The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3

BOOK IV

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Napoleon at Elba--Commencement of the Hundred Days--The return from Elba--Torpor of the Legitimacy--Article by Benjamin Constant--Order of the day of Marshal Soult--A royal session--Petition of the School of Law to the Chamber of Deputies--Plan for the defense of Paris--Flight of the King--I leave with Madame de Chateaubriand--Confusion on the road--The Duc d'Orléans and the Prince de Condé--Tournai--Brussels--Memories--The Duc de Richelieu--The King summons me to join him at Ghent--The Hundred Days at Ghent--Continuation of the Hundred Days at Ghent--Affairs in Vienna