Chapter III: The Hundred Days

1815.

I immediately leave the Ministry of the Interior, to resume my
Lectures.--Unsettled Feeling of the Middle Classes on the Return
of Napoleon.--Its Real Causes.--Sentiments of Foreign Nations
and Governments towards Napoleon.--Apparent Reconciliation,
but Real Struggle, between Napoleon and the Liberals.--The
Federates.--Carnot and Fouche.--Demonstration of Liberty
during the Hundred Days, even in the Imperial Palace.--Louis XVIII.
and his Council at Ghent.--The Congress and M. de Talleyrand
at Vienna.--I go to Ghent on the part of the Constitutional
Royalist Committee at Paris.--My Notions and Opinions during this
Journey.--State of Parties at Ghent.--My Conversation with
Louis XVIII.--M. de Blacas.--M. de Chateaubriand.--M. de Talleyrand
returns from Vienna.--Louis XVIII. re-enters France.--Intrigue
planned at Mons and defeated at Cambray.--Blindness and Imbecility of
the Chamber of Representatives.--My Opinion respecting the Admission
of Fouche into the King's Cabinet. 58