My Memoirs (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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I return to my mother's - The excuse I give concerning my return The calf's lights - Pyramus and Cartouche - The intelligence of the fox more developed than that of the dog - Death of Cartouche - Pyramus's various gluttonous habits.

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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.

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