BOOK III

The Infirmerie de Marie-Thérèse--Letter from Madame la Duchesse de Berry from the Citadel of Blaye--Departure from Paris--M. de Talleyrand's calash--Basle--Journal from Paris to Prague, from the 14th to the 24th of May 1833, written in pencil in the carriage, in ink at the inns--The banks of the Rhine--Falls of the Rhine--Mösskirch--A storm--The Danube--Ulm--Blenheim--Louis XIV.--An Hercynian forest--The Barbarians--Sources of the Danube--Ratisbon--Decrease in social life as one goes farther from France--Religious feelings of the Germans--Arrival at Waldmünchen--The Austrian custom-house--I am refused admission into Bohemia--Stay at Waldmünchen--Letters to Count Choteck--Anxiety--The Viaticum--The chapel--My room at the inn--Description of Waldmünchen--Letter from Count Choteck--The peasant-girl--I leave Waldmünchen and enter Bohemia--A pine forest--Conversation with the moon--Pilsen--The high-roads of the North-View of Prague