CHAPTER V

My mother and I conspire--The secret--M. Richard--_La pistole_ and the pistols--The offer made to the brothers Lallemand in order to save them--They refuse--I meet one of them, twenty-eight years later, at the house of M. le duc de Cazes

## CHAPTER VI Napoleon and the Allies--The French army and the Emperor pass through Villers-Cotterets--Bearers of ill tidings

## CHAPTER VII Waterloo--The Élysée--La Malmaison

## CHAPTER VIII Cæsar--Charlemagne--Napoleon

## CHAPTER IX The rout--The haricot mutton reappears--M. Picot the lawyer--By diplomatic means, he persuades my mother to let me go shooting with him--I despise sleep, food and drink

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