BOOK VII

I go to see my mother--Saint-Malo--Progress of the Revolution --My marriage--Paris--Old acquaintances and new--The Abbé Barthélemy--Saint-Ange--The theatres--Changes in Paris--The Club des Cordeliers--Marat--Danton--Camille Desmoulins--Fabre d'Églantine--M. de Malesherbes' opinion on the emigration--I play and lose--Adventure of the hackney-coach--Madame Roland--Barère at the Hermitage--Second Federation of the 14th of July--Preparations for the emigration--I emigrate with my brother--Adventure of Saint-Louis--We cross the frontier--Brussels--Dinner at the Baron de Breteuil's--Rivarol--Departure for the army of the Princes--The journey--I meet the Prussian army--I arrive at Trèves--The Army of the Princes--A Roman amphitheatre--_Atala_--The shirts of Henry IV.--A soldier's life--Last appearance of old military France--Commencement of the siege of Thionville--The Chevalier de La Baronnais--Continuation of the siege--A contrast--Saints in the woods--Battle of Bouvines--A patrol--An unexpected encounter--Effects of a cannon-ball and a shell--Market in camp--Night amid piled arms--The Dutch dog--A recollection of the _Martyrs_--The nature of my company--With the outposts--Eudora--Ulysses--Passage of the Moselle--A fight--Libba, the deaf and dumb girl--Assault of Thionville--The siege is raised--We enter Verdun--The Prussian evil--The retreat--Smallpox--The Ardennes--The Prince de Ligne's baggage-wagons--The women of Namur--I meet my brother at Brussels--Our last farewell--Ostend--I take passage for Jersey--I land at Guernsey--The pilot's wife--Jersey--My uncle de Bedée and his family--Description of the island--The Duc de Berry--Lost friends and relations--The misfortune of growing old--I go to England--Last meeting with Gesril