The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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www.freeclassicebooks.com The Memoirs Of Victor Hugo By Victor Hugo www.freeclassicebooks.com 1 www.freeclassicebooks.com Contents PREFACE. .................................................................................................................................................4 AT RHEIMS. 1823‐1838. .......................................................................................................................... 7 I. THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. ..........................................................................................................18 II. ARRIVAL OF NAPOLEON IN PARIS. March 20, 1815..........................................................................22 VISIONS OF THE REAL............................................................................................................................24 I. THE HOVEL. ........................................................................................................................................24 II. PILLAGE. THE REVOLT IN SANTO DOMINGO.....................................................................................28 III. A DREAM. September 6, 1847. ........................................................................................................32 IV. THE PANEL WITH THE COAT OF ARMS. ........................................................................................... 34 V. THE EASTER DAISY. May 29, 1841. ...................................................................................................36 JOANNY. ................................................................................................................................................38 MADEMOISELLE MARS..........................................................................................................................39 FREDERICK LEMAITRE. ..........................................................................................................................40 THE COMIQUES September, 1846 ........................................................................................................42 MADEMOISELLE GEORGES. October, 23, 1867.....................................................................................43 TABLEAUX VIVANTS ..............................................................................................................................44 AT THE ACADEMY..................................................................................................................................46 AN ELECTION SESSION. .........................................................................................................................49 LOVE IN PRISON. ...................................................................................................................................54 I. ............................................................................................................................................................54 II. ...........................................................................................................................................................57 III. ..........................................................................................................................................................60 IV. ..........................................................................................................................................................62 V. ...........................................................................................................................................................64 AT THE TUILERIES. 1844‐1848...............................................................................................................67 I. THE KING. * June, 28, 1844................................................................................................................67 II. THE DUCHESS D'ORLEANS.................................................................................................................82 III. THE PRINCES. 1847...........................................................................................................................84 IN THE CHAMBER OF PEERS. 1846........................................................................................................91 GENERAL FABVIER.................................................................................................................................92 THE REVOLUTION OF 1848. ..................................................................................................................99 I. THE DAYS OF FEBRUARY. ...................................................................................................................99 THE TWENTY‐FOURTH. .......................................................................................................................108 THE TWENTY‐FIFTH.............................................................................................................................122 II. EXPULSIONS AND ESCAPES. ............................................................................................................130 May 3, 1848. .......................................................................................................................................130 IV. KING JEROME.................................................................................................................................135 2 www.freeclassicebooks.com V. THE DAYS OF JUNE..........................................................................................................................138 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ....................................................................................................................138 June 25. ...............................................................................................................................................144 VI. CHATEAUBRIAND...........................................................................................................................145 July 5, 1848. ........................................................................................................................................145 VII. DEBATES IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON THE DAYS OF JUNE...................................................149 SESSION OF NOVEMBER 25, 1848. .....................................................................................................149 1849. ...................................................................................................................................................155 I. THE JARDIN D'HIVER. FEBRUARY, 1849. ..........................................................................................155 II. GENERAL BREA'S MURDERERS. March, 1849. ................................................................................157 III. THE SUICIDE OF ANTONIN MOYNE. April, 1849.............................................................................162 IV. A VISIT TO THE OLD CHAMBER OF PEERS. June, 1849...................................................................165 MONSIEUR THIERS. .............................................................................................................................168 DUFAURE.............................................................................................................................................169 CHANGARNIER. ...................................................................................................................................170 LAGRANGE. .........................................................................................................................................171 PRUDHON. ..........................................................................................................................................172 BLANQUI. ............................................................................................................................................173 LAMARTINE. February 23, 1850..........................................................................................................174 BOULAY DE LA MEURTHE....................................................................................................................175 DUPIN..................................................................................................................................................176 LOUIS BONAPARTE..............................................................................................................................177 I. HIS DEBUTS. .....................................................................................................................................177 II. HIS ELEVATION TO THE PRESIDENCY. December 1848...................................................................180 THE SIEGE OF PARIS. EXTRACTS FROM NOTE‐BOOKS.........................................................................194 3 www.freeclassicebooks.com 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