Thermometer of Social Crises--Interview with M. Thiers--His intentions with regard to the Théâtre-Français--Our conventions--_Antony_ comes back to the rue de Richelieu--_The Constitutionnel_--Its leader against Romanticism in general, and against my drama in particular--Morality of the ancient theatre--Parallel between the Théâtre-Français and that of the Porte-Saint-Martin--First suspension of _Antony_ CHAPTER IX My discussion with M. Thiers--Why he had been compelled to suspend _Antony_--Letter of Madame Dorval to the _Constitutionnel_--M. Jay crowned with roses--My lawsuit with M. Jouslin de Lasalle--There are still judges in Berlin! CHAPTER X Republican banquet at the _Vendanges de Bourgogne_--The toasts--_To Louis-Philippe!_--Gathering of those who were decorated in July--Formation of the board--Protests--Fifty yards of ribbon--A dissentient--Contradiction in the _Moniteur_--Trial of Évariste Gallois--His examination--His acquittal CHAPTER XI The incompatibility of literature with riotings--_La Maréchale d'Ancre_--My opinion concerning that piece--_Farruck le Maure_--The début of Henry Monnier at the Vaudeville--I leave Paris--Rouen--Havre--I meditate going to explore Trouville--What is Trouville?--The consumptive English lady--Honfleur--By land or by sea CHAPTER XII Appearance of Trouville--Mother Oseraie--How people are accommodated at Trouville when they are married--The price of painters and of the community of martyrs--Mother Oseraie's acquaintances--How she had saved the life of Huet, the landscape painter--My room and my neighbour's--A twenty-franc dinner for fifty sous--A walk by the sea-shore--Heroic resolution CHAPTER XIII A reading at Nodier's--The hearers and the readers--Début--_Les Marrons du feu_--La Camargo and the Abbé Desiderio--Genealogy of a dramatic idea--Orestes and Hermione--Chimène and Don Sancho--_Goetz von Berlichingen_--Fragments--How I render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's CHAPTER XIV Poetry is the Spirit of God--The Conservatoire and l'École of Rome--Letter of counsel to my Son--Employment of my time at Trouville--Madame de la Garenne--The Vendéan Bonnechose--M. Beudin--I am pursued by a fish--What came of it CHAPTER XV Why M. Beudin came to Trouville--How I knew him under another name--Prologue of a drama--What remained to be done--Division into three parts--I finish _Charles VII._--Departing from Trouville--In what manner I learn of the first performance of _Marion Delorme_ CHAPTER XVI _Marion Delorme_ CHAPTER XVII Collaboration BOOK IV CHAPTER I