BOOK III

Entry of the Allies into Paris--Bonaparte at Fontainebleau--The Regency at Blois--Publication of my pamphlet _De Bonaparte et des Bourbons_--The Senate issues the decree of dethronement--The house in the Rue Saint-Florentin--M. de Talleyrand--Addresses of the Provisional Government--Constitution proposed by the Senate--Arrival of the Comte d'Artois--Bonaparte abdicates at Fontainebleau--Napoleon's itinerary to the island of Elba--Louis XVIII. at Compiègne--His entry into Paris--The Old Guard--An irreparable mistake--The Declaration of Saint-Ouen--Treaty of Paris--The Charter--Departure of the Allies--First year of the Restoration--First ministry--I publish my _Réflexions Politiques_--Madame la Duchesse de Duras--I am appointed Ambassador to Sweden--Exhumation of the remains of Louis XVI.--The first 21st of January at Saint-Denis