Léon Pillet--His uniform--Soissonnais susceptibility--Hard returns to the charge with his play--I set out for la Vendée--The quarry--I obtain pardon for a coiner condemned to the galleys--My stay at Meurs--Commandant Bourgeois--Disastrous effect of the tricolours in le Bocage--Fresh proofs that a kindness done is never lost CHAPTER VII A warning to Parisian sportsmen--Clisson--The château of M. Lemot--My guide--The Vendean column--The battle of Torfou--Two omitted names--Piffanges--Tibulle and the Loire--Gilles de Laval--His edifying death--Means taken to engrave a remembrance on the minds of children CHAPTER VIII Le Bocage--Its deep lanes and hedges--The Chouan tactics--Vendean horses and riders--Vendean politics--The Marquis de la Bretèche and his farmers--The means I suggested to prevent a fresh Chouannerie--The tottering stone--I leave la Jarrie--Adieux to my guide CHAPTER IX The Nantes Revolution--Régnier--Paimbœuf--Landlords and travellers--Jacomety--The native of la Guadeloupe and his wife--Gull shooting--Axiom for sea-bird shooting--The captain of _la Pauline_--Woman and swallow--Lovers' superstition--Getting under sail CHAPTER X Story of Bougainville and his friend the curé of Boulogne CHAPTER XI Breakfast on deck--Saint-Nazaire--A thing husbands never think of--Noirmontiers --Belle-Ile--I leave the two Paulines--The rope-ladder--The ship's boat--A total immersion--The inn at Saint-Nazaire--I throw money through the window--A batch of clothes--Return to Paris BOOK V CHAPTER I Confidential letter from Louis-Philippe to the Emperor Nicholas--The Czar's reply--What France could do after the Revolution of July--Louis-Philippe and Ferdinand VII.--The Spanish refugees--Reaction in the Home department--Scraping of the public monuments--Protest CHAPTER II The drama of Saint-Leu--The bravery of the Duc d'Aumale--The arrest of MM. Peyronnet, Chantelauze, Guernon-Ranville and Polignac--Madame de Saint-Fargeau's servant--Thomas and M. de Polignac--The ex-ministers at Vincennes--The abolition of the death penalty in the Chamber--La Fayette--M. de Kératry--Salverte--Death to the ministers--Vive Odilon Barrot and Pétion! CHAPTER III Oudard tells me that Louis-Philippe wishes to see me--Visit to M. Deviolaine--Hutin, supernumerary horse-guardsman--My interview with the king about la Vendée and the policy of _juste milieu_--Bixio an artilleryman--He undertakes to get me enrolled in his battery--I send in my resignation to Louis-Philippe CHAPTER IV