The voyage--The landing--The taking of Alexandria--The _Chant du Départ_ and the Arabian concert--The respited prisoners--The march on Cairo--Rum and biscuit--My father's melons--The Scientific Institute--Battle of the Pyramids--Scene of the victory--My father's letter establishing the truth CHAPTER IV Admissions of General Dupuis and Adjutant-General Boyer--The malcontents--Final discussion between Bonaparte and my father--Battle of Aboukir--My father finds treasure--His letter on this subject CHAPTER V Revolt at Cairo--My father enters the Grand Mosque on horseback--His home-sickness--He leaves Egypt and lands at Naples--Ferdinand and Caroline of Naples--Emma Lyon and Nelson--Ferdinand's manifesto--Comments of his minister, Belmonte-Pignatelli CHAPTER VI Report presented to the French Government by Divisional-General Alexandre Dumas, on his captivity at Taranto and at Brindisi, ports in the Kingdom of Naples CHAPTER VII My father is exchanged for General Mack--Events during his captivity--He asks in vain for a share in the distribution of the 500,000 francs indemnity granted to the prisoners--The arrears of his pay also refused him--He is placed on the retired list, in spite of his energetic protests CHAPTER VIII Letter from my father to General Brune on my birth--The postscript--My godfather and godmother--First recollections of infancy--Topography of the château des Fossés and sketches of some of its inhabitants--The snake and the frog--Why I asked Pierre if he could swim--Continuation of _Jocrisse_ CHAPTER IX Mocquet's nightmare--His pipe--Mother Durand--Les bêtes _fausses_ et le _pierge_--M. Collard--My father's remedy--Radical cure of Mocquet CHAPTER X Who was Berlick?--The fête of Villers-Cotterets--Faust and Polichinelle--The sabots--Journey to Paris--Dollé--Manette--Madame de Mauclerc's pension--Madame de Montesson--_Paul and Virginia_--Madame de Saint-Aubin CHAPTER XI Brune and Murat--The return to Villers-Cotterets--L'hôtel de l'Épée--Princess Pauline--The chase--The chief forester's permission--My father takes to his bed never to rise again--Delirium--The gold-headed cane--Death CHAPTER XII My love for my father--His love for me--I am taken away to my cousin Marianne's--Plan of the house--The forge--The apparition--I learn the death of my father--I wish to go to heaven to kill God--Our situation at the death of my father--Hatred of Bonaparte BOOK III CHAPTER I My mother and I take refuge with my grandfather--Madame Darcourt's house--My first books and my first terrors--The park at Villers-Cotterets--M. Deviolaine and his family--The swarm of bees--The old cloister CHAPTER II