MY MEMOIRS BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS TRANSLATED BY E. M. WALLER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG VOL. VI 1832 TO 1833 WITH A FRONTISPIECE NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1909 CONTENTS BOOK I CHAPTER I Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball--I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates--My artist-decorators--The question of the supper--I go for provisions to la Ferté-Vidame--View of this capital town of the Canton, by night, in a snowstorm--My nephew's room--My friend Gondon--Roebuck hunting--Return to Paris--I invent a Bank of Exchange before M. Proudhon--The artists at work--The dead CHAPTER II Alfred Johannot CHAPTER III Clément Boulanger CHAPTER IV Grandville CHAPTER V Tony Johannot BOOK II CHAPTER I Sequel to the preparations for my ball--Oil and distemper--Inconveniences of working at night--How Delacroix did his task--The ball--Serious men--La Fayette and Beauchene--Variety of costumes--The invalid and the undertaker's man--The last galop--A _political_ play--A _moral_ play CHAPTER II _Dix ans de la vie d'une femme_ CHAPTER III Doligny manager of the theatre in Italy--Saint-Germain bitten by the tarantula--How they could have livened up Versailles if Louis-Philippe had wished it--The censorship of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany--The bindings of printer Batelli--_Richard Darlington, Angèle, Antony_ and _La Tour de Nesle_ performed under the name of Eugène Scribe CHAPTER IV A few words on _La Tour de Nesle_ and M. Frédérick Gaillardet--The _Revue des Deux Mondes_--M. Buloz--The _Journal des Voyages_--My first attempt at Roman history--_Isabeau de Bavière_--A witty man of five foot nine inches CHAPTER V Success of my _Scènes historiques_--Clovis and Hlodewig (Chlodgwig)--I wish to apply myself seriously to the study of the history of France--The Abbé Gauthier and M. de Moyencourt--Cordelier-Delanoue reveals to me Augustine Thierry and Chateaubriand--New aspects of history--_Gaule et France_--A drama in collaboration with Horace Vernet and Auguste Lafontaine CHAPTER VI _Édith aux longs cheveux--Catherine Howard_ BOOK III CHAPTER I An invasion of cholera--Aspect of Paris--Medicine and the scourge--Proclamation of the Prefect of Police--The supposed poisoners--Harel's newspaper paragraph--Mademoiselle Dupont--Eugène Durieu and Anicet Bourgeois--Catherine (not Howard) and the cholera--First performance of _Mari de la veuve_--A horoscope which did not come true CHAPTER II