In addition to the afore-mentioned works and the present one, _Recollections of the Congress of Vienna_, which originally appeared in Paris in 1820 (?), M. de la Garde was the author of the following: _Une traduction de Dmitry Donskoy_ (Moscow, 1811); _Coup d’œil sur le Royaume de Pologne_ (Varsovie, 1818); _Coup d’œil sur Alexander-Bad_ (Bavière, 1819); _Laure Bourg: roman dédié au Roi de Bavière_ (Munich, 1820); _Les Monuments grecs de la Sicile_ (Munich, 1820); _Traduction des Mélodies de Thomas Moore_ (Londres, 1826); _Voyage dans quelques parties de l’Europe_ (Londres, 1828); _Brighton, Voyage en Angleterre_, (1830); _Tableau de Bruxelles (prose et vers), dédié à la Reine_; _Projet pour la formation d’une Colonie belge à la Nouvelle Zélande_, etc. In all those works, and notably in the most important, namely: _Brighton_, and _Souvenirs du Congrès_ _de Vienne_, M. de La Garde shows himself to be endowed with the faculty of observation and with tact. Unfortunately his matchless kindliness prevents his criticisms from departing from the laudatory gamut. We must not look in these _Recollections_ for important revelations concerning the diplomatic conferences which engaged the attention of the whole of Europe in 1815; we shall only meet with delightful anecdotes and portraits of _grandes dames_ and illustrious personages. There will be many silhouettes of figures that have been forgotten since, but which, while they belonged to this world, were worthy of notice. To appreciate them we should bring to the perusal of this volume the quality which presided at its composition: namely, the kindliness of an observant man of the world. Since their appearance in 1820, these _Recollections_ had been absolutely forgotten. It seemed to us and to M. le Marquis de Chambonas La Garde, to whom we owe the principal facts of this notice, that the chapters were worthy of being resuscitated. Though we have omitted from these _Recollections_ some dissertations more or less obsolete, which would be of no interest to-day, we have throughout respected the style and the ideas of the author; only adding to his narrative the necessary notes on the principal personages of the action. FLEURY. ANECDOTAL RECOLLECTIONS INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER Introduction--A Glance at the Congress--Arrival of the Sovereigns-- The First Night in Vienna. The Congress of Vienna, considered as a political gathering, has not lacked historians, but they were so intent upon recording its phases of high diplomacy as to have bestowed no thought upon its piquant and lighter social features.