BOOK IX Death of my mother--I return to religion--The _Génie du Christianisme_--Letter from the Chevalier de Panat--My uncle, M. de Bedée: his eldest daughter--English literature--Decline of the old school--Historians--Poets--Publicists--Shakespeare--Old novels--New novels--Richardson--Sir Walter Scott--New poetry--Beattie--Lord Byron--England from Richmond to Greenwich--A trip with Peltier--Blenheim--Stowe--Hampton Court--Oxford--Eton College--Private manners--Political manners--Fox--Pitt--Burke--George III.--Return of the emigrants to France--The Prussian Minister gives me a false passport in the name of La Sagne, a resident of Neuchâtel in Switzerland--Death of Lord Londonderry--End of my career as a soldier and traveller--I land at Calais PART THE SECOND 1800-1814 BOOK I My stay at Dieppe--Two phases of society--The position of my Memoirs--The year 1800--Aspect of France--I arrive in Paris--Changes in society--The year 1801--The _Mercure_--_Atala_--Madame de Beaumont and her circle--Summer at Savigny--The year 1802--Talma--The year 1803--The _Génie du Christianisme_--Failure prophesied--Cause of its final success--Defects in the work BOOK II The years 1802 and 1803--Country-houses--Madame de Custine--M. de Saint-Martin--Madame de Houdetot and Saint-Lambert--Journey to the south of France--M. de la Harpe--His death--Interview with Bonaparte--I am appointed First Secretary of Embassy in Rome--Journey from Paris to the Savoy Alps--From Mont Cenis to Rome--Milan to Rome--Cardinal Fesch's palace--My occupations--Madame de Beaumont's manuscripts--Letters from Madame de Caud--Madame de Beaumont's arrival in Rome--Letters from my sister--Letter from Madame de Krüdener--Death of Madame de Beaumont--Her funeral--Letters from M. de Chênedollé, M. de Fontanes, M. Necker, and Madame de Staël--The years 1803 and 1804--First idea of my Memoirs--I am appointed French Minister to the Valais--Departure from Rome--The year 1804--The Valais Republic--A visit to the Tuileries--The Hôtel de Montmorin--I hear the death cried of the Duc d'Enghien--I give in my resignation BOOK III Death of the Duc d'Enghien--The year 1804--General Hulin--The Duc de Rovigo--M. de Talleyrand--Part played by each--Bonaparte, his sophistry and remorse--Conclusions to be drawn from the whole story--Enmities engendered by the death of the Duc D'Enghien--An article in the _Mercure_--Change in the life of Bonaparte BOOK IV The year 1804--I move to the Rue de Miromesnil-Verneuil--Alexis de Tocqueville--Le Ménil--Mézy--Mérévil--Madame de Coislin--Journey to Vichy, in Auvergne, and to Mont Blanc--Return to Lyons--Excursion to the Grande Chartreuse--Death of Madame de Caud--The years 1805 and 1806--I return to Paris--I leave for the Levant--I embark in Constantinople on a ship carrying pilgrims for Syria--From Tunis to my return to France through Spain--Reflections on my voyage--Death of Julien LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VOL. II Portrait of