MY MEMOIRS BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS TRANSLATED BY E. M. WALLER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG IN SIX VOLUMES VOL. V 1831 TO 1832 WITH A FRONTISPIECE NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1908 CONTENTS BOOK I CHAPTER I Organisation of the Parisian Artillery--Metamorphosis of my uniform of a Mounted National Guardsman--Bastide--Godefroy Cavaignac--Guinard--Thomas--Names of the batteries and of their principal servants--I am summoned to seize the _Chamber_--How many of us came to the rendezvous CHAPTER II Odilon Barrot, Préfet of the Seine--His soirées--His proclamation upon the subject of riots--Dupont (de l'Eure) and Louis-Philippe--Resignation of the ministry of Mole and Guizot--The affair of the forest of Breteuil--The Laffitte ministry--The prudent way in which registration was carried out CHAPTER III Béranger as Patriot and Republican 20 CHAPTER IV Béranger, as Republican 28 CHAPTER V Death of Benjamin Constant--Concerning his life--Funeral honours that were conferred upon him--His funeral--Law respecting national rewards--The trial of the ministers--Grouvelle and his sister--M. Mérilhou and the neophyte--Colonel Lavocat--The Court of Peers--Panic--Fieschi CHAPTER VI The artillerymen at the Louvre--Bonapartist plot to take our cannon from us--Distribution of cartridges by Godefroy Cavaignac--The concourse of people outside the Luxembourg when the ministers were sentenced--Departure of the condemned for Vincennes--Defeat of the judges--La Fayette and the riot--Bastide and Commandant Barré on guard with Prosper Mérimée CHAPTER VII We are surrounded in the Louvre courtyard--Our ammunition taken by surprise--Proclamation of the Écoles--Letter of Louis-Philippe to La Fayette--The Chamber vote of thanks to the Colleges--Protest of the École polytechnique--Discussion at the Chamber upon the General Commandership of the National Guard--Resignation of La Fayette--The king's reply--I am appointed second captain CHAPTER VIII The Government member--Chodruc-Duclos--His portrait--His life at Bordeaux--His imprisonment at Vincennes--The Mayor of Orgon--Chodruc-Duclos converts himself into a Diogenes--M. Giraud-Savine--Why Nodier was growing old--Stibert--A lesson in shooting--Death of Chodruc-Duclos CHAPTER IX Alphonse Rabbe--Madame Cardinal--Rabbe and the Marseilles Academy--_Les Massénaires_--Rabbe in Spain--His return--The _Old Dagger_--The Journal _Le Phocéen_--Rabbe in prison--The writer of fables--_Ma pipe_ CHAPTER X Rabbe's friends--_La Sœur grise_--The historical résumés--M. Brézé's advice--An imaginative man--Berruyer's style--Rabbe with his hairdresser, his concierge and confectioner--_La Sœur grise_ stolen--_Le Centaure_ CHAPTER XI