My Memoirs (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from My Memoirs First dramatic impressions - The Hamlet of Ducis - The Bourbons en 1815 - Quotations from it, The events of 1814 again - Marmont, Duc de Raguse, Maubreuil and Roux-Laborie at M. de Talleyrand's - The Journal des Débats and the Journal de Paris - Lyrics of the Bonapartists and enthusiasm of the Bourbons - End of the Maubreuil affair - Plot against the life of the Emperor - The Queen of Westphalia is robbed of her money and jewels, Account of the proceedings relative to the abstraction of the jewels of the Queen of Westphalia by the Sieur de Maubreuil - Chamber of the Court of Appeal - The sitting of 17 April, 1817, The last shot of Waterloo - Temper of the provinces in 1817, 1818 and 1819 - The Messeniennes - The Vépres siciliennes - Louis IX. - Appreciation of these two tragedies - A phrase of Terence - My claim to a similar sentiment - Three o'clock in the morning - The course of love-making - Valeat res ludrica, Return of Adolphe de Leuven - He shows me a corner of the artistic and literary world - The death of Holbein and the death of Orcagna - Entrance into the green-rooms - Burger's Lenore - First thoughts of my vocation, The Cerberus of the rue de Largny - I tame it - The ambush - Madame Lebegue - A confession. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.