parents and lives in peace.
Several years glide away.

"War with Spain. Once he has crossed the Pyrenees, victories everywhere
follow the grandson of Henry IV. He takes the Trocadero, reaches the
pillars of Hercules, crushes the factions, embraces Ferdinand, and
returns.

"Triumphal arches; flowers presented by young girls; dinners at the
Prefecture; 'Te Deum' in the cathedrals. The Parisians are at the height
of intoxication. The city offers him a banquet. Songs containing
allusions to the hero are sung at the theatre.

"The enthusiasm diminishes; for in 1827 a ball organised by subscription
proves a failure.

"As he is High Admiral of France, he inspects the fleet, which is going
to start for Algiers.

"July 1830.--Marmont informs him of the state of affairs. Then he gets
into such a rage that he wounds himself in the hand with the general's
sword. The King entrusts him with the command of all the forces.

"He meets detachments of the line in the Bois de Boulogne, and has not a
word to say to them.

"From St. Cloud he flies to the bridge of Sevres. Coldness of the
troops. That does not shake him. The Royal family leave Trianon. He sits
down at the foot of an oak, unrolls a map, meditates, remounts his
horse, passes in front of St. Cyr, and sends to the students words of
hope.

"At Rambouillet the bodyguards bid him good-bye. He embarks, and during
the entire passage is ill. End of his career.

"The importance possessed by the bridges ought here to be noticed.
First, he exposes himself needlessly on the bridge of the Inn; he
carries the bridge St. Esprit and the bridge of Lauriol; at Lyons the
two bridges are fatal to him, and his fortune dies before the bridge of
Sevres.

"List of his virtues. Needless to praise his courage, to which he joined
a far-seeing policy. For he offered every soldier sixty francs to desert
the Emperor, and in Spain he tried to corrupt the Constitutionalists
with ready money.

"His reserve was so profound that he consented to the marriage arranged
between his father and the Queen of Etruria, to the formation of a new
cabinet after the Ordinances, to the abdication in favour of
Chambord--to everything that they asked him.

"Firmness, however, was not wanting in him. At Angers, he cashiered the
infantry of the National Guard, who, jealous of the cavalry, had
succeeded by means of a stratagem in forming his escort, so that his
Highness found himself jammed into the ranks at the