CHAPTER I

Preparations for my Fancy Dress Ball--I find that my lodgings are too much after the style of Socrates--My artist-decorators--The question of the supper--I go for provisions to la Ferté-Vidame--View of this capital town of the Canton, by night, in a snowstorm--My nephew's room--My friend Gondon--Roebuck hunting--Return to Paris--I invent a Bank of Exchange before M. Proudhon--The artists at work--The dead

## CHAPTER II Alfred Johannot

## CHAPTER III Clément Boulanger

## CHAPTER IV Grandville

## CHAPTER V Tony Johannot

## BOOK II

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