The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6 — John Shaqi
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
Journal from Padua to Prague, from the 20th to the 26th of
September 1833--Conegliano--The translator of the _Dernier
Abencerrage_--Udine--Countess Samoyloff--M. de La Ferronays--A
priest--Carinthia--The Drave--A peasant lad--Forges--Breakfast
at the hamlet of St. Michael--The neck of the Tauern--A
cemetery--Atala: how changed--A sunrise--Salzburg--A military
review--Happiness of the peasants--Woknabrück--Reminiscences of
Plancoët--Night--German and Italian towns contrasted--Linx--The
Danube--Waldmünchen--Woods--Recollections of Combourg
and Lucile--Travellers--Prague--Madame de Gontaut--The
young Frenchmen--Madame la Dauphine--An excursion to
Butschirad--Butschirad--Charles X. asleep--Henry V.--Reception
of the young men--The ladder and the peasant-woman--Dinner at
Butschirad--Madame de Narbonne--Henry V.--A rubber--Charles X.--My
incredulity touching the declaration of majority--The newspapers--Scene
of the young men--Prague--I leave for France--I pass by Butschirad
at night--A meeting at Schlau--Carlsbad empty--Hollfeld--Bamberg--My
different St. Francis' Days--Trials of religion--France
BOOK IX 146-198
General politics of the moment--Louis-Philippe--M. Thiers--M. de La
Fayette--Armand Carrel--Of some women: the lady from Louisiana--Madame
Tastu--Madame Sand--M. de Talleyrand--Death of Charles X.
BOOK X 199-225
Conclusion--Historical antecedents from the Regency to 1793--The
Past--The old European order expiring--Inequality of fortunes--Danger
of the expansion of intellectual nature and material nature--The
downfall of the monarchies--The decline of society and the progress of
the individual--The future--The difficulty of understanding it--The
Christian idea is the future of the world--Recapitulation of my
life--Summary of the changes that have happened on the globe during my
life--End of the _Mémoires d'Outre-tombe_
APPENDICES
I. THE MORGANATIC MARRIAGE OF THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY 229-235
II. UNPUBLISHED FRAGMENTS OF THE _MÉMOIRES D'OUTRE-TOMBE_ 236-247
III. THE LAST YEARS OF CHATEAUBRIAND 248-264
IV. THE TRANSLATOR'S SECOND NOTE 265-266
INDEX 269-332
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOL. VI
CHATEAUBRIAND'S TOMB
THE DUCHESSE DE BERRY
THE DUC AND DUCHESSE D'ANGOULÊME
LOUIS PHILIPPE
ADOLPHE THIERS
THE VICOMTESSE DE CHATEAUBRIAND
THE
MEMOIRS OF CHATEAUBRIAND
VOLUME VI[1]
BOOK V
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