BOOK I

Introduction--Trial of the ministers-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois--Pillage of the Archbishop's Palace--My pamphlet on the _Restauration et la Monarchie élective_--_Études historiques_--Letters to Madame Récamier--Geneva--Lord Byron--Ferney and Voltaire--Useless journey to Paris--M. Armand Carrel--M. de Béranger--The Baude and Briqueville proposition for the banishment of the Elder Branch of the Bourbons--Letter to the author of the _Némésis_--Conspiracy of the Rue des Prouvaires--Letter to Madame la Duchesse de Berry--Epidemics--The cholera--Madame La Duchesse de Berry's 12,000 francs--General Lamarque's funeral--Madame La Duchesse de Berry lands in Provence and arrives in the Vendée