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
Organisation of the Parisian Artillery—Metamorphosis of myuniform of a Mounted National Guardsman—Bastide—GodefroyCavaignac—Guinard—Thomas—Names of the batteries andof their principal servants—I am summoned to seize theChamber—How many of us came to the rendez-vous 1
Odilon Barrot, Préfet of the Seine—His soirées—Hisproclamation upon the subject of riots—Dupont (de l'Eure)and Louis-Philippe—Resignation of the ministry of Molé andGuizot—The affair of the forest of Breteuil—The Laffitteministry—The prudent way in which registration was carriedout 10
Béranger as Patriot and Republican 20
Béranger, as Republican 28
Death of Benjamin Constant—Concerning his life—Funeralhonours that were conferred upon him—His funeral—Lawrespecting national rewards—The trial of theministers—Grouvelle and his sister—M. Mérilhouand the neophyte—Colonel Lavocat—The Court ofPeers—Panic—Fieschi 38
The artillerymen at the Louvre—Bonapartist plot to takeour cannon from us—Distribution of cartridges by GodefroyCavaignac—The concourse of people outside the Luxembourgwhen the ministers were sentenced—Departure of thecondemned for Vincennes—Defeat of the judges—La Fayetteand the riot—Bastide and Commandant Barré on guard withProsper Mérimée 50
We are surrounded in the Louvre courtyard—Our ammunitiontaken by surprise—Proclamation of the Écoles—Letter ofLouis-Philippe[Pg vi] to La Fayette—The Chamber vote of thanks tothe Colleges—Protest of the École polytechnique—Discussionat the Chamber upon the General Commandership of theNational Guard—Resignation of La Fayette—The king'sreply—I am appointed second captain 59
The Government member—Chodruc-Duclos—His portrait—Hislife at Bordeaux—His imprisonment at Vincennes—TheMayor
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