Adolphe reads a play at the Gymnase--M. Dormeuil--_Kenilworth Castle_--M. Warez and Soulié--Mademoiselle Lévesque--The Arnault family--The _Feuille--Marius à Minturnes_--Danton's epigram--The reversed passport--Three fables--_Germanicus_ --Inscriptions and epigrams--Ramponneau--The young man and the tilbury_--Extra ecclesiam nulla est salus_--Madame Arnault CHAPTER IV Frédéric Soulié, his character, his talent--Choruses of the various plays, sung as prologues and epilogues--Transformation of the vaudeville--The Gymnase and M. Scribe--The _Folie de Waterloo_ CHAPTER V The Duc d'Orléans--My first interview with him--Maria-Stella-Chiappini--Her attempts to gain rank--Her history--The statement of the Duc d'Orléans--Judgment of the Ecclesiastical Court of Faenza--Rectification of Maria-Stella's certificate of birth CHAPTER VI The "year of trials"--The case of Potier and the director of the theatre of the Porte-Saint-Martin--Trial and condemnation of Magallon--The anonymous journalist--Beaumarchais sent to Saint-Lazare--A few words on censorships in general--Trial of Benjamin Constant--Trial of M. de Jouy--A few words concerning the author of _Sylla_--Three letters extracted from the _Ermite de la Chaussée-d'Antin_--Louis XVIII. as author CHAPTER VII The house in the rue Chaillot--Four poets and a doctor--Corneille and the Censorship--Things M. Faucher does not know--Things the President of the Republic ought to know BOOK V CHAPTER I Chronology of the drama--Mademoiselle Georges Weymer--Mademoiselle Raucourt--Legouvé and his works--Marie-Joseph Chénier--His letter to the company of the Comédie-Française--Young boys _perfectionnés_--Ducis--His work CHAPTER II Bonaparte's attempts at discovering poets--Luce de Lancival--Baour-Lormian--_Lebrun-Pindare_--Lucien Bonaparte, the author--Début of Mademoiselle Georges--The Abbé Geoffroy's critique--Prince Zappia--Hermione at Saint-Cloud CHAPTER III Imperial literature--The _Jeunesse de Henri IV_--Mercier and Alexandre Duval--The _Templiers_ and their author--César Delrieu--Perpignan--Mademoiselle Georges' rupture with the Théâtre-Français--Her flight to Russia--The galaxy of kings--The tragédienne acts as ambassador CHAPTER IV The Comédie-Française at Dresden--Georges returns to the Théâtre-Français--The _Deux Gendres--Mahomet II._--_Tippo-Saëb_-- 1814--Fontainebleau--The allied armies enter Paris--Lilies--Return from the isle of Elba--Violets--Asparagus stalks--Georges returns to Paris CHAPTER V