Chapter I: Book XIII

The Roman Embassy continued--Letter to Madame Récamier--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Conclaves--Dispatches to M. le Comte Portalis--Letters to Madame Récamier--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Letters to Madame Récamier--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Letter to Madame Récamier--Letter to the Marchese Capponi--Letters to Madame Récamier--Letter to M. le Duc de Blacas--Letters to Madame Récamier--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Letter to Monseigneur le Cardinal de Clermont-Tonnerre--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Letters to Madame Récamier--Dispatches to M. le Comte Portalis--Fête at the Villa Medici for the Grand-duchess Helen--My relations and correspondence with the Bonaparte Family--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Monte Cavallo--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Letter to Madame Récamier--Presumption--The French in Rome--Walks--My nephew Christian de Chateaubriand--Letter to Madame Récamier--I return to Paris--My plans--The King and his disposition--M. Portalis--M. de Martignac--I leave for Rome--The Pyrenees--Adventures--The Polignac Ministry--My consternation--I come back to Paris--Interview with M. de Polignac--I resign my Roman Embassy

BOOK XIV

Sycophancy of the newspapers--M. de Polignac's first colleagues--The Algerian Expedition--Opening of the Session of 1830--The Address--The Chamber is dissolved--New Chamber--I leave for Dieppe--The Ordinances of the 25th of July--I return to Paris--Reflexions on the journey--Letter to Madame Récamier--The Revolution of July--M. Baude, M. de Choiseul, M. de Sémonville, M. de Vitrolles, M. Laffitte, and M. Thiers--I write to the King at Saint-Cloud--His verbal answer--Aristocratic corps--Pillage of the house of the missionaries in the Rue d'Enfer--The Chamber of Deputies--M. de Mortemart--A walk through Paris--General Dubourg--Funeral ceremony--Under the colonnade of the Louvre--The young men carry me back to the House of Peers--Meeting of the Peers