BOOK IV

Berlin--Potsdam--Frederic the Great--My brother--My cousin Moreau--My sister, the Comtesse de Farcy--Julie a worldly woman--Dinner--Pommereul--Madame de Chastenay--Cambrai--The Navarre Regiment--La Martinière--Death of my father--My regrets--Would my father have appreciated me?--I return to Brittany--I stay with my eldest sister--My brother sends for me to Paris--First inspiration of the muse--My lonely life in Paris--I am presented at Versailles--I hunt with the King--Adventure with my mare _Heureuse_