MY MEMOIRS

BY

ALEXANDRE DUMAS

TRANSLATED BY

E. M. WALLER

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

ANDREW LANG

VOL. VI

1832 TO 1833

WITH A FRONTISPIECE
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1909

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CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I

Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball—I find that mylodgings are too much after the style of Socrates—Myartist-decorators—The question of the supper—I go forprovisions to la Ferté-Vidame—View of this capital town ofthe Canton, by night, in a snowstorm—My nephew's room—Myfriend Gondon—Roebuck hunting—Return to Paris—I inventa Bank of Exchange before M. Proudhon—The artists atwork—The dead 1

CHAPTER II

Alfred Johannot 10

CHAPTER III

Clément Boulanger 18

CHAPTER IV

Grandville 28

CHAPTER V

Tony Johannot 36

BOOK II

CHAPTER I

Sequel to the preparations for my ball—Oil anddistemper—Inconveniences of working at night—HowDelacroix did his task—The ball—Serious men—La Fayetteand Beauchene—Variety of costumes—The invalid and theundertaker's man—The last galop—A political play—Amoral play 42

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CHAPTER II

Dix ans de la vie d'une femme 53

CHAPTER III

Doligny manager of the theatre in Italy—Saint-Germainbitten by the tarantula—How they could have livened upVersailles if Louis-Philippe had wished it—The censorshipof the Grand-Duke of Tuscany—The bindings of printerBatelli—Richard Darlington, Angèle, Antony and La Tourde Nesle performed under the name of Eugène Scribe 83

CHAPTER IV

A few words on La Tour de Nesle and M. FrédérickGaillardet—The Revue des Deux Mondes—M. Buloz—TheJournal des Voyages—My first attempt at Romanhistory—Isabeau de Bavière—A witty man of five foot nineinches <

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