The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

BOOK IV

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The castle of the Kings of Bohemia--First interview with Charles X.--Monsieur le Dauphin--The Children of France--The Duc and Duchesse de Guiche--The triumvirate--Mademoiselle--Conversation with the King--Dinner and evening at Hradschin--Visits--General Skrzynecki--Dinner at Count Chotek's--Whit Sunday--The Duc de Blacas--Casual observations--Tycho Brahe--Perdita: more casual observations--Bohemia--Slav and neo-Latin literature--I take leave of the King--Adieus--The children's letters to their mother--A Jew--The Saxon servant-girl--What I am leaving in Prague--The Duc de Bordeaux--Madame la Dauphine--Casual observations--Springs--Mineral waters--Historical memories--The Teplitz Valley--Its flora--Last conversation with the Dauphiness--My departure

APPENDIX

The Royal Ordinances of July 1830

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. V

Pope Pius VIII Henry IX. (Cardinal of York) Louise of Stolberg (Countess of Albany) Guizot The Princesse de Lieven Charles X Queen Hortense Henry V. (Duc de Bordeaux)

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