My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833

Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball--I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates--My artist-decorators--The question of the supper--I go for provisions to...

Sequel to the preparations for my ball--Oil and distemper--Inconveniences of working at night--How Delacroix did his task--The ball--Serious men--La Fayette and Beauchene--Varie...

Doligny manager of the theatre in Italy--Saint-Germain bitten by the tarantula--How they could have livened up Versailles if Louis-Philippe had wished it--The censorship of the...

A few words on _La Tour de Nesle_ and M. Frédérick Gaillardet--The _Revue des Deux Mondes_--M. Buloz--The _Journal des Voyages_--My first attempt at Roman history--_Isabeau de B...

Success of my _Scènes historiques_--Clovis and Hlodewig (Chlodgwig)--I wish to apply myself seriously to the study of the history of France--The Abbé Gauthier and M. de Moyencou...

An invasion of cholera--Aspect of Paris--Medicine and the scourge--Proclamation of the Prefect of Police--The supposed poisoners--Harel's newspaper paragraph--Mademoiselle Dupon...

My régime against the cholera--I am attacked by the epidemic --I invent etherisation--Harel comes to suggest to me _La Tour de Nesle_--Verteuil's manuscript--Janin and the tirad...

M. Gaillardet's answer and protest--Frédérick and Buridan's part--Transaction with M. Gaillardet--First performance of _La Tour de Nesle_--The play and its interpreters--The day...

The use of friends--_Le Musée des Familles_--An article by M. Gaillardet--My reply to it--Challenge from M. Gaillardet --I accept it with effusion--My adversary demands a first...

Sword and pistol--Whence arose my aversion to the latter weapon--Philippe's puppet--The statue of Corneille--An autograph _in extremis_--Le bois de Vincennes--A duelling toilet-...

The masquerade of the budget at Grenoble--M. Maurice Duval--The serenaders--Escapade of the 35th of the line--The insurrection it excites--Arrest of General Saint-Clair--Taking...

General Dermoncourt's papers--Protest of Charles X. against the usurpation of the Duc d'Orléans--The stoutest of political men--Attempt at restoration planned by Madame la duche...

Madame's itinerary--Panic--M. de Puylaroque--_Domine salvum fac Philippum_--The château de Dampierre--Madame de la Myre--The pretended cousin and the curé--M. Guibourg--M. de Bo...

Interview between MM. Berryer and de Bourmont--The messenger's guides--The movable column--M. Charles--Madame's hiding-place--Madame refuses to leave la Vendée--She rallies her...

Last moments of General Lamarque--What his life had been-- One of my interviews with him--I am appointed one of the stewards of the funeral cortège--The procession--Symptoms of...

The artillerymen--Carrel and _le National_--Barricades of the boulevard Bourdon and in the rue de Ménilmontant-- The carriage of General La Fayette--A bad shot from my friends--...

Inside the barricade Saint-Merry, according to a Parisian child's account--General Tiburce Sébastiani--Louis-Philippe during the insurrection--M. Guizot--MM. François Arago, Laf...

_Le Fils de l'Émigré_--I learn the news of my premature death--I am advised to take a voyage for prudence and health's sake--I choose Switzerland--Gosselin's literary opinion on...

Prince Metternich is appointed to teach the history of Napoleon to the Duc de Reichstadt--The Duke's plan of political conduct--The poet Barthélemy at Vienna--His interviews wit...

Journey of the Duc de Reichstadt--M. le Chevalier de Prokesch--Questions concerning the recollections left by _Napoléon en Égypte_--The ambition of the Duc de Reichstadt--The Co...

News of France--First performance of _Le Fils de l'Émigré_-- What _Le Constitutionnel_ thought of it--Effect produced by that play on the Parisian population in general and on M...

La Duchesse de Berry returns to Nantes disguised as a peasant woman--The basket of apples--The house Duguigny--Madame in her hiding-place--Simon Deutz--His antecedents--His miss...

M. Maurice Duval is made Préfet of the Loire-Inférieure-- The Nantais give him a charivari--Deutz's persistent attempts to see Madame--He obtains a first and then a second audie...

First moments after the arrest--Madame's 13,000 francs--What a gendarme can win by sleeping on a camp-bed and making philosophic reflections thereon--The duchess at the Château...

Eugène Sue is ambitious enough to have a groom, horse and trap--He does business with the maison Ermingot, Godefroi et Cie which permits him to gratify that fancy--Triumph at th...

Eugène Sue's début in journalism--_L'Homme-Mouche_--The merino sheep--Eugène Sue in the Navy--He takes part in the battle of Navarino--He furnishes a house--The last folly of yo...

Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball--I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates--My artist-decorators--The question of the supper--I go for provisions to...

The first who appears to me, because he was the first who left us, is pale and sad as he was when living. His hair is cut short, his forehead is prominent, his glance is both gl...

The whisper dies away and the shade disappears. Another shade comes out of the ground and advances as silently as the first, but with a more rapid step. One felt that, in this c...

Delicate and sarcastic smile, eyes sparkling with intelligence, a satirical mouth, short figure and large heart and a delightful tincture of melancholy perceptible everywhere--t...

Grandville disappeared. Did he mount up to heaven on the rays of one of those stars with the faces of women, to whom he made love? Did he lie down to sleep in the tomb, to liste...

Sequel to the preparations for my ball--Oil and distemper --Inconveniences of working at night--How Delacroix did his task --The ball--Serious men--La Fayette and Beauchene--Var...

This is what _Dix ans de la vie d'une femme_ was like. Adèle Évrard has married M. Darcey, a rich landowner, a worthy and excellent man, full of concern for, attention towards a...

Doligny manager of the theatre in Italy--Saint-Germain bitten by the tarantula--How they could have livened up Versailles if Louis-Philippe had wished it--The censorship of the...

A few words on _La Tour de Nesle_ and M. Frédérick Gaillardet--The _Revue des Deux Mondes_--M. Buloz--The _Journal des Voyages_--My first attempt at Roman history--_Isabeau de B...

Success of my _Scènes historiques_--Clovis and Hlodewig (Chlodgwig) --I wish to apply myself seriously to the study of the history of France--The Abbé Gauthier and M. de Moyenco...

Here is the story of _Édith aux longs cheveux_; you will meet her again under another name, clad in another garb and, instead of moving along in five acts, dragging behind her a...

An invasion of cholera--Aspect of Paris--Medicine and the scourge --Proclamation of the Prefect of Police--The supposed poisoners--Harel's newspaper paragraph--Mademoiselle Dupo...

My régime against the cholera--I am attacked by the epidemic--I invent etherisation--Harel comes to suggest to me _La Tour de Nesle_--Verteuil's manuscript--Janin and the tirade...

M. Gaillardet's answer and protest--Frédérick and Buridan's part --Transaction with M. Gaillardet--First performance of _La Tour de Nesle_--The play and its interpreters--The da...

The use of friends--_Le Musée des Familles_--An article by M. Gaillardet--My reply to it--Challenge from M. Gaillardet--I accept it with effusion--My adversary demands a first r...

"Finally, if I asked M. Dumas for my _first_ MS. through a sheriff's officer, it was because it was, on his part, incredible disloyalty to put side by side with this _sole_ and...

Sword and pistol--Whence arose my aversion to the latter weapon--Philippe's puppet--The statue of Corneille--An autograph _in extremis_--Le bois de Vincennes--A duelling toilet-...

The masquerade of the budget at Grenoble--M. Maurice Duval--The serenaders--Escapade of the 35th of the line--The insurrection it excites--Arrest of General Saint-Clair--Taking...

General Dermoncourt's papers--Protest of Charles X. against the usurpation of the Duc d'Orléans--The stoutest of political men--Attempt at restoration planned by Madame la duche...

Madame's itinerary--Panic--M. de Puylaroque--_Domine salvum fac Philippum_--The château de Dampierre--Madame de la Myre--The pretended cousin and the curé--M. Guibourg--M. de Bo...

Interview between MM. Berryer and de Bourmont--The messenger's guides--The movable column--M. Charles--Madame's hiding-place--Madame refuses to leave la Vendée--She rallies her...

Last moments of General Lamarque--What his life had been--One of my interviews with him--I am appointed one of the stewards of the funeral cortège--The procession--Symptoms of p...

The artillerymen--Carrel and _le National_--Barricades of the boulevard Bourdon and in the rue de Ménilmontant--The carriage of General La Fayette--A bad shot from my friends--D...

Inside the barricade Saint-Merry, according to a Parisian child's account--General Tiburce Sébastiani--Louis-Philippe during the insurrection--M. Guizot--MM. François Arago, Laf...

_Le Fils de l'Émigré_--I learn the news of my premature death--I am advised to take a voyage for prudence and health's sake--I choose Switzerland--Gosselin's literary opinion on...

It is one of the singular features of my life to have known all the princes; and, with the most Republican ideas imaginable, to have been attached to them with the deepest affec...

I told in due place how, in 1835, I was shamefully driven out of Genoa and how triumphantly I returned there in 1838. May I be permitted a slight digression here on princes and...

The Duc de Reichstadt had, indeed, died on 22 July, at eight minutes past five in the morning, the anniversary day on which letters-patent from the emperor had appointed him Duc...

It was at Schönbrünn, in the same palace in which the emperor lived during 1805, after Austerlitz, and, in 1809, after Wagram, that Marie-Louis and her son were received by the...

Prince Metternich is appointed to teach the history of Napoleon to the Duc de Reichstadt--The duke's plan of political conduct--The poet Barthélemy at Vienna--His interviews wit...

Journey of the Duc de Reichstadt--M. le Chevalier de Prokesch--Questions concerning the recollections left by _Napoléon en Égypte_--The ambition of the Duc de Reichstadt--The Co...

The Duc de Reichstadt's stay at Schönbrünn was favourable to his health. The prince went on horseback daily to the great manœuvres, but with the commander-general; this was the...

I have already said that I have no intention of beginning over again my account of my peregrinations through Switzerland. However, I will ask my reader's leave to place before h...

News of France--First performance of _Le Fils de l'Émigré_--What _Le Constitutionnel_ thought of it--Effect produced by that play on the Parisian population in general and on M....

La Duchesse de Berry returns to Nantes disguised as a peasant woman--The basket of apples--The house Duguigny--Madame in her hiding-place--Simon Deutz--His antecedents--His miss...

M. Maurice Duval is made Préfet of the Loire-Inférieure--The Nantais give him a charivari--Deutz's persistent attempts to see Madame--He obtains a first and then a second audien...

First moments after the arrest--Madame's 13,000 francs--What a gendarme can win by sleeping on a camp-bed and making philosophic reflections thereon--The duchess at the Château...

Whilst M. Thiers's police were arresting Madame la duchesse de Berry at Nantes, the censorship was stopping the drama of _Le Roi s'amuse_ at Paris. The performance had taken pla...

Let us return to the political trials which were a feature of the close of the year 1832. Of course, at this period, a political trial was thought more of than a literary one, a...

As this blood-stained year 1832 drew to a close, in which cholera alone had deducted from the population of France a tithe of ninety-five thousand deaths, the authorities of Bom...

Now let us say a few words about the literary productions of the year 1832. We have seen its important theatrical works: _Térésa, Louis XI., Dix Ans de la vie d'une femme, Un du...

La Calle is still peopled by members of this family, which, probably, composes half the population. It was from here that, towards the close of the reign of Louis XIV., a young,...

Eugène Sue is ambitious enough to have a groom, horse and trap--He does business with the maison Ermingot, Godefroi et Cie which permits him to gratify that fancy--Triumph at th...

Eugène Sue's début in journalism--_l'Homme-Mouche_--The merino sheep--Eugène Sue in the Navy--He takes part in the battle of Navarino--He furnishes a house--The last foil of you...

At the beginning of the year 1833 which now opens before us, the eyes of all France were turned towards the Château de Blaye, in which Madame la duchesse de Berry had been incar...

In the midst of all this a great literary event had happened. Victor Hugo had had his first prose drama, _Lucrèce Borgia,_ performed at the théâtre Porte-Saint-Martin. It is dif...

In one of the preceding volumes of these _Souvenirs,_ we amused ourselves by enumerating the plays that the Théâtre-Français acted in 1830 to 1834, whilst the Porte-Saint-Martin...

We have told what Talma's education had been. Brought early to Paris, taken to London at the age of eight or nine, his earliest enthusiasm had been for Shakespeare. When he retu...

Nous avons promis, on se le rappelle, de compulser les archives du conseil d'État, et de donner un extrait de cinq ou six séances où fut débattue, devant la commission formée po...