Prince Metternich is appointed to teach the history of Napoleon to the Duc de Reichstadt--The Duke's plan of political conduct--The poet Barthélemy at Vienna--His interviews with Count Dietrichstein--Opinion of the Duc de Reichstadt on the poem _Napoleon en Egypt_ 353 CHAPTER VI Journey of the Duc de Reichstadt--M. le Chevalier de Prokesch--Questions concerning the recollections left by _Napoléon en Égypte_--The ambition of the Duc de Reichstadt--The Countesse Camerata--The prince is appointed lieutenant-colonel--He becomes hoarse when holding a review--He falls ill--Report upon his health by Dr. Malfatti CHAPTER VII The Duc de Reichstadt at Schönbrünn--Progress of his disease--The Archduchess Sophia--The prince's last moments--His death--Effect produced by the news at Paris--Article of the _Constitutionnel_ upon this event BOOK VI CHAPTER I Lucerne--The lion of August 10--M. de Chateaubriand's fowls--Reichenau--A picture by Conder--Letter to M. le duc d'Orléans--A walk in the park of Arenenberg 383 CHAPTER II News of France--First performance of _Le Fils de l'Émigré_-- What _Le Constitutionnel_ thought of it--Effect produced by that play on the Parisian population in general and on M. Véron in particular--Death of Walter Scott--_Perrinet Leclerc--Sic vos non vobis_ CHAPTER III La Duchesse de Berry returns to Nantes disguised as a peasant woman--The basket of apples--The house Duguigny--Madame in her hiding-place--Simon Deutz--His antecedents--His mission--He enters into treaty with MM. Thiers and Montalivet--He starts for la Vendée 412 CHAPTER IV M. Maurice Duval is made Préfet of the Loire-Inférieure-- The Nantais give him a charivari--Deutz's persistent attempts to see Madame--He obtains a first and then a second audience--Besieging of the maison Duguigny--The hiding-place--The police searches--Discovery of the Duchess CHAPTER V First moments after the arrest--Madame's 13,000 francs--What a gendarme can win by sleeping on a camp-bed and making philosophic reflections thereon--The duchess at the Château de Nantes--She is transferred to Blaye--Judas BOOK VII CHAPTER I _Le Roi s'amuse_--Criticism and censorship CHAPTER II _Le Corsaire_ trial--The Duc d'Orléans as caricaturist--The _Tribune_ trial--The right of association established by jury--Statistics of the political sentences under the Restoration_--Le Pré-aux-Clercs_ CHAPTER III Victor Jacquemont CHAPTER IV George Sand CHAPTER V Eugène Sue--His family, birth, godfather and godmother-- His education--Dr. Sue's wine-cellar--Choir of botanists --Committee of chemistry--Dinner on the grass--Eugène Sue sets out for Spain--His return--Ferdinand Langlé's room--Captain Gauthier CHAPTER VI