CHAPTER III

My dramatic faith wavers--Bocage and Dorval reconcile me with myself--A political trial wherein I deserved to figure--Downfall of the Laffitte Ministry--Austria and the Duc de Modena--Maréchal Maison is Ambassador at Vienna--The story of one of his dispatches--Casimir Périer Prime Minister--His reception at the Palais-Royal--They make him the _amende honorable_