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BY
F. GUIZOT,
AUTHOR OF 'MEMOIRS OF SIR ROBERT PEEL;' 'HISTORY OF OLIVER CROMWELL,' ETC. ETC.
VOLUME I.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1858.
PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, LONDON.
OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAPTER I.
FRANCE BEFORE THE RESTORATION.
1807-1814.
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| My Reasons for publishing these Memoirs during my Life.—MyIntroduction into Society.—My First Acquaintance with M. deChâteaubriand, M. de Suard, Madame de Staël, M. de Fontanes,M. Royer-Collard.—Proposal to appoint me Auditor in the ImperialState Council.—Why the Appointment did not take place.—Ienter the University and begin my Course of Lectures onModern History.—Liberal and Royalist Parties.—Characters ofthe different Oppositions towards the Close of the Empire.—Attemptedresistance of the Legislative Body.—MM. Lainé, Gallois,Maine-Biran, Raynouard, and Flaugergues.—I leave Paris forNismes.—State of Paris and France in March, 1814.—The Restorationtakes place.—I return to Paris, and am appointed Secretary-Generalto the Ministry of the Interior. | 1 |
CHAPTER II.
THE RESTORATION.
1814-1815.
| Sentiments with which I commenced Public Life.—True Cause andCharacter of the Restoration.—Capital Error of the Imperial[iv]Senate.—The Charter suffers from it.—Various Objections to thethe Charter.—Why they were Futile.—Cabinet of King LouisXVIII.—Unfitness of the Principal Ministers for ConstitutionalGovernment.—M. de Talleyrand.—The Abbé de Montesquieu.—M.de Blacas.—Louis XVIII.—Principal Affairs in which I wasconcerned at that Epoch.—Account of the State of the Kingdomlaid before the Chambers.—Bill respecting the Press.—Decreefor the Reform of Public Instruction.—State of the Governmentand the Country.—Their Common Inexperience.—Effects of theLiberal System.—Estimate of Public Discontent and Conspiracies.—Sayingof Napoleon on the Facility of his Return. | 27 |
CHAPTER III.
THE HUNDRED DAYS.
1815.
| I immediately leave the Ministry of the Interior, to resume myLectures.—Unsettled Feeling of the Middle Classes on the Returnof Napoleon.—Its Real Causes.—Sentiments of ForeignNations and Governments towards Napoleon.—Apparent Reconciliation,but Real Struggle, between Napoleon and the Liberals.—TheFederates. ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |