MY MEMOIRS
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
VOL. II
1822 TO 1825
WITH A FRONTISPIECE
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1907
CONTENTS
An unpublished chapter from the Diable boiteux—Historyof Samud and the beautiful Doña Lorenza 1
The good my flouting at the hands of the two Parisianshad done me—The young girls of Villers-Cotterets—Mythree friends—First love affairs 13
Adolphe de Leuven—His family—Unpublished detailsconcerning the death of Gustavus III.—The Count deRibbing—The shoemakers of the château de Villers-Hellon 24
Adolphe's quatrain—The water-hen and King William—Lunchin the wood—The irritant powder, the frogs and thecock—The doctor's spectre—De Leuven, Hippolyte Leroyand I are exiled from the drawing-room—Unfortunateresult of a geographical error—M. Paroisse 34
Amédée de la Ponce—He teaches me what work is—M.Arnault and his two sons—A journey by diligence—Agentleman fights me with cough lozenges and I fight himwith my fists—I learn the danger from which I escaped 48
First dramatic impressions—The Hamlet of Ducis—TheBourbons en 1815—Quotations from it 57
The events of 1814 again—Marmont, Duc de Raguse,Maubreuil and Roux-Laborie at M. de Talleyrand's—TheJournal des Débats and the Journal de Paris—Lyricsof the Bonapartists and enthusiasm of the Bourbons—Endof the Maubreuil affair—Plot against the life of theEmperor—The Queen of Westphalia is robbed of her moneyand jewels 63
Account of the proceedings relative to the abstractionof the jewels of the Queen of Westphalia by the Sieur deMaubreuil—Chamber of the Court of Appeal—The sitting of17 April, 1817 88
The last shot of Waterloo—Temper of the provinces in1817, 1818 and 1819—The Messéniennes—The Vêpressiciliennes—Louis IX.—Appreciation of these twotragedies—A phrase of Terence—My c
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