THE MEMOIRS OF FRANÇOIS RENÉ VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND SOMETIME AMBASSADOR TO ENGLAND BEING A TRANSLATION BY ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS OF THE MÉMOIRES D'OUTRE-TOMBE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES. In 6 Volumes. Vol. VI "NOTRE SANG A TEINT LA BANNIÈRE DE FRANCE" LONDON: PUBLISHED BY FREEMANTLE AND CO. AT 217 PICCADILLY MDCCCCII [Illustration: Chateaubriand's tomb.] CONTENTS VOLUME VI BOOK V 1-40 Journal from Carlsbad to Paris--Cynthia--Eger--Wallenstein--Weissenstadt --Berneck--Memories--Bayreuth--Voltaire--Hollfeld--The church--The little girl with the basket--The inn-keeper and his maid-servant--Bamberg--The female hunchback--Würzburg: its canons--A drunkard--The swallow--The inn at Wiesenbach--A German and his wife--My age and appearance--Heidelberg--Pilgrims--Ruins--Mannheim--The Rhine—-The Palatinate--Aristocratic and plebeian armies--Convent and castle--A lonely inn--Kaiserslautern--Saarbrück--Metz--Charles X.'s Council in France--Ideas on Henry V.--My letter to Madame la Dauphine--Letters from Madame la Duchesse de Berry BOOK VI 41-76 Journal from Paris to Venice--The Jura--The Alps--Milan--Verona--The roll-call of the dead--The Brenta--Incidental remarks--Venice--Venetian architecture--Antonio--The Abbé Betio and M. Gamba--The rooms in the Palace of the Doges--Prisons--Silvio Pellico's prison--The Frari--The Academy of Fine Arts--Titian's _Assumption_--The metopes of the Parthenon--Original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo and Raphael--The Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo--The Arsenal--Henry IV.--A frigate leaving for America--The Cemetery of San Cristoforo--San Michele di Murano--Murano--The woman and the child--Gondoliers--Bretons and Venetians--Breakfast on the Riva degli Schiavoni--The tomb of Mesdames at Trieste--Rousseau and Byron--Great geniuses inspired by Venice--Old and new courtezans--Rousseau and Byron compared BOOK VII 77-118 Arrival of Madame de Bauffremont in Venice--Catajo--The Duke of Modena--Petrarch's Tomb at Arqua--The land of poets--Tasso--Arrival of Madame la Duchesse de Berry--Mademoiselle Lebeschu--Count Lucchesi-Palli--Discussion--Dinner--Bugeaud the gaoler--Madame de Saint-Priest, M. de Saint-Priest--Madame de Podenas--Our band--I refuse to go to Prague--I yield at a word--Padua--Tombs--Zanze's manuscript--Unexpected news--The Governor of the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom--Letters from Madame to Charles X. and Henry V.--M. de Montbel--My note to the Governor--I set out for Prague BOOK VIII 119-145