God grant that these industrial interests, in which we are to find a prosperity of a new kind, may deceive nobody, that they may prove as fruitful, as civilizing as the moral interests whence the old society issued! Time will teach us whether they be not the barren dreams of those sterile intellects which lack the faculty of rising above the material world. [Sidenote: With the Legitimacy.] Although my part finishes with the Legitimacy, all my wishes are for France, whatever be the powers which her improvident whim may lead her to obey. As for myself, I ask for nothing more; I would wish only not too long to outlive the ruins which lie crumbling at my feet. But one's years are like the Alps: scarce has one surmounted the first, before others rise before one. Alas, those last and higher mountains are uninhabited, arid and topped with snow! [Footnote 263: This book was written in Paris, in August and September 1830, and revised in December 1840.--T.] [Footnote 264: Michel Chevalier (1806-1879), who later achieved distinction as the promoter of the Treaty of Commerce between France and England.--T.] [Footnote 265: Ulysse Trélat (_b._ 1795), a well-known mad-doctor and politician. He was Minister of Public Works for six weeks in 1848.--T.] [Footnote 266: Jean Baptiste Teste (1780-1852), a famous lawyer, went to Belgium after the Second Restoration and became attorney-general to King William I. of the Netherlands. He returned to France at the outbreak of the Revolution and filled several ministerial offices during the reign of Louis-Philippe.--T.] [Footnote 267: Augustin Guinard has already been mentioned as being among the first to enter the Tuileries on the 29th of July (_supra_, p. 109).--T.] [Footnote 268: Charles Hingray (1797-1870), a bookseller and politician, and a consistent Radical.--T.] [Footnote 269: Louis François Auguste Cauchois-Lemaire (1789-1861), a French publicist, founder of the _Nain jaune_ (1814) and author of an _Histoire de la révolution de Juillet_ (1841). He continued his opposition to the Monarchy after the Revolution of July.--T.] [Footnote 270: The Battle of Jemmapes (6 November 1792), in which Dumouriez defeated the Austrians under the Duke of Saxe-Teschen. Louis-Philippe, then Duc de Chartres, was present at the battle as a lieutenant-general, and is said to have decided the victory, which led to the occupation of Belgium.--T.] [Footnote 271: The Battle of Valmy (20 September 1792), in which the French under Kellermann, acting under the orders of Dumouriez, repulsed the Prussians, led by the Duke of Brunswick. In this battle, which produced an immense moral effect, the Duc de Chartres also distinguished himself.--T.] [Footnote 272: Here the _Souvenirs_ of the Duc de Broglie agree with the _Mémoires d'Outre-tombe._ M. de Broglie says: "Posted up on M. Laffitte's own door, on the Bourse, and in all the public places, one read a placard worded as follows: