I collect my former adversaries around myself--My public charges--Extract from my polemics after my fall--Visit to Lausanne--Return to Paris--The çoisRenéJesuits--Letter from M. de Montlosier and my reply--Continuation of my polemics--Letter from General Sébastiani--Death of General Foy--The Law of Justice and Love--Letter from M. Étienne--Letter from M. Benjamin Constant--I attain the highest pitch of my political importance--Article on the King's saint's-day--Withdrawal of the law on the police of the press--Paris illuminated--Note from M. Michaud--M. de Villèle's irritation--Charles X. proposes to review the National Guard on the Champ de Mars--I write to him: my letter--The review--The National Guard disbanded--The Elective Chamber is dissolved--The new Chamber--Refusals to co-operate--Fall of the Villèle Ministry--I contribute towards forming the new ministry and accept the Roman Embassy--Examination of a reproach
Madame Récamier--Childhood of Madame Récamier described by M. Benjamin Constant--Letter to Madame Récamier from Lucien Bonaparte--Continuation of M. Benjamin Constant's narrative: Madame de Staël--Madame Récamier's journey to England--Madame de Staël's first journey to Germany--Madame Récamier in Paris--Plans of the generals--Portrait of Bernadotte--Trial of Moreau--Letters from Moreau and Masséna to Madame Récamier--Death of M. Necker--Return of Madame de Staël--Madame Récamier at Coppet--Prince Augustus of Prussia--Madame de Staël's second journey to Germany--The Château de Chaumont--Letter from Madame de Staël to Bonaparte--Madame Récamier and M. Mathieu de Montmorency exiled--Madame Récamier at Châlons--Madame Récamier at Lyons--Madame de Chevreuse--Spanish prisoners--Madame Récamier in Rome--Albano-Canova: his letters--The Albano fisherman--Madame Récamier in Naples--The Duc de Rohan-Chabot--King Murat: his letters--Madame Récamier returns to France--Letter from Madame de Genlis--Letters from Benjamin Constant--Articles by Benjamin Constant on Bonaparte's return from Elba--Madame de Krüdener--The Duke of Wellington--I meet Madame Récamier again--Death of Madame de Staël--The Abbaye-aux-Bois
My Embassy to Rome--Three kinds of materials-Diary of the road--Letters to Madame Récamier--Leo XII. and the Cardinals--The ambassadors--The old artists and the new artists--Old Roman society--Present manners of Rome--Town and country--Letter to M. Villemain--Letter to Madame Récamier--Explanation concerning the memorandum I am about to quote--Letter to M. le Comte de La Feironnays--Memorandum on Eastern Affairs--Letters to Madame Récamier--Letter to M. Thierry--Dispatch to M. le Comte de La Ferronnays--More letters to Madame Récamier--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Death of Leo XII.--Dispatch to M. le Comte Portalis--Letter to Madame Récamier