Chateaubriand's memoirs

Contents 1 Book 1 2 Book 2 3 Book 3 4 Book 4 5 Book 5 6 Book 6 7 Book 7 8 Book 8 9 Book 9 10 Book 10 11 Book 11 12 Book 12 13 Book 13 14 Book 14 15 Book 15 16 Book 16 17 Book 17 18 Book 18 19 Book 19 20 Book 20 21 Book 21 22 Book 22 23 Book 23 24 Book 24 25 Book 25 26 Book 26 27 Book 27 28 Book 28 29 Book 29

Book 1

• Chapter 1: Origins
• Chapter 2: Birth of my brothers and sisters - I arrive in the world.
• Chapter 3: Plancouët – A Vow – Combourg – My father’s scheme for my education – La Villeneuve – Lucile – Mesdemoiselles Couppart – A bad scholar
• Chapter 4: Life of my maternal grandmother and her sister at Plancouët – My uncle the Comte de Bedée, at Monchoix – Release from my nurse’s vow
• Chapter 5: Gesril – Hervine Magon – The fight with the two ship’s boys
• Chapter 6: A note from Monsieur Pasquier – Dieppe – A change in my education – Spring in Brittany – Ancient Forest – Pelagian Fields – Moonset over the sea
• Chapter 7: Departure for Combourg – A description of the Château

Book 2

• Chapter 1: The School at Dol – Mathematics and Languages –The nature of my memory
• Chapter 2: Holidays at Combourg – Life in a provincial château – Feudal customs – The inhabitants of Combourg
• Chapter 3: Holidays again at Combourg – The Conti Regiment – Camp at Saint-Malo – An Abbey – The Theatre – My two eldest sisters’ marriages – Return to school – A revolution begins in my ideas
• Chapter 4: The adventure of the magpie – Three holidays at Combourg – The charlatan – Return to school
• Chapter 5: Invasion of France – Games – The Abbé de Chateaubriand
• Chapter 6: First Communion – I leave Dol College
• Chapter 7: Mission at Combourg – Rennes College – I meet Gesril again – Moreau – Limoëlan – My third sister’s marriage
• Chapter 8: I am sent to Brest to take the Navy examination – The Port of Brest – I meet Gesril again – La Pérouse – I return to Combourg
• Chapter 9: A Walk – The Ghost of Combourg
• Chapter 10: College at Dinan – Broussais – I return to my parents’ house

Book 3

• Chapter 1: Life at Combourg – Days and Evenings.
• Chapter 2: My keep.
• Chapter 3: The passage from childhood to adulthood.
• Chapter 4: Lucile.
• Chapter 5: First breath of the Muse.
• Chapter 6: A manuscript of Lucile’s.
• Chapter 7: The last lines written at the Vallée-aux-Loups – A disclosure concerning my secret life.
• Chapter 8: Phantom of love.
• Chapter 9: Two years delirium – Occupations and dreams.
• Chapter 10: My autumn joys.
• Chapter 11: Incantation.
• Chapter 12: Temptation.
• Chapter 13: Illness – I am afraid and refuse to enter into the ecclesiastical state – A planned passage to India.
• Chapter 14: A moment in my native town – Memory of La Villeneuve and the tribulations of my childhood – I am recalled to Combourg – Last interview with my father – I enter the service -Farewell to Combourg

Book 4

• Chapter 1: Berlin – Potsdam – Frederick.
• Chapter 2: My Brother – My Cousin Moreau – My sister the Comtesse de Farcy.
• Chapter 3: Julie in society – Dinner – Pommereul – Madame de Chastenay.
• Chapter 4: Cambrai – The Navarre Regiment – La Martinière.
• Chapter 5: My father’s death.
• Chapter 6: Regrets – Would my father have appreciated me?.
• Chapter 7: Return to Brittany – A stay with my eldest sister – My brother summons me to Paris.
• Chapter 8: My solitary life in Paris.
• Chapter 9: Presentation at Versailles – Hunting with the King.
• Chapter 10: Trip to Brittany – Garrison in Dieppe – Return to Paris with Lucile and Julie.
• Chapter 11: Delisle de Sales – Flins – Life of a man of letters.
• Chapter 12: Men of letters – Portraits.
• Chapter 13: The Rosanbo family – Monsieur de Malesherbes: his predilection for Lucile – Appearance and transformation of my Sylph

Book 5

• Chapter 1: First political stirrings in Brittany – A glance at the history of the Monarchy.
• Chapter 2: Constitution of the States of Brittany – The meeting of the States.
• Chapter 3: The royal revenues in Brittany – Revenues peculiar to the province – The fouage (feudal tax) – I attend my first political meeting – A Scene.
• Chapter 4: My mother retires to Saint-Malo.
• Chapter 5: Receiving the tonsure - The environs of Saint-Malo.
• Chapter 6: The ghost - Illness.
• Chapter 7: The States of Brittany in 1789 – Insurrection –The death of Saint-Riveul, my friend from college.
• Chapter 8: The year 1789 – Journey from Brittany to Paris–Turmoil along the way – How Paris looked – Dismissal of Monsieur Necker – Versailles – The gaiety of the Royal Family - General insurrection – The taking of the Bastille.
• Chapter 9: The effect on the Court of the taking of the Bastille – The heads of Foulon and Bertier.
• Chapter 10: The recall of Monsieur Necker– The debate of the 4th August 1789 – The Day of the 5th October – The King is brought to Paris.
• Chapter 11: The Constituent Assembly.
• Chapter 12: Mirabeau.
• Chapter 13: The sessions of the National Assembly - Robespierre.
• Chapter 14: Society – How Paris appeared
• Chapter 15: What I did in the midst of all this chaos – My solitary days – Mademoiselle Monet – With Monsieur de Malesherbes I decide on my plan for a voyage to America – Bonaparte and I, unknown second-lieutenants – The Marquis de La Rouërie – I embark at Saint-Malo – Last thoughts on leaving my native land.

Book 6

• Chapter 1: Prologue.
• Chapter 2: Ocean Passage.
• Chapter 3: Francis Tulloch – Christopher Columbus - Camoëns.
• Chapter 4: The Azores – The Island of Graciosa.
• Chapter 5: Ocean customs – The Island of Saint-Pierre.
• Chapter 6: The Virginian Coast – The setting sun – Peril – I land in America – Baltimore – The passengers disperse - Tulloch.
• Chapter 7: Philadelphia – General Washington.
• Chapter 8: Comparison of Washington and Bonaparte.

Book 7

• Chapter 1: Journey from Philadelphia to New-York and Boston - Mackenzie.
• Chapter 2: The Hudson River – A passenger’s recital – Mr Swift – Departure for Niagara Falls with a Dutch guide – Monsieur Violet.
• Chapter 3: My savage outfit– Hunting– The Carcajou or Wolverine– The Muskrat – Water dogs – Insects – Montcalm and Wolfe.
• Chapter 4: Encampment by the Lake of the Onondagas – Arabs – The Indian and the cow.
• Chapter 5: An Iroquois – The Sachem of the Onondagas – Velly and the Franks – A ceremony of hospitality – The Ancient Greeks.
• Chapter 6: Journey from the Lake of the Onondagas to the River Genesee – Bees – Clearings – Hospitality – A bed – A rattlesnake charmed by a flute.
• Chapter 7: An Indian Family – Night in the forest – The family departs – The savages of Niagara Falls – Captain Gordon – Jerusalem.
• Chapter 8: Niagara Falls – A rattlesnake – I fall over the edge of the gorge.
• Chapter 9: Twelve days in a cabin – Changing customs among the savages – Birth and death – Montaigne – Song of the adder –The little Indian girl, the original of Mila.
• Chapter 10: DIGRESSIONS - Ancient Canada – The Indian population – The decline of customs – The true civilisation spread by religion; the false civilisation spread by trade – The Métis or Burntwoods – The Wars between the Companies – The death of the Indian languages.
• Chapter 11: The former French possessions in America – Regrets – Obsession with the past – A note from Francis Conyngham.

Book 8

• Chapter 1: The Lakes of Canada – A fleet of Indian canoes – The history of the rivers.
• Chapter 2: The Course of the Ohio.
• Chapter 3: The Fountain of Youth – Muskogees and Seminoles.
• Chapter 4: Two Floridian Women.
• Chapter 5: The nature of the young Musgokee ladies – The King’s arrest at Vincennes – I interrupt my travels to return to Europe.
• Chapter 6: Potential risks for the United States.
• Chapter 7: Return to Europe - Shipwreck.

Book 9

• Chapter 1: I go to seek my mother at Saint-Malo – The progress of the Revolution – My marriage.
• Chapter 2: Paris – Old and new knowledge – Abbé Barthélemy – Saint-Ange – The Theatre.
• Chapter 3: The changing face of Paris – The Cordeliers Club – Marat.
• Chapter 4: Danton – Camille Desmoulins – Fabre d’Églantine.
• CChapter 5: Monsieur Malesherbes opinion concerning my emigration .
• Chapter 6: I gamble and lose - An adventure in a fiacre (four-wheeled cab) – Madame Roland – The Gate of L’Ermitage – The Second Federation of the 14th July – Preparations for Emigration.
• Chapter 7: I and my brother emigrate – Saint-Louis’ adventure – We cross the frontier.
• Chapter 8: Brussels – Dinner with the Baron de Breteuil - Rivarol – Departure for the Army of the Princes – The route – Encounter with the Prussian Army – I arrive at Trèves.
• Chapter 9: The Army of the Princes – The Roman amphitheatre - Atala – Henry IV and his shirts.
• Chapter 10: A Soldier’s life – The last appearance of the old army of France.
• Chapter 11: The Siege of Thionville begins – The Chevalier de La Baronnais.
• Chapter 12: Continuation of the siege – Contrasts – Saints in the woods – the Battle of Bouvines – On patrol – An unexpected encounter – The effects of cannonballs and shells
• Chapter 13: The Camp’s marketplace.
• Chapter 14: Night by the weapon stacks – Dutch dogs – Remembrance of the martyrs – Who my companions were in the forward positions – Eudore – Ulysses.
• Chapter 15: The passage of the Moselle – Combat – Libba the deaf-mute – The attack on Thionville.
• Chapter 16: The lifting of the siege – Entry into Verdun – The Prussian sickness (dysentery) – Retreat – Smallpox.

Book 10

• Chapter 1: The Ardennes
• Chapter 2: The Prince de Ligne’s wagons – The women of Namure – I find my brother again in Brussels – Our last farewell.
• Chapter 3: Ostend – The crossing to Jersey – I am landed on Guernsey –The pilot’s wife – Jersey – My uncle De Bedée and his family – A description of the island – The Duc de Berry – Friends and relatives lost – The misfortune of growing old – I cross to England – My last meeting with Gesril
• Chapter 4: The Literary Fund – An attic in Holborn – The worsening of my health – A visit to the doctors – Émigrés in London.
• CChapter 5: Peltier – Literary effort – My friendship with Hingant – Our walks – A night in Westminster Cathedral
• Chapter 6: Distress – Unforeseen help – A lodging over a cemetery – New friends in misfortune – Our pleasures – My cousin La Bouëtardais
• Chapter 7: A sumptuous reception – The end of my forty crowns – Fresh misery - Table d’hôte – Bishops – Dining at the London Tavern – Camden’s manuscripts
• Chapter 8: My provincial occupations – My brother’s death – Family misfortunes – Two Frances – Hingant’s letters
• Chapter 9: Charlotte
• Chapter 10: Return to London
• Chapter 11: An astonishing encounter

Book 11

• Chapter 1: A defect in my character
• Chapter 2: The Essai historique sur les Révolutions – Its effect – A letter from Lemière, the nephew of the poet
• Chapter 3: Fontanes – Cléry.
• Chapter 4: The death of my mother – Return to Religion.
• Chapter 5: Le Génie du Christianisme – A letter from the Chevalier de Panat
• Chapter 6: My uncle, Monsieur de Bedée – His eldest daughter

Book 12

• Chapter 1: DIGRESSIONS: English Literature – The withering away of the old schools – Historians – Poets – Publicists - Shakespeare
• Chapter 2: DIGRESSIONS: Old Novels – New novels – Richardson – Walter Scott
• Chapter 3: DIGRESSIONS: The new poetry – Beattie
• Chapter 4: DIGRESSIONS: Lord Byron
• Chapter 5: England from Richmond to Greenwich – A trip with Peltier – Blenheim – Stowe – Hampton Court – Oxford – Eton College – Private life; political life – Fox – Pitt – Burke – George III
• Chapter 6 : The Émigrés return to France – The Prussian Minister grants me a false passport under the name of Lassagne, a resident of Neuchâtel, in Switzerland – The end of my career as a soldier and traveller – I land at Calais

Book 13

• Chapter 1: My stay in Dieppe – Two societies.
• Chapter 2: The stage my Memoirs have reached.
• Chapter 3: The year 1800 – The scene in France – I arrive in Paris.
• Chapter 4: The year 1800 – My life in Paris.
• Chapter 5: A change in society.
• Chapter 6: My life in 1801 – Le Mercure - Atala.
• Chapter 7: The year 1801 – Madame de Beaumont: her set.
• Chapter 8: The year 1801 – Summer at Savigny.
• Chapter 9: The year 1802 – Talma.
• Chapter 10: The years 1802 and 1803 – Le Génie du Christianisme – Disaster predicted – The reason for ultimate success.
• Chapter 11: Le Génie du Christianisme, continued – The faults of the work.

Book 14

• Chapter 1: The years 1802 and 1803 – Châteaux – Madame de Custine – Monsieur de Saint-Martin – Madame d’Houdetot and Saint-Lambert
• Chapter 2: Travels in the French Midi (1802)
• Chapter 3: The years 1802 and 1803 – Monsieur de Laharpe: his death
• Chapter 4: The years 1802 and 1803 – Interview with Napoleon
• Chapter 5: The year 1803 – I am named as First Secretary to the Embassy in Rome
• Chapter 6: The year 1803 – Journey from Paris to the Savoy Alps
• Chapter 7: From Mont Cenis to Rome – Milan and Rome.
• Chapter 8: Cardinal Fesch’s palace – My tasks.

Book 15

• Chapter 1: The year 1803 – Madame de Beaumont’s manuscripts – The letters of Madame de Caud
• Chapter 2: Madame de Beaumont’s arrival in Rome – A letter from my sister.
• Chapter 3: A letter from Madame de Krüdner
• Chapter 4: The death of Madame de Beaumont.
• Chapter 5: The Funeral
• Chapter 6: The year 1803: Letters fom Monsieur Chênedollé, Monsieur de Fontanes, Monsieur Necker, and Madame de Staël
• Chapter 7: The years 1803 and 1804: The first idea of my Memoirs – I am named Minister of France for the Valais – Departure from Rome

Book 16

• Chapter 1: The year 1804 – The Valais Republic – A visit to the TuileriesPalace – The Hôtel de Montmorin – I hear of the death of the Duc d’Enghien – I hand in my resignation.
• Chapter 2: The Death of the Duc d’Enghien.
• Chapter 3: The Year 1804.
• Chapter 4: General Hulin.
• Chapter 5: The Duc de Rovigo.
• Chapter 6: Monsieur de Talleyrand.
• Chapter 7: Their various roles.
• Chapter 8: Bonaparte: his sophistry and remorse.
• Chapter 9: What should be concluded from all this – Enmities created by the death of the Duc d’Enghien.
• Chapter 10: An article in Le Mercure – The change in Bonaparte’s existence.
• Chapter 11: Chantilly Deserted.

Book 17

• Chapter 1: The year 1804 – I take up residence in the Rue de Miromesnil – Verneuil – Alexis de Tocqueville – Le Mesnil – Mézy - Méréville.
• Chapter 2: Madame de Coislin.
• Chapter 3: A journey to Vichy, through Auvergne, to Mont-Blanc.
• Chapter 4: Return to Lyons.
• Chapter 5: Trip to the Grande-Chartreuse.
• Chapter 6: The death of Madame de Caud (Lucile).

Book 18

• Chapter 1: The years 1805 and 1806 – I return to Paris – I leave for the Levant.
• Chapter 2: From Constantinope to Jerusalem – I embark at Constantinople on a ship carrying Greek pilgrims to Syria.
• Chapter 3: From Tunis to my return to France via Spain.
• Chapter 4: Reflection on my Travels – The Death of Julien.
• Chapter 5: The Years 1807, 1808, 1809 and 1810 – An article in the Mercury, June 1807 – I buy the Vallée-Aux-Loups and retreat there.
• Chapter 6: Les Martyrs.
• Chapter 7: Armand de Chateaubriand.
• Chapter 8: The Years 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1814 – Publication of the Itinerary – A letter from Cardinal de Bausset – The death of Chénier – I am received as a member of the Academy – The matter of my speech – The Decennial Prize.
• Chapter 9: L’Essai sur les Révolutions – Les Natchez.

Book 19

• Chapter 1: Bonaparte.
• Chapter 2: Bonaparte – His Family.
• Chapter 3: The Corsican branch of the Bonapartes specifically.
• Chapter 4: Bonaparte’s birth and childhood.
• Chapter 5: Bonaparte’s Corsica.
• Chapter 6: Paoli.
• Chapter 7: Two pamphlets.
• Chapter 8: A Captain’s brevet.
• Chapter 9: Toulon.
• Chapter 10: The Days of Vendémiaire.
• Chapter 11: The Days of Vendémiaire - Continued.
• Chapter 12: The Italian Campaign.
• Chapter 13: The Congress of Rastadt – Napoleon’s return to France – Napoleon is named Commander of the Army against England – He leaves on the Egyptian Expedition.
• Chapter 14: Malta – The Battle of the Pyramids – Cairo – Napoleon inside the Great Pyramid – Suez.
• Chapter 15: The Army’s opinion.
• Chapter 16: The Syrian Campaign.
• Chapter 17: Return to Egypt – The Conquest of Upper Egypt.
• Chapter 18: The Battle of Aboukir – Napoleon’s notes and letters – He returns to France – The 18th Brumaire.

Book 20

• Chapter 1: The position of France on Bonaparte’s return from the Egyptian Campaign.
• Chapter 2: The Consulate: A fresh invasion of Italy – The Thirty-Day Campaign – The Victory of Hohenlinden – The Peace of Luneville.
• Chapter 3: The Peace of Amiens –The breaking of the Treaty – Bonaparte created Emperor.
• Chapter 4: Empire: The Coronation – The Kingdom of Italy.
• Chapter 5: The Invasion of Germany – Austerlitz – The Peace Treaty of Pressbourg – The Sanhedrin.
• Chapter 6: The Fourth Coalition – Prussia vanishes – The Berlin Decree – War against Russia continues in Poland – Tilsit – A plan to divide the world between Napoleon and Alexander – Peace.
• Chapter 7: The War in Spain – Erfurt – The Emergence of Wellington.
• Chapter 8: Pius VII – The Union of the Roman States with France.
• Chapter 9: The sovereign Pontiff’s protest – He is removed from Rome.
• Chapter 10: The Fifth Coalition – The Capture of Venice – The Battle of Essling – The Battle of Wagram – Peace signed in the Emperor of Austria’s palace – Divorce – Napoleon marries Marie-Louise – The birth of the King of Rome.
• Chapter 11: Plans and preparations for the War on Russia – Napoleon’s embarrassment.
• Chapter 12: The Emperor undertakes his Russian expedition – Objections – Napoleon’s mistake.
• Chapter 13: The meeting in Dresden – Bonaparte reviews his army and arrives on the banks of the Niemen.

Book 21

• Chapter 1: The Invasion of Russia – Vilna – Wibicki, the Polish Senator – The Russian Parlimentarian Balashov – Smolensk – Murat – Platov’s son.
• Chapter 2: The Russian retreat – The Borysthenes – Bonaparte’s obsession – Kutuzov succeeds Barclay in command of the Russian Army – The Battle of Moscow or Borodino – Bulletin – The appearance of the battlefield.
• Chapter 3: Extract from the eighteenth bulletin of the Grand Army.
• Chapter 4: The French advance – Rostopchin – Bonaparte on Salutation Hill – The View of Moscow – Napoleon enters the Kremlin – The Burning of Moscow – Bonaparte reaches the Petrovsky Palace with difficulty – Rostopchin’s proclamation – A halt among the ruins of Moscow – Bonaparte’s pastimes.
• Chapter 5: Retreat
• Chapter 6: Smolensk – The Retreat continued.
• Chapter 7: Smolensk – The Crossing of the Berezina.
• Chapter 8: A verdict on the Russian Campaign – The last bulletin of the Grand Army – Bonaparte’s return to Paris – The Senate Address.

Book 22

• Chapter 1: The ills of France – Forced celebrations – A sojourn in my Valley – The Legitimacy awakes..
• Chapter 2: The Pope at Fontainebleau..
• Chapter 3: Defections – The deaths of Lagrange and Delille..
• Chapter 4: The Battles of Lützen, Bautzen and Dresden – Reverses in Spain.
• Chapter 5: The Campaign in Saxony, or the Campaign of The Poets.
• Chapter 6: The Battle of Leipzig – Bonaparte’s return to Paris – the Treaty of Valençay.
• Chapter 7: The Legislature convened – Then adjourned – The Allies cross the Rhine – Bonaparte’s anger – New Year’s Day 1814.
• Chapter 8: The Pope set at liberty.
• Chapter 9: Notes which became the pamphlet: De Bonaparte et des Bourbons – I take an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli – The notable Campaign of 1814 in France..
• Chapter 10: I begin printing my pamphlet – A note from Madame de Chateaubriand.
• Chapter 11: War at the gates of Paris – The appearance of Paris – Battle at Belleville – The Flight of Marie-Louise and the Regency – Monsieur de Talleyrand remains in Paris.
• Chapter 12: The proclamation of General the Prince Schwarzenberg – Alexander’s speech – The capitulation of Paris..
• Chapter 13: The Allies enter Paris.
• Chapter 14: Bonaparte at Fontainebleau – The Regency at Blois.
• Chapter 15: The publication of my pamphlet – De Bonaparte et Des Bourbons.
• Chapter 16: The Senate issue the Decree of Deposition.
• Chapter 17: The Hôtel de la Rue Saint-Florentin – Monsieur de Talleyrand.
• Chapter 18: The Proclamations of the Provisional Government – The Constitution proposed by the Senate.
• Chapter 19: The arrival of the Comte d’Artois – Bonaparte’s abdication at Fontainebleau..
• Chapter 20: Napoleon’s Journey to the Isle of Elba.
• Chapter 21: Louis XVIII at Compiègne – His entry into Paris – The Old Guard – An Irreparable Fault – The Declaration of Saint-Ouen – The Treaty of Paris – The Charter – Departure of the Allies.
• Chapter 22: The first year of the Restoration.
• Chapter 23: Were the Royalists to blame for the Restoration?..
• Chapter 24: First Minister – I publish Réflexions Politiques – Madame la Duchesse de Duras – I am named as Ambassador to Sweden.
• Chapter 25: The exhumation of the remains of Louis XVI – My first 21st of January at Saint-Denis. .
• Chapter 26: The Island of Elba.

Book 23

• Chapter 1: The Commencement of The Hundred Days – The return from Elba.
• Chapter 2: The Legitimacy in a state of torpor – Benjamin Constant’s article – Marshal Soult’s order of the day – A Royal session – The Petition of the Law School to the Chamber of Deputies.
• Chapter 3: A plan for the defence of Paris.
• Chapter 4: The flight of the King – I leave with Madame de Chateaubriand – Problems on the way – The Duc d’Orléans and the Prince de Condé – Tournai, Brussels – Memories – The Duc de Richelieu – The King halts at Ghent and summons me.
• Chapter 5: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN GHENT – The King and his council – I become interim Minister of the Interieur – Monsieur de Lallay-Tollendal – Madame the Duchesse de Duras – Marshal Victor– The Abbé Louis and Comte Beugnot – The Abbé Montesquiou – Dining on white fish: guests.
• Chapter 6: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN GHENT, CONTINUED – The Ghent Moniteur – My report to the King: the effect of that report in Paris – Falsification.
• Chapter 7: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN GHENT, CONTINUED – The Beguinage – How I was received – A grand dinner – Madame de Chateaubriand’s trip to Ostend – My life’s echoes – Anvers – A Stammerer– Death of a young English girl.
• Chapter 8: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN GHENT, CONTINUED – Unusual activity at Ghent – The Duke of Wellington – Monsieur – Louis XVIII
• Chapter 9: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN GHENT, CONTINUED – Historical memories in Ghent – Madame the Duchesse d’Angouleme arrives in Ghent – Monsieur de Sèze – Madame the Duchesse de Lévis.
• Chapter 10: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN GHENT, CONTINUED – The Pavillon Marsan’s equivalent at Ghent – Monsieur Gaillard, Councillor to the Royal Court – A secret visit by Madame la Baronne de Vitrolles – A note from Monsieur – Fouché.
• Chapter 11: EVENTS IN VIENNA – Negotiations by Monsieur de Saint-Léon, Fouché’s envoy – A proposal regarding Monsieur the Duc d’Orléans – Monsieur de Talleyrand – Alexander’s discontent with Louis XVIII – Various claims – La Besnardières’ report – An unexpected proposal to the Congress from Alexander: Lord Clancarthy causes it to fail – Monsieur de Talleyrand returns: his dispatch to Louis XVIII – The Declaration of Alliance, in truncated form in the official Frankfurt newspaper – Monsieur de Talleyrand wishes the King to return to France via the south-east provinces – Various visits to Vienna by the Prince of Benevento – he writes to me at Ghent: his letter
• Chapter 12: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN PARIS – The effect of the Legitimacy’s departure from France – Bonaparte’s astonishment – He is forced to capitulate to ideas he thought moribund – His new system – Three mighty players left – Liberal illusions – Clubs and Federations – Conjuring away the Republic: the Supplementary Act – The Chamber of Representatives convened – The futile Champ-De-Mai.
• Chapter 13: THE HUNDRED DAYS IN PARIS, CONTINUED – Bonaparte’s anxiety and bitterness.
• Chapter 14: A Resolution in Vienna – Action in Paris.
• Chapter 15: What was going on in Ghent – Monsieur de Blacas.
• Chapter 16: The Battle of Waterloo.
• Chapter 17: Confusion in Ghent – The reality of Waterloo.
• Chapter 18: Return of the Emperor – Re-appearance of Lafayette – Bonaparte’s fresh abdication – Stormy sessions of the Chamber of Peers - Threatening omens for the Second Restoration.
• Chapter 19: Departure from Ghent – Arrival at Mons – I lose the first chance of success in my political career – Monsieur de Talleyrand at Mons – A scene with the King – Stupidly, I show an interest in Monsieur de Talleyrand.
• Chapter 20: From Mons to Gonesse – With Monsieur le Comte Beugnot I oppose Fouché’s nomination as a Minister: my reasons – The Duke of Wellington gains the upper hand – Arnouville – Saint-Denis – A last conversation with the King.

Book 24

• Chapter 1: Bonaparte at Malmaison – Universal desertion.
• Chapter 2: Departure from Malmaison – Rambouillet – Rochefort
• Chapter 3: Bonaparte takes refuge with the English fleet – He writes to the Prince Regent
• Chapter 4: Bonparte aboard the Bellerephon – Torbay – The Act confining Bonaparte to St Helena – He transfers to the Northumberland and sets sail
• Chapter 5: An assessment of Bonaparte.
• Chapter 6: Bonaparte’s character
• Chapter 7: Whether Bonaparte has left us in renown the equivalent of what he has taken from us by force?.
• Chapter 8: The uselessness of the truths revealed above.
• Chapter 9: The island of St Helena – Bonaparte travels the Atlantic
• Chapter 10: Napoleon lands on St Helena – His establishment at Longwood – Precautions – Life at Longwood – Visits.
• Chapter 11: Manzoni – Bonaparte’s illness – Ossian – Napoleon’s daydreams by the sea – Projects of escape – Bonaparte’s last occupation – He lies down and does not rise again – He dictates his will – Napoleon’s religious sentiments – Vignali the Chaplain – Napoleon argues with Antomarchi, his doctor – He receives the last sacraments – He dies.
• Chapter 12: Funeral rites.
• Chapter 13: The destruction of Napoleon’s world.
• Chapter 14: My last comments on Napoleon.
• Chapter 15: St Helena since Napoleon’s death.
• Chapter 16: Bonaparte’s exhumation.
• Chapter 17: My visit to Cannes

Book 25

• Chapter 1: The changing world.
• Chapter 2: The years 1815,1816 in my life – I am appointed a Peer of France – My debut at the rostrum – Various speeches.
• Chapter 3: Monarchy according to the Charter
• Chapter 4: Louis XVIII
• Chapter 5: Monsieur Decazes.
• Chapter 6: I am struck off the list of Ministers of State – I sell my books and La Vallée.
• Chapter 7: Further speeches of mine in 1817 and 1818.
• Chapter 8: Meetings at Piet’s.
• Chapter 9: The Conservateur.
• Chapter 10: On the Morality of Material Interests and that of Duty.
• Chapter 11: My life in 1820 – The death of the Duc de Berry.
• Chapter 12: The birth of the Duke of Bordeaux – The women of Bordeaux Market.
• Chapter 13: I assist Monsieur de Villèle and Monsieur de Corbière to their first Ministry – My letter to the Duc de Richelieu – A note from the Duc de Richelieu and my reply – A note from Monsieur de Polignac – Letters from Monsieur de Montmorency and Monsieur de Pasquier.

Book 26

• Chapter 1: My life in 1821 – The Berlin Embassy – Arrival in Berlin – Monsieur Ancillon – The Royal Family – Celebrations for Grand-Duke Nicholas’ marriage – Berlin.
• Chapter 2: Ministers and Ambassadors – History of the Court and society.
• Chapter 3: William Humboldt – Adelbert de Chamisso
• Chapter 4: Princess William – The Opera – A concert.
• Chapter 5: My first despatches – Monsieur de Bonnay.
• Chapter 6: The Park – The Duchess of Cumberland.
• Chapter 7: My despatches, continued.
• Chapter 8: A memoir I started: on Germany.
• Chapter 9: Charlottenburg.
• Chapter 10: The interval between my Berlin and London Embassies – The baptism of Monsieur le Duc de Bordeaux – A letter to Monsieur Pasquier – A letter from Monsieur de Bernstorff – A letter from Monsieur Ancillon – A last letter from Madame the Duchess of Cumberland.
• Chapter 11: Monsieur de Villèle, Finance Minister– I am appointed Ambassador to London.

Book 27

• Chapter 1: The year 1822 – First despatches from London.
• Chapter 2: A conversation with George IV regarding Monsieur Decazes – The nobility of our diplomacy under the Legitimacy – The Parliamentary Session.
• Chapter 3: English Society.
• Chapter 4: More despatches.
• Chapter 5: The resumption of Parliamentary activity – A ball given on behalf of the Irish – A duel between the Duke of Bedford and the Duke of Buckingham – Dinner at Royal Lodge – The Marchioness of Conyngham and her secret.
• Chapter 6: Portraits of the Ministers.
• Chapter 7: More of my despatches.
• Chapter 8: Discussion about the Congress of Verona – A letter to Monsieur Montmorency; his reply which allows me to sense a refusal – Monsieur Villèle’s letter is more favourable – I write to Madame de Duras – A note from Monsieur de Villèle to Madame de Duras.
• Chapter 9: The death of Lord Londonderry.
• Chapter 10: A new letter from Monsieur de Montmorency – A trip to Hartwell – A note from Monsieur de Villèle announcing my nomination to the Congress.
• Chapter 11: The end of the old England – Charlotte Reflections – I leave London.

Book 28

• Chapter 1: The deliverance of the King of Spain – My dismissal.
• Chapter 2: The Opposition follows me.
• Chapter 3: My final diplomatic letters.
• Chapter 4: Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
• Chapter 5: The death of Louis XVIII – The coronation of Charles X.
• Chapter 6: Reception of the Knights of the Orders.
• Chapter 7: I gather my former adversaries around me – My public changes.
• Chapter 8: An extract from my polemic after my fall.
• Chapter 9: I refuse the pension the Minister of State wishes to pay me – The Greek Committee – Monsieur Molé’s note – A letter from Canaris to his son – Madame Récamier sends me an extract from another letter – My complete works.
• Chapter 10: A trip to Lausanne.
• Chapter 11: Return to Paris – The Jesuits – A Letter from Monsieur de Montlosier and my reply.
• Chapter 12: More of my polemics.
• Chapter 13: A letter from General Sébastiani.
• Chapter 14: The death of General Foy – The Law of Love and Justice – A letter from Monsieur Étienne – A letter from Benjamin Constant – I reach the summit of my political importance – An article regarding the King’s name-day – Withdrawal of the law on the policing of the press – Paris illuminated – Monsieur Michaud’s note.
• Chapter 15: Monsieur Villèle’s annoyance – Charles X decides to review the National Guard on the Champ-de-Mars – I write to him: my letter.
• Chapter 16: The Review – The disbanding of the National Guard – The Elected Chamber is dissolved - The new Chamber – The Refusal to Contest - The fall of Villele’s ministry – I contribute to the formation of the new ministry and I accept the Rome embassy.
• Chapter 17: An examination of the reproach against me.
• Chapter 18: Madame de Staël – Her first trip to Germany – Madame Récamier in Paris.
• Chapter 19: Madame de Staël’s return –– Madame Récamier at Coppet – Prince Augustus of Prussia.
• Chapter 20: Madame de Staël’s second trip –– Madame de Staël’s letter to Bonaparte – The Château de Chaumont.
• Chapter 21: Madame Récamier and Monsieur de Montmorency are exiled –– Madame Récamier at Chalons.

Book 29

• Chapter 1: Madame Récamier.
• Chapter 2: The Rome Embassy - Three kinds of material – My Travel Journal.
• Chapter 3: Letters to Madame Récamier.
• Chapter 4: Leo XII and the Cardinals.
• Chapter 5: The Ambassadors.
• Chapter 6: Artists ancient and modern.
• Chapter 7: Past visitors to Rome.
• Chapter 8: The present mode of life in Rome.
• Chapter 9: Surroundings and countryside.
• Chapter 10: A letter to Monsieur Villemain.
• Chapter 11: A letter to Madame Récamier.
• Chapter 12: An explanation of the Memoir you are about to read.
• Chapter 13: Memoir.
• Chapter 14: Letters to Madame Récamier.
• Chapter 15: A despatch.
• Chapter 16: Letters to Madame Récamier.
• Chapter 17: A despatch to Monsieur le Comte Portalis – The death of Leo XII.