Memoirs From Beyond the Grave by Chateaubriand, François-René de -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Biographical Notes Title Page Copyright and More Information Contents Introduction Chateaubriand in America: A Translator’s Note MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

Preface BOOK ONE

1. Origins 2. Birth of My Brothers and Sisters—I Enter the World 3. Plancouët—Vows—Combourg—My Father’s Plans for My Education—La Villeneuve—Lucile—Mesdemoiselles Couppart—I Am a Poor Scholar 4. Life of My Maternal Grandmother and Her Sister at Plancouët—My Uncle, the Comte de Bedée, at Monchoix— The Lifting of My Nurse’s Vow 5. Gesril—Hervine Magon—A Fight With Two Cabin Boys . 41 6. Note from M. Pasquier—Dieppe—A Change in My Education—Springtime in Brittany—Historic Forest— Pelagian Country—The Moon Setting in the Sea 7. Departure for Combourg—Description of the Castle

BOOK TWO

1. Collège de Dol—Mathematics and Languages—Two Features of My Memory 2. Holidays at Combourg—Provincial Château Life— Feudal Ways—Inhabitants of Combourg 3. Further Holidays at Combourg—The Conti Regiment— Camp at Saint-Malo—An Abbey—The Theater—My Two Eldest Sisters Marry—Return to School—A Revolution in My Thoughts 4. Adventure of the Magpie—Third Holiday in Combourg— The Charlatan—Return to School 5. Invasion of France—Games—The Abbé de Chateaubriand 6. First Communion—I Leave the Collège de Dol 7. Combourg—Collège de Rennes—I See Gesril Again— Moreau, Limoëlan—Marriage of My Third Sister 8. I Am Sent to Brest to Take the Naval Exam—The Port of Brest—I Meet Gesril Again—La Pérouse— I Return to Combourg

BOOK THREE

1. A Walk—The Apparition of Combourg 2. Collège de Dinan—Broussais—I Return to My Parents’ House 3. Life in Combourg—Days and Evenings 4. My Keep 5. The Passage from Childhood to Manhood 6. Lucile 7. First Breath of the Muse 8. A Manuscript of Lucile’s 9. Last Lines Written in the Vallée-aux-Loups—Revelation of the Mystery of My Life 10. A Phantom Love 11. Two Years of Delirium—Occupations and Chimeras 12. My Autumn Joys 13. Incantation 14. Temptation 15. Illness—I Fear and Refuse to Enter the Seminary— Plan for a Passage to India 16. A Moment in my Native Town—Recollection of La Villeneuve and the Tribulations of my Childhood— I Am Called Back to Combourg—Last Conversation with my Father—I Enter the Service—Goodbye to Combourg

BOOK FOUR

1. Berlin—Potsdam—Frederick 2. My Brother—My Cousin Moreau—My Sister the Comtesse de Farcy 3. Julie in Society—Dinner—Pommereul—Madame de Chastenay 4. Cambrai—The Navarre Regiment—La Martinière 5. My Father’s Death 6. Regrets—Would My Father Have Appreciated Me? 7. Return to Brittany—A Sojourn in My Eldest Sister’s House—My Brother Calls Me to Paris 8. My Hermit’s Life In Paris 9. Presentation at Versailles—Hunting with the King 10. Journey to Brittany—Garrison in Dieppe—Return to Paris With Lucile and Julie 11. Delisle de Sales—Flins—Life of a Man of Letters 12. Men of Letters—Portraits 13. The Rosambo Family—M. de Malesherbes: His Predilection for Lucile—Appearance and Transformation of My Sylphide

BOOK FIVE

1. First Political Stirrings in Brittany—A Brief Look at the History of the Monarchy 2. The Estates of Brittany—The Meeting of the Estates 3. The King’s Revenue in Brittany—Private Revenue of the Province—Hearth Money—My First Political Gathering—Scene 4. My Mother Retires to Saint-Malo 5. Tonsure—The Lands Around Saint-Malo 6. The Revenant—Illness 7. The Estates of Brittany in 1789—Insurrection— Saint-Riveul, My Former Schoolmate, Is Killed 8. The Year 1789—Journey from Brittany to Paris— Turbulence Along the Way—How Paris Looked— Dismissal of M. Necker—Versailles—The High Spirits of the Royal Family—General Insurrection—The Taking of the Bastille 9. Effect of the Taking of the Bastille on the Court— The Heads of Foulon and Bertier 10. Recall of M. Necker—August 4—October 5—The King Brought to Paris 11. Constituent Assembly 12. Mirabeau 13. Meetings of the National Assembly—Robespierre 14. Society—Paris 15. What I Did Amid This Turmoil—My Solitary Days— Mademoiselle Monet—I Make Plans to Journey to America—Bonaparte and I—The Marquis de La Rouërie— I Embark at Saint-Malo—Last Thoughts on Leaving My Native Land

BOOK SIX

1. Prologue 2. Crossing the Ocean 3. Francis Tulloch—Christopher Columbus—Camões 4. The Azores—The Island of Graciosa 5. Sailors’ Games—The Island of Saint-Pierre 6. The Coast of Virginia—Sunset—Danger—I Land in America— Baltimore—Farewell to My Fellow Passengers—Tulloch 7. Philadelphia—General Washington 8. Parallels Between Washington and Bonaparte

BOOK SEVEN

1. Journey from Philadelphia to New York and Boston— Mackenzie 2. The Hudson River—The Passenger’s Song—Albany— Mr. Swift—Departure for Niagara Falls With a Dutch Guide—M. Violet 3. My Savage Regalia—A Hunt—The Wolverine and the Canadian Fox—The Muskrat—Fishing-Dogs—Insects 4. Encampment on the Shore of the Onondagas’ Lake— Arabs—A Course in Botany—The Indian and the Cow 5. An Iroquois—The Sachem of the Onondagas—Velly and the Franks—Hospitality Ceremony—Ancient Greeks 6. Journey from the Onondagas’ Lake to the Genesee River— Bees—Clearings—Hospitality—Bed—A Charmed Rattlesnake 7. An Indian Family—Night in the Forest—The Family Departs —Indians of Niagara—Captain Gordon—Jerusalem 8. Niagara Falls—Rattlesnake—I Fall by the Edge of the Abyss 9. Twelve Days in a Hut—The Changing Manners of the Indians—Birth and Death—Montaigne—Song of the Adder—A Little Indian Girl, the Original of Mila 10. Old Canada—The Indian Population—Degradation of the Old Indian Ways—True Civilization Promoted by Religion, False Civilization Introduced through Trade— Trappers—Factories—Hunting—The Métis, or Burntwoods —Wars Between Trading Companies—Death of the Indian Languages 11. Former French Possessions in America—Regrets—Mania for the Past—A Note from Francis Conyngham . 306

BOOK EIGHT

1. Original Manuscript from America—Lakes of Canada— A Fleet of Indian Canoes—Nature’s Ruins—Valley of Tombs—History of the Rivers 2. Course of the Ohio 3. Fountain of Youth—Muskogees and Seminoles—Our Camp 4. The Two Floridians—Ruins on the Ohio 5. The Young Muskogee Ladies—The King is Arrested in Varennes—I Interrupt My Travels to Return to Europe 6. Dangers for the United States 7. Return to Europe—Shipwreck

BOOK NINE

1. I Visit My Mother in Saint-Malo—Progress of the Revolution—My Marriage 2. Paris—Acquaintances, Old and New—Abbé Barthélemy— Saint-Ange—Theater 3. The Changing Face of Paris—The Club des Cordeliers— Marat 4. Danton—Camille Desmoulins—Fabre d’Églantine 5. M. de Malesherbes’s Opinion of Emigration 6. I Gamble and Lose—Adventure of the Cab—Madame Roland—At the Gate of Rousseau’s Hermitage—The Second Federation of the Fourteenth of July—Preparations for Emigration 7. I Emigrate with My Brother—The Adventure of Saint Louis—We Cross the Border 8. Brussels—Dinner at the Baron de Breteuil’s—Rivarol— Departure for the Army of Princes—Route—Meeting the Prussian Army—I Arrive in Trèves . 378 9. Army of Princes—Roman Amphitheater—Atala— Henri IV’s Shirts 10. A Soldier’s Life—Last Glimpse of the Old French Military 11. The Siege of Thionville Begins—The Chevalier de La Baronnais 12. The Siege Continues—Contrasts—Forest Saints—Battle of Bouvines—Patrol—An Unexpected Encounter—The Effects of a Bullet and a Bomb 13. The Camp Market 14. Night by the Weapons Stacks—Dutch Dogs—Memory of the Martyrs—My Companions in the Outpost—Eudorus— Ulysses 15. The Moselle Passage—Combat—Libba, Deaf and Dumb— Attack on Thionville 16. The Siege is Raised—Entry into Verdun—Dysentery— Retreat—Smallpox

BOOK TEN

1. The Ardennes 2. The Prince de Ligne’s Wagons—Women of Namur—I Find My Brother in Brussels—Our Last Goodbyes 3. Ostend—Passage to Jersey—I Land in Guernsey—The Pilot’s Wife—Jersey—My Uncle de Bedée and His Family— Description of the Island—The Duc de Berry—Disappeared Relatives and Friends—The Unhappiness of Aging—I Go to England—Last Meeting with Gesril 4. Literary Fund—A Garret in Holborn—My Health Fails— Visits to Physicians—Émigrés in London 5. Pelletier—Literary Labors—My Friendship with Hingant— Our Walks—A Night in Westminster Abbey . 429 6. Destitution—Unforeseen Assistance—Rooms Overlooking a Cemetery—New Comrades in Misfortune—Our Pleasures—My Cousin La Bouëtardais 7. A Sumptuous Banquet—The End of My 120 Francs— Further Destitution—Table d’Hôte—Bishops—Dinner at the London Tavern—Camden’s Manuscripts 8. My Pastimes in the Provinces—The Death of My Brother— My Family’s Misfortunes—The Two Frances—Letters from Hingant . 441 9. Charlotte 10. Return to London 11. An Extraordinary Encounter

BOOK ELEVEN

1. A Defect of My Character 2. The Essai historique sur les Révolutions—Its Effect— A Letter from Lemière, the Poet’s Nephew 3. Fontanes 4. Death of My Mother—Return to Religion 5. The Genius of Christianity—Letter from the Chevalier de Panat 6. My Uncle M. de Bedée: His Eldest Daughter

BOOK TWELVE

1. English Literature—The Fading of the Old School— Historians—Poets—Civilians—Shakespeare 2. Old Novels—New Novels—Richardson—Walter Scott 3. Recent Poetry—Beattie 4. Lord Byron 5. England, From Richmond to Greenwich—A Trip with Pelletier—Bleinheim—Stowe—Hampton Court—Oxford— Eton—Manners, Private and Political—Fox—Pitt—Burke— George III 6. The Émigrés Return to France—The Prussian Ministry Issues Me a False Passport Under the Name “Lassagne” of Neufchâtel, Switzerland—The Close of My Career as a Soldier and a Traveler—I Sail for Calais

Translator’s Acknowledgments Notes

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