Three portraits in one frame CHAPTER XIII Collaboration--A whim of Bocage--Anicet Bourgeois--_Teresa_--Drama at the Opéra-Comique--Laferrière and the eruption of Vesuvius--Mélingue--Fancy-dress ball at the Tuileries--The place de Grève and the barrière Saint-Jacques--The death penalty CHAPTER XIV The peregrinations of Casimir Delavigne--_Jeanne Vaubernier_--Rougemont--His translation of Cambronne's _mot_--First representation of _Teresa_--Long and short pieces--Cordelier Delanoue and his _Mathieu Luc_--Closing of the Taitbout Hall and arrest of the leaders of the Saint-Simonian cult CHAPTER XV Mély-Janin's _Louis XI._ CHAPTER XVI Casimir Delavigne's _Louis XI._ NOTE (Béranger) NOTE (de Latouche) THE MEMOIRS OF ALEXANDRE DUMAS 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 I am obliged to retrace my steps, as the putting out to nurse of _Antony_ at the Porte-Sainte-Martin has carried me further than I intended. Bixio had given me a definite answer with regard to my joining the artillery, and I was incorporated in the fourth battery under Captain Olivier. Just a word or two upon the constitution of this artillery. The order creating the Garde Nationale provided for a legion of artillery comprised of four batteries. General La Fayette appointed Joubert provisional colonel of the legion, which consisted of four batteries. It was the same Joubert at whose house, in the Passage Dauphine, a quantity of powder had been distributed and many bullets cast in the July Days. La Fayette had also appointed four captains to enlist men. When the men were enlisted, these captains were replaced by picked officers. Arnoux was appointed head captain of the first battery. I have already mentioned that the Duc d'Orléans was entered in this battery. Guinard was appointed first captain, and Godefroy Cavaignac second captain, of the second battery. Bastide was appointed senior captain, and Thomas junior captain, of the third battery. Finally, Olivier was first captain, and Saint-Évre second captain, of the fourth battery. The first and second battery formed a squadron; the third and fourth a second squadron. The first squadron was commanded by Thierry, who has since become a municipal councillor, and is now Medical Superintendent of Prisons, I believe. The second squadron was commanded by a man named Barré, whom I lost sight of after 1830, and I have forgotten what has become of him. Finally, the whole were commanded by Comte Pernetti, whom the king had appointed our colonel. I had, therefore, reached the crown of my wishes: I was an artilleryman!