Chapter II: Book XV

The Republicans--The Orleanist--M. Thiers is sent to Neuilly--Convocation of peers at the Grand Refendary's--The letter reaches me too late--Saint-Cloud--Scene between M. le Dauphin and the Maréchal de Raguse--Neuilly--M. le Duc d'Orléans--The Raincy--The Prince comes to Paris--A deputation from the Elective Chamber offers M. le Duc d'Orléans the Lieutenant-generalship of the Kingdom--He accepts--Efforts of the Republicans--M. le Duc d'Orléans goes to the Hôtel de Ville--The Republicans at the Palais-Royal--The King leaves Saint-Cloud--Madame la Dauphine arrives at Trianon--The Diplomatic Body--Rambouillet--3 August: opening of the Session--Letter from Charles X. to M. le Duc d'Orléans--The mob sets out for Rambouillet--Flight of the King--Reflections--The Palais-Royal--Conversations--Last political temptation--M. de Sainte-Aulaire--Last gasp of the Republican Party--The day's work of the 7th of August--Sitting of the House of Peers--My speech--I leave the Palace of the Luxembourg, never to return--My resignations--Charles X. takes ship at Cherbourg-What the Revolution of July will be--Close of my political career

PART THE FOURTH

1830-1841

BOOK I

Introduction--Trial of the ministers-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois--Pillage of the Archbishop's Palace--My pamphlet on the _Restauration et la Monarchie élective_--_Études historiques_--Letters to Madame Récamier--Geneva--Lord Byron--Ferney and Voltaire--Useless journey to Paris--M. Armand Carrel--M. de Béranger--The Baude and Briqueville proposition for the banishment of the Elder Branch of the Bourbons--Letter to the author of the _Némésis_--Conspiracy of the Rue des Prouvaires--Letter to Madame la Duchesse de Berry--Epidemics--The cholera--Madame La Duchesse de Berry's 12,000 francs--General Lamarque's funeral--Madame La Duchesse de Berry lands in Provence and arrives in the Vendée