Adèle--Her devotion to Rabbe--Strong meat--_Appel à Dieu_--_L'âme et la comédie humaine_--_La mort_--_Ultime lettere_--Suicide--_À Alphonse Rabbe_, by Victor Hugo CHAPTER XII Chéron--His last compliments to Harel--Obituary of 1830--My official visit on New Year's Day--A striking costume--Read the _Moniteur_--Disbanding of the Artillery of the National Guard--First representation of _Napoléon Bonaparte_--Delaistre--Frédérick-Lemaître BOOK II CHAPTER I The Abbé Châtel--The programme of his church--The Curé of Lèves and M. Clausel de Montals--The Lévois embrace the religion of the primate of the Gauls--Mass in French--The Roman curé--A dead body to inter CHAPTER II Fine example of religious toleration--The Abbé Dallier--The Circes of Lèves--Waterloo after Leipzig--The Abbé Dallier is kept as hostage--The barricades--The stones of Chartres--The outlook--Preparations for fighting CHAPTER III Attack of the barricade--A sequel to Malplaquet--The Grenadier--The Chartrian philanthropists--Sack of the bishop's palace--A fancy dress--How order was restored--The culprits both small and great--Death of the Abbé Ledru--Scruples of conscience of the former schismatics--The _Dies iræ_ of Kosciusko CHAPTER IV The Abbé de Lamennais--His prediction of the Revolution of 1830--Enters the Church--His views on the Empire--Casimir Delavigne, Royalist--His early days--Two pieces of poetry by M. de Lamennais--His literary vocation--_Essay on Indifference in Religious Matters_--Reception given to this book by the Church--The academy of the château de la Chesnaie CHAPTER V The founding of l'_Avenir_--L'Abbé Lacordaire--M. Charles de Montalembert--His article on the sacking of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois--l'_Avenir_ and the new literature--My first interview with M. de Lamennais--Lawsuit against l'_Avenir_--MM. de Montalembert and Lacordaire as schoolmasters--Their trial in the _Cour des pairs_--The capture of Warsaw--Answer of four poets to a word spoken by a statesman CHAPTER VI Suspension of l'_Avenir_--Its three principal editors present themselves at Rome--The Abbé de Lamennais as musician--The trouble it takes to obtain an audience of the Pope--The convent of Santo-Andrea della Valle--Interview of M. de Lamennais with Gregory XVI.--The statuette of Moses--The doctrines of l'_Avenir_ are condemned by the Council of Cardinals--Ruin of M. de Lamennais--The _Paroles d'un Croyant_ CHAPTER VII Who Gannot was--Mapah--His first miracle--The wedding at Cana--Gannot, phrenologist--Where his first ideas on phrenology came from--The unknown woman--The change wrought in Gannot's life--How he becomes Mapah CHAPTER VIII