CHAPTER XIII

A reading at Nodier's--The hearers and the readers--Début--_Les Marrons du feu_--La Camargo and the Abbé Desiderio--Genealogy of a dramatic idea--Orestes and Hermione--Chimène and Don Sancho--_Goetz von Berlichingen_--Fragments--How I render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's