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Chapter III: Book II

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My arrest--I am transferred from my thieves' cell to Mademoiselle Gisquet's dressing-room--Achille de Harlay--The examining magistrate, M. Desmortiers--My life at M. Gisquet's--I am set at liberty--Letter to M. the Minister of Justice and his reply--I receive an offer of my peer's pension from Charles X.--My reply--Note from Madame la Duchesse de Berry--Letter to Béranger--I leave Paris--Diary from Paris to Lugano--M. Augustin Thierry--The road over the Saint-Gotthard--The Valley of Schöllenen--The Devil's Bridge--The Saint-Gotthard--Description of Lugano--The mountains--Excursions round about Lucerne--Clara Wendel--The peasants' prayer--M. Alexandre Dumas--Madame de Colbert--Letter to M. de Béranger--Zurich--Constance--Madame Récamier--Madame la Duchesse de Saint-Leu--Madame de Saint-Leu after reading M. de Chateaubriand's last letter--After reading a note signed "Hortense"--Arenenberg--I return to Geneva--Coppet--The tomb of Madame de Staël--A walk--Letter to Prince Louis Napoleon--Letters to the Minister of Justice, to the President of the Council, to Madame la Duchesse de Berry--I write my memorial on the captivity of the Princess--Circular to the editors of the newspapers--Extract from the _Mémoire sur la captivité de madame la duchesse de Berry_--My trial--Popularity

BOOK III

The Infirmerie de Marie-Thérèse--Letter from Madame la Duchesse de Berry from the Citadel of Blaye--Departure from Paris--M. de Talleyrand's calash--Basle--Journal from Paris to Prague, from the 14th to the 24th of May 1833, written in pencil in the carriage, in ink at the inns--The banks of the Rhine--Falls of the Rhine--Mösskirch--A storm--The Danube--Ulm--Blenheim--Louis XIV.--An Hercynian forest--The Barbarians--Sources of the Danube--Ratisbon--Decrease in social life as one goes farther from France--Religious feelings of the Germans--Arrival at Waldmünchen--The Austrian custom-house--I am refused admission into Bohemia--Stay at Waldmünchen--Letters to Count Choteck--Anxiety--The Viaticum--The chapel--My room at the inn--Description of Waldmünchen--Letter from Count Choteck--The peasant-girl--I leave Waldmünchen and enter Bohemia--A pine forest--Conversation with the moon--Pilsen--The high-roads of the North-View of Prague

BOOK IV

The castle of the Kings of Bohemia--First interview with Charles X.--Monsieur le Dauphin--The Children of France--The Duc and Duchesse de Guiche--The triumvirate--Mademoiselle--Conversation with the King--Dinner and evening at Hradschin--Visits--General Skrzynecki--Dinner at Count Chotek's--Whit Sunday--The Duc de Blacas--Casual observations--Tycho Brahe--Perdita: more casual observations--Bohemia--Slav and neo-Latin literature--I take leave of the King--Adieus--The children's letters to their mother--A Jew--The Saxon servant-girl--What I am leaving in Prague--The Duc de Bordeaux--Madame la Dauphine--Casual observations--Springs--Mineral waters--Historical memories--The Teplitz Valley--Its flora--Last conversation with the Dauphiness--My departure

APPENDIX

The Royal Ordinances of July 1830

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOL. V

Pope Pius VIII Henry IX. (Cardinal of York) Louise of Stolberg (Countess of Albany) Guizot The Princesse de Lieven Charles X Queen Hortense Henry V. (Duc de Bordeaux)

THE MEMOIRS OF CHATEAUBRIAND

VOLUME V

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