Chapter I: Book VII

I go to see my mother--Saint-Malo--Progress of the Revolution --My marriage--Paris--Old acquaintances and new--The Abbé Barthélemy--Saint-Ange--The theatres--Changes in Paris--The Club des Cordeliers--Marat--Danton--Camille Desmoulins--Fabre d'Églantine--M. de Malesherbes' opinion on the emigration--I play and lose--Adventure of the hackney-coach--Madame Roland--Barère at the Hermitage--Second Federation of the 14th of July--Preparations for the emigration--I emigrate with my brother--Adventure of Saint-Louis--We cross the frontier--Brussels--Dinner at the Baron de Breteuil's--Rivarol--Departure for the army of the Princes--The journey--I meet the Prussian army--I arrive at Trèves--The Army of the Princes--A Roman amphitheatre--_Atala_--The shirts of Henry IV.--A soldier's life--Last appearance of old military France--Commencement of the siege of Thionville--The Chevalier de La Baronnais--Continuation of the siege--A contrast--Saints in the woods--Battle of Bouvines--A patrol--An unexpected encounter--Effects of a cannon-ball and a shell--Market in camp--Night amid piled arms--The Dutch dog--A recollection of the _Martyrs_--The nature of my company--With the outposts--Eudora--Ulysses--Passage of the Moselle--A fight--Libba, the deaf and dumb girl--Assault of Thionville--The siege is raised--We enter Verdun--The Prussian evil--The retreat--Smallpox--The Ardennes--The Prince de Ligne's baggage-wagons--The women of Namur--I meet my brother at Brussels--Our last farewell--Ostend--I take passage for Jersey--I land at Guernsey--The pilot's wife--Jersey--My uncle de Bedée and his family--Description of the island--The Duc de Berry--Lost friends and relations--The misfortune of growing old--I go to England--Last meeting with Gesril

BOOK VIII

The Literary Fund--My garret in Holborn--Decline in health--Visit to the doctors--Emigrants in London--Peltier--Literary labours--My friendship with Hingant--Our excursions--A night in Westminster Abbey--Distress--Unexpected succour--Lodging overlooking a cemetery--New companions in misfortune--Our pleasures--My cousin de La Boüétardais--A sumptuous rout--I come to the end of my forty crowns--Renewed distress--Table d'hôte--Bishops-Dinner at the London Tavern--The Camden Manuscripts--My work in the country--Death of my brother--Misfortunes of my family--Two Frances--Letters from Hingant--Charlotte--I return to London--An extraordinary meeting--A defect in my character--The _Essai historique sur les révolutions_--Its effect--Letter from Lemierre, nephew to the poet--Fontanes--Cléry

BOOK IX

Death of my mother--I return to religion--The _Génie du Christianisme_--Letter from the Chevalier de Panat--My uncle, M. de Bedée: his eldest daughter--English literature--Decline of the old school--Historians--Poets--Publicists--Shakespeare--Old novels--New novels--Richardson--Sir Walter Scott--New poetry--Beattie--Lord Byron--England from Richmond to Greenwich--A trip with Peltier--Blenheim--Stowe--Hampton Court--Oxford--Eton College--Private manners--Political manners--Fox--Pitt--Burke--George III.--Return of the emigrants to France--The Prussian Minister gives me a false passport in the name of La Sagne, a resident of Neuchâtel in Switzerland--Death of Lord Londonderry--End of my career as a soldier and traveller--I land at Calais

PART THE SECOND

1800-1814

BOOK I

My stay at Dieppe--Two phases of society--The position of my Memoirs--The year 1800--Aspect of France--I arrive in Paris--Changes in society--The year 1801--The _Mercure_--_Atala_--Madame de Beaumont and her circle--Summer at Savigny--The year 1802--Talma--The year 1803--The _Génie du Christianisme_--Failure prophesied--Cause of its final success--Defects in the work

BOOK II

The years 1802 and 1803--Country-houses--Madame de Custine--M. de Saint-Martin--Madame de Houdetot and Saint-Lambert--Journey to the south of France--M. de la Harpe--His death--Interview with Bonaparte--I am appointed First Secretary of Embassy in Rome--Journey from Paris to the Savoy Alps--From Mont Cenis to Rome--Milan to Rome--Cardinal Fesch's palace--My occupations--Madame de Beaumont's manuscripts--Letters from Madame de Caud--Madame de Beaumont's arrival in Rome--Letters from my sister--Letter from Madame de Krüdener--Death of Madame de Beaumont--Her funeral--Letters from M. de Chênedollé, M. de Fontanes, M. Necker, and Madame de Staël--The years 1803 and 1804--First idea of my Memoirs--I am appointed French Minister to the Valais--Departure from Rome--The year 1804--The Valais Republic--A visit to the Tuileries--The Hôtel de Montmorin--I hear the death cried of the Duc d'Enghien--I give in my resignation

BOOK III

Death of the Duc d'Enghien--The year 1804--General Hulin--The Duc de Rovigo--M. de Talleyrand--Part played by each--Bonaparte, his sophistry and remorse--Conclusions to be drawn from the whole story--Enmities engendered by the death of the Duc D'Enghien--An article in the _Mercure_--Change in the life of Bonaparte

BOOK IV

The year 1804--I move to the Rue de Miromesnil-Verneuil--Alexis de Tocqueville--Le Ménil--Mézy--Mérévil--Madame de Coislin--Journey to Vichy, in Auvergne, and to Mont Blanc--Return to Lyons--Excursion to the Grande Chartreuse--Death of Madame de Caud--The years 1805 and 1806--I return to Paris--I leave for the Levant--I embark in Constantinople on a ship carrying pilgrims for Syria--From Tunis to my return to France through Spain--Reflections on my voyage--Death of Julien

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. II

Portrait of

Napoleon Bonaparte
The Comte de Rivarol
Frederic William II
Peltier, editor of the _Actes des Apôtres_
William Pitt
Edmund Burke
George III
The Duc D'Enghien

THE MEMOIRS OF CHATEAUBRIAND

VOLUME II