1831. Rome. _Symphonie Fantastique_ and _Lélio_. 1832. Concert at which Miss Smithson present on 9th December. 1833. Marriage. In November Henriette’s benefit and failure. 1834. Louis born. _Harold_ performed in November. 1835. _Symphonie Funèbre_ begun. 1836. _Requiem._ 1837. _Benvenuto Cellini_ finished. 1838. Paganini’s present. 1839. _Romeo and Juliet._ 1840. _Funèbre_ performed. First journey to Brussels. 1841. Festival at Paris Opera House. 1842-3. First tour in Germany. 1844. _Carnaval Romain._ Gigantic concert in the Palais de l’Industrie. Nice. 1845. Cirque des Champs Elysées concert. Marseilles. Lyons. Austria. 1846. Hungary. Bohemia. In December, failure of _Damnation de Faust_. 1847. Russia. Berlin. In November, London, as conductor at Drury Lane. 1848. London. In July, Paris. Death of Dr Berlioz. 1849. _Te Deum_ begun. 1850. _Childhood of Christ_ begun. 1851. Member of Jury at London Exhibition. 1852. _Benvenuto Cellini_ given by Liszt at Weimar. In March, London, _Romeo and Juliet_. May, conducted Beethoven’s _Choral Symphony_. June, _Damnation de Faust_. 1854. March, Henriette died. Dresden. Marriage with Mdlle. Récio. 1855. North German tour. Brussels. _Te Deum._ In June, London. _Imperial Cantata._ On Jury of Paris Exhibition. 1856. _The Trojans_ begun. 1858. Concerts in the Salle Herz brought in some thousands of francs. 1861. Baden. 1862. Marie Berlioz died. _Beatrice and Benedict_ performed at Baden. 1863. Weimar. _Childhood of Christ_ at Strasburg. In November, _The Trojans_. 1864. In August, made officer of Legion of Honour. Dauphiny. Meylan. Estelle Fournier. 1865. Geneva, to see Estelle. 1866. In December to Vienna, to conduct _Damnation de Faust_. 1867. In June Louis died. In November, Russia. 1868. Russia. Paris. Nice. In August, Grenoble. 1869. Died 8th March. THE LIFE OF BERLIOZ I LA CÔTE SAINT-ANDRÉ Decidedly ours is a prosaic century. On no other grounds can my wounded vanity account for the humiliating fact that no auspicious omens, no mighty portents--such as heralded the birth of the great men of the golden age of poetry--gave notice of my coming. It is strange, but true, that I was born, quite unobtrusively, at La Côte Saint-André, between Vienne and Grenoble, on the 11th December 1803. As its name implies, La Côte Saint-André lies on a hillside overlooking a plain--wide, green, and golden--of which the dreamy majesty is accentuated by the mountain belt that bounds it on the southeast, being in turn crowned by the mystic glory of distant Alpine glaciers and snowy peaks.