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Title: Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time
Volume 1

Author: Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

Translator: John William Cole

Release Date: February 24, 2009 [EBook #28169]

Language: English

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MEMOIRS

TO ILLUSTRATE

THE HISTORY OF MY TIME.

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.

CONTENTS

OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

* * * * *

CHAPTER I.

FRANCE BEFORE THE RESTORATION.

1807-1814.

Page

My Reasons for publishing these Memoirs during my Life.--My
Introduction into Society.--My First Acquaintance with
M. de Chateaubriand, M. de Suard, Madame de Stael, M. de Fontanes,
M. Royer-Collard.--Proposal to appoint me Auditor in the Imperial
State Council.--Why the Appointment did not take place.--I enter
the University and begin my Course of Lectures on Modern
History.--Liberal and Royalist Parties.--Characters of the
different Oppositions towards the Close of the Empire.--Attempted
resistance of the Legislative Body.--MM. Laine, Gallois,
Maine-Biran, Raynouard, and Flaugergues.--I leave Paris for
Nismes.--State of Paris and France in March, 1814.--The Restoration
takes place.--I return to Paris, and am appointed Secretary-General
to the Ministry