The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6

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

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




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