CHAPTER IV
From Paris to Bruxelles—Visiting the plains of Waterloo—The Duke de Berri
at Lille—Beauvais—Return to Paris—Remarks on the French theatre
—Talma—Mlle Duchesnois—Mlle Georges—French alexandrine verse—The Abbé
Delille—The Opéra Comique.
CHAPTER V
From Paris to Milan through Dijon, Chalon-sur-Saone, Lyons, Geneva and the
Simplon—Auxerre—Dijon—Napoleon at Chalon-sur-Saone—The army of the
Loire—Mâcon—French grisettes—Lyons—Monuments and theatricals—
Geneva—Character and opinions of the Genevois—Voltaire's chateau at
Ferney—The chevalier Zadera—From Geneva to Milan—Crossing the
Simplon—Arona—The theatres in Milan—Rossini—Monuments in Milan—Art
encouraged by the French—Mr Eustace's bigotry—Return to Switzerland
—Clarens and Vevey—Lausanne—Society in Lausanne—Return to Paris—The
Louvre stripped—Death of Marshal Ney.
PART II
CHAPTER VI
MARCH-JUNE, 1816
Ball at Cambray, attended by the Duke of Wellington—An Adventure between
Saint Quentin and Compiègne—Paris revisited—Colonel Wardle and Mrs
Wallis—Society in Paris—The Sourds-Muets—The Cemetery of Père La
Chaise—Apathy of the French people—The priests—Marriage of the Duke de
Berri.
CHAPTER VII
Journey from Paris to Lausanne—Besançon—French refugees in Lausanne
—Francois Lamarque—General Espinassy—Bordas—Gautier—Michau—M. de
Laharpe—Mlle Michaud—Levade, a Protestant minister—Chambéry—Aix
—Details about M. de Boigne's career in India—English Toryism and
intolerance—Valley of Maurienne—Passage across Mont Cenis and arrival at
Suza—Turin.