BOOK XIV

Sycophancy of the newspapers--M. de Polignac's first colleagues--The Algerian Expedition--Opening of the Session of 1830--The Address--The Chamber is dissolved--New Chamber--I leave for Dieppe--The Ordinances of the 25th of July--I return to Paris--Reflexions on the journey--Letter to Madame Récamier--The Revolution of July--M. Baude, M. de Choiseul, M. de Sémonville, M. de Vitrolles, M. Laffitte, and M. Thiers--I write to the King at Saint-Cloud--His verbal answer--Aristocratic corps--Pillage of the house of the missionaries in the Rue d'Enfer--The Chamber of Deputies--M. de Mortemart--A walk through Paris--General Dubourg--Funeral ceremony--Under the colonnade of the Louvre--The young men carry me back to the House of Peers--Meeting of the Peers