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MY MEMOIRS

BY

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

TRANSLATED BY

E. M. WALLER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ANDREW LANG

IN SIX VOLUMES

VOL. V

1831 TO 1832

WITH A FRONTISPIECE

NEW YORK

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1908




CONTENTS


    BOOK I

    CHAPTER I

    Organisation of the Parisian Artillery--Metamorphosis of my
    uniform of a Mounted National Guardsman--Bastide--Godefroy
    Cavaignac--Guinard--Thomas--Names of the batteries and
    of their principal servants--I am summoned to seize the
    _Chamber_--How many of us came to the rendezvous

    CHAPTER II

    Odilon Barrot, Préfet of the Seine--His soirées--His
    proclamation upon the subject of riots--Dupont (de l'Eure)
    and Louis-Philippe--Resignation of the ministry of Mole and
    Guizot--The affair of the forest of Breteuil--The Laffitte
    ministry--The prudent way in which registration was carried
    out

    CHAPTER III

    Béranger as Patriot and Republican 20

    CHAPTER IV

    Béranger, as Republican 28

    CHAPTER V

    Death of Benjamin Constant--Concerning his life--Funeral
    honours that were conferred upon him--His funeral--Law
    respecting national rewards--The trial of the
    ministers--Grouvelle and his sister--M. Mérilhou
    and the neophyte--Colon