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THE MEMOIRS OF VICTOR HUGO

CONTENTS.
PREFACE
AT RHEIMS, 1825-1838
RECOUNTED BY EYE-WITNESSES: I. The Execution of Louis XVI.
II. The Arrival of Napoleon I. in Paris in 1815.
VISIONS OF THE REAL: I. The Hovel. II. Pillage. III. A Dream. IV.
The Panel with the Coat of Arms. V. The Easter Daisy.
THEATRE: I. Joanny. II. Mademoiselle Mars. III. Frédérick Lemaitre.
IV. The Comiques. V. Mademoiselle Georges. VI. Tableaux Vivants.
AT THE ACADEMY
LOVE IN PRISON
AT THE TUILERIES, 1844-1848: I. The King. II. The Duchess
d'Orleans. III. The Princes.
IN THE CHAMBER OF PEERS: Gen. Febvier
THE REVOLUTION OF 1848: I. The Days of February. II. Expulsions
and Evasions. III. Louis Philippe in Exile. IV. King Jerome. V. The
Days of June. VI. Chateaubriand. VII. Debates on the Days of June.
1849: I. The Jardin d'Hiver. II. General Bréa's Murderers. III. The
Suicide of Antonin Moyne. IV. A Visit to the Old Chamber of Peers.
SKETCHES MADE IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: I. Odilon
Barrot. II. Monsieur Thiers. III. Dufaure. IV. Changarnier. V. Lagrange.
VI. Prudhon. VII. Blanqui. VIII. Larmartine. IX. Boulay de la Meurthe.

X. Dupin.
LOUIS BONAPARTE: I. His Debuts. II. His Elevation to the
Presidency. III. His First Official Dinner. IV. The First Month. V.
Feeling His Way.
THE SIEGE OF PARIS
THE ASSEMBLY AT BORDEAUX

PREFACE.

This volume of memoirs has a double character--historical and intimate.
The life of a period, the XIX Century, is bound up in the life of a man,
VICTOR HUGO. As we follow the events set forth we get the
impression they made upon the mind of the extraordinary man who
recounts them; and of all the personages he brings before us he himself
is assuredly not the least interesting. In portraits from the brushes of
Rembrandts there are always two portraits, that of the model and that of
the painter.
This is not a diary of events arranged in chronological order, nor is it a
continuous autobiography. It is less and it is more, or rather, it is better
than these. It is a sort of haphazard chronique in which only striking
incidents and occurrences are brought out, and lengthy and wearisome
details are avoided. VICTOR HUGO'S long and chequered life was
filled with experiences of the most diverse character--literature and
politics, the court and the street, parliament and the theatre, labour,
struggles, disappointments, exile and triumphs. Hence we get a series
of pictures of infinite variety.
Let us pass the