From Bruxelles to Liege - A priest's declamation against the French
Revolution - Maastricht - Aix-la-Chapelle - Imperial relics - Napoleon
regretted
- Klingmann's "Faust" - A Tyrolese beauty - Cologne - Difficulties
about a passport - The Cathedral - King-craft and priest-craft - The
Rhine - Bonn and Godesberg - Goethe's "Goetz von Berlichingen" - The Seven
Mountains - German women - Andernach - Ehrenbreitstein - German hatred against
France - Coblentz - Intrigues of the Bourbon princes in Coblentz - Mayence -
Bieberich - Conduct of the Allies towards Napoleon - Frankfort on the
Mayn - An anecdote about Lord Stewart and Lafayette - German poetry - The
question of Alsace and Lorraine - Return to Bruxelles - Napoleon's surrender.
CHAPTER III
From Bruxelles to Paris - Restoration of Louis XVIII - The officers of the
allied armies - The Palais Royal - The Louvre - Protest of the author against
the proposed despoiling of the French Museums - Unjust strictures against
Napoleon's military policy - The cant about revolutionary robberies - The
Grand Opera - Monuments in Paris - The Champs Elysees - Saint-Cloud - The
Hotel des Invalides - The Luxembourg - General Labedoyere - Priests and
emigrants - Prussian Plunder - Handsome behaviour of the English
officers - Reminiscences of Eton - Versailles.
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 Abbe
Delille - The Opera 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 - Macon - 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.
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