The god and his sanctuary--He informs the Pope of his overthrow--His manifestoes--His portrait---Doctrine of escape--Symbols of that religion--Chaudesaigues takes me to the Mapah--Iswara and Pracriti--Questions which are wanting in actuality---War between the votaries of _bidja_ and the followers of _sakti_--My last interview with the Mapah CHAPTER IX Apocalypse of the being who was once called Caillaux BOOK III CHAPTER I The scapegoat of power--Legitimist hopes--The expiatory mass--The Abbé Olivier--The Curé of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois--Pachel--Where I begin to be wrong--General Jacqueminot--Pillage of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois--The sham Jesuit and the Préfet of Police--The Abbé Paravey's room CHAPTER II The Préfet of Police at the Palais-Royal--The function of fire--Valérius, the truss-maker--Demolition of the archbishop's palace--The Chinese album--François Arago--The spectators of the riot--The erasure of the fleurs-de-lis--I give in my resignation a second time--MM. Chambolle and Casimir Périer CHAPTER III My dramatic faith wavers--Bocage and Dorval reconcile me with myself--A political trial wherein I deserved to figure--Downfall of the Laffitte Ministry--Austria and the Duc de Modena--Maréchal Maison is Ambassador at Vienna--The story of one of his dispatches--Casimir Périer Prime Minister--His reception at the Palais-Royal--They make him the _amende honorable_ CHAPTER IV Trial of the artillerymen--Procureur-général Miller--Pescheux d'Herbinville--Godefroy Cavaignac--Acquittal of the accused--The ovation they received--Commissioner Gourdin--The cross of July--The red and black ribbon--Final rehearsals of _Antony_ CHAPTER V The first representation of _Antony_--The play, the actors, the public--_Antony_ at the Palais-Royal--Alterations of the _dénoûment_ CHAPTER VI The inspiration under which I composed _Antony_--The Preface--Wherein lies the moral of the piece--Cuckoldom, Adultery and the Civil Code--_Quem nuptiæ demonstrant_--Why the Critics exclaimed that my Drama was immoral--Account given by the least malevolent among them--How prejudices against bastardy are overcome CHAPTER VII A word on criticism--Molière estimated by Bossuet, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and by Bourdaloue--An anonymous libel--Critics of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries--M. François de Salignac de la Motte de Fénelon--Origin of the word _Tartuffe_--M. Taschereau and M. Étienne CHAPTER VIII