The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
My arrest--I am transferred from my thieves' cell to Mademoiselle
Gisquet's dressing-room--Achille de Harlay--The examining
magistrate, M. Desmortiers--My life at M. Gisquet's--I am set at
liberty--Letter to M. the Minister of Justice and his reply--I
receive an offer of my peer's pension from Charles X.--My reply--Note
from Madame la Duchesse de Berry--Letter to Béranger--I leave
Paris--Diary from Paris to Lugano--M. Augustin Thierry--The
road over the Saint-Gotthard--The Valley of Schöllenen--The
Devil's Bridge--The Saint-Gotthard--Description of Lugano--The
mountains--Excursions round about Lucerne--Clara Wendel--The peasants'
prayer--M. Alexandre Dumas--Madame de Colbert--Letter to M. de
Béranger--Zurich--Constance--Madame Récamier--Madame la Duchesse de
Saint-Leu--Madame de Saint-Leu after reading M. de Chateaubriand's
last letter--After reading a note signed "Hortense"--Arenenberg--I
return to Geneva--Coppet--The tomb of Madame de Staël--A walk--Letter
to Prince Louis Napoleon--Letters to the Minister of Justice, to the
President of the Council, to Madame la Duchesse de Berry--I write my
memorial on the captivity of the Princess--Circular to the editors of
the newspapers--Extract from the _Mémoire sur la captivité de madame la
duchesse de Berry_--My trial--Popularity
BOOK III
The Infirmerie de Marie-Thérèse--Letter from Madame la Duchesse
de Berry from the Citadel of Blaye--Departure from Paris--M. de
Talleyrand's calash--Basle--Journal from Paris to Prague, from the 14th
to the 24th of May 1833, written in pencil in the carriage, in ink at
the inns--The banks of the Rhine--Falls of the Rhine--Mösskirch--A
storm--The Danube--Ulm--Blenheim--Louis XIV.--An Hercynian forest--The
Barbarians--Sources of the Danube--Ratisbon--Decrease in social
life as one goes farther from France--Religious feelings of the
Germans--Arrival at Waldmünchen--The Austrian custom-house--I am
refused admission into Bohemia--Stay at Waldmünchen--Letters to
Count Choteck--Anxiety--The Viaticum--The chapel--My room at the
inn--Description of Waldmünchen--Letter from Count Choteck--The
peasant-girl--I leave Waldmünchen and enter Bohemia--A pine
forest--Conversation with the moon--Pilsen--The high-roads of the
North-View of Prague
BOOK IV
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