional Government--Odilon Barrot sleeps on...

M. Briffaut, Censor and Academician--History of _Ninus II._--M. de Lourdoueix--The idea of _Antony_--The piece received by the Français is stopped by the Censorship--The Duc de...

Letter of Charles X. to the Duc d'Orléans--A conjuring trick--Return of the Duc de Chartres to the Palais-Royal--Bourbons and Valois--Abdication of Charles X.--Preparations for...

How matters had proceeded with the sacristan--The four-inch gun--Bard as gunner--The commander of the fort--Lieutenant Tinga--M. de Lenferna--M. Bonvilliers--Madame de Linières-...

Léon Pillet--His uniform--Soissonnais susceptibility--Hard returns to the charge with his play--I set out for la Vendée--The quarry--I obtain pardon for a coiner condemned to th...

The drama of Saint-Leu--The bravery of the Duc d'Aumale--The arrest of MM. Peyronnet, Chantelauze, Guernon-Ranville and Polignac--Madame de Saint-Fargeau's servant--Thomas and M...

Alphonse Karr--The cuirassier--The medal for life saving and the Cross of the Légion d'honneur--Karr's home at Montmartre--_Sous les tilleuls_ and the critics--The taking of Alg...

The Mayor of Soissons--The excise-office powder--M. Jousselin-- The hatchet belonging to the warehouse-keeper--M. Quinette--I break open the door of the powder magazine--Triumph...

Oudard tells me that Louis-Philippe wishes to see me--Visit to M. Deviolaine--Hutin, supernumerary horse-guardsman--My interview with the king about la Vendée and the policy of...

My agreements with Dorval--I read _Antony_--Her impressions-- She makes me alter the last act there and then--Merle's room--Bocage as artist--Bocage as negotiator--Reading to M....

The third storey of No. 7 in the rue de l'Université--The first results of the Ordinances--The café du Roi--Étienne Arago--François Arago--The Academy--La Bourse--Le Palais-Roya...

Aspect of the Louvre--Fight on the Pont des Arts--The dead and wounded--A cannon ball for myself--Madame Guyet-Desfontaines--Return from the Babylone barracks--Charras's cockade...

Mission of four commissioners to Charles X.--General Pajol--He is appointed commander of the Paris Volunteers--Charras offers to be his aide-de-camp--The map of Seine-et-Oise--T...

Boyer the Cruel--The ten thousand rations of bread--General Exelmans and Charras--The concierge at the prefecture of Versailles--M. Aubernon--Colonel Poque--Interview of Charles...

The aspect of the rue de Richelieu--Charras--L'École polytechnique--The head with the wig--The café of the Porte Saint-Honoré--The tricoloured flag--I become head of a troop--My...

A passing cab--Madame Dorval in the _Incendiaire_--Two actresses--The Duc d'Orléans asks for the Cross of the Legion of Honour on my behalf--His recommendation has no effect--M....

General La Fayette at the Hôtel de Ville--Charras and his men--"The Prunes of Monsieur"--The Municipal Commission--Its first Act--Casimir Périer's bank--General Gérard--The Duc...

First Orléanist proclamation--MM. Thiers and Scheffer go to Neuilly--The evening at Saint-Cloud--Charles X. revokes the Ordinances--Republican deputation at the Hôtel de Ville--...

Le Bocage--Its deep lanes and hedges--The Chouan tactics--Vendean horses and riders--Vendean politics--The Marquis de la Bretèche and his farmers--The means I suggested to preve...

Mademoiselle Georges' house--Harel and Jules Janin--Young Tom and Popol--The latter's prayer against cholera--Georges' Oriental style of living--Her cleanliness--Harel's fault t...

Invasion of the Artillery Museum--Armour of François I.--Charles IX.'s arquebuse--La place de l'Odéon--What Charras had been doing--The uniform of the École polytechnique--Millo...

Gee up, Polignac!--André Marchais--Post-master at Bourget--I display the Tricolour on my carriage--Bard joins me--M. Cunin-Gridaine--Old Levasseur--Struggle with him--I blow out...

Harel's idea--It is suggested I should compose _La Parisienne_--Auguste Barbier--My state of morals after the Three Days--I turn solicitor--Breakfast with General La Fayette--My...

A warning to Parisian sportsmen--Clisson--The château of M. Lemot--My guide--The Vendean column--The battle of Torfou--Two omitted names--Piffanges--Tibulle and the Loire--Gille...

Confidential letter from Louis-Philippe to the Emperor Nicholas--The Czar's reply--What France could do after the Revolution of July--Louis-Philippe and Ferdinand VII.--The Span...

The morning of July 27--Visit to my mother--Paul Foucher--_Amy Robsart_--Armand Carrel--The office of the _Temps_--Baude--The Commissary of Police--The three locksmiths--The off...

Arrival at Soissons--Strategic preparations--Reconnaissance round the magazine--Hutin and Bard plant the tricolour flag upon the cathedral--I climb the wall of the powder magazi...

Breakfast on deck--Saint-Nazaire--A thing husbands never think of--Noirmontiers --Belle-Ile--I leave the two Paulines--The rope-ladder--The ship's boat--A total immersion--The i...