BOOK III

At Montboissier--Reminiscences of Combourg--Dinan College--Broussais--I return home--Life at Combourg--Our days and evenings--My donjon--Change from childhood to manhood--Lucile--Last lines written at the Vallée-aux-Loups--Revelations concerning the mystery of my life--A phantom of love--Two years of delirium--Occupations and illusions--My autumn joys--Incantation--Temptation--Illness--I fear and decline to enter the ecclesiastical state--A moment in my native town--Recollection of Villeneuve and the tribulations of my childhood--I am called back to Combourg--Last interview with my father--I enter the service--I bid farewell to Combourg