MY MEMOIRS
BY
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TRANSLATED BY
E. M. WALLER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
ANDREW LANG
VOL. I
1802 TO 1821
WITH A FRONTISPIECE
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1907
NOTE
The translator has, in the main, followed the edition published atBrussels in 1852-56, in the Preface to which the publishers state thatthey have printed from "le manuscrit autographe" of the author. Theyfurthermore print a letter from Dumas, dated Brussels, 23rd December1851, in which Dumas says:
"Je vous offre donc, mon cher Meline, de revoir moi-même les épreuvesde votre réimpression, et de faire de votre édition de Bruxelles laseule édition complète qui paraîtra à l'étranger."
The translation has been collated (a) with the current edition, and(b) with the original edition published in Paris in 1852-55, andcertain omitted passages have been restored. Dumas' spelling of propernames has been followed save in a few cases deemed to be misprints.
THESE MEMOIRS ARE DEDICATED TO
THE HONOURABLE
COUNT ALFRED D'ORSAY
MY FELLOW-CRAFTSMAN
AND MY BOSOM FRIEND
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
CONTENTS
My birth—My name is disputed—Extracts from the official registers ofVillers-Cotterets—Corbeil Club—My father's marriage certificate—Mymother—My maternal grandfather—Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, fatherof Philippe-Égalité—Madame de Montesson—M. de Noailles and theAcademy—A morganatic marriage 1
My father—His birth—The arms of the family—The serpents ofJamaica—The alligators of St. Domingo—My grandfather—A young man'sadventure—A first duel—M. le duc de Richelieu acts as second formy father—My father enlists as a private soldier—He changes hisname—Death of my grandfather—His death certificate 11
My father rejoins his regiment—His portrait—His strength—Hisskill—The Nile serpent—The regiment of the King and the regiment ofthe Queen—Early days of the Revolution—Declaration of Pilnitz—Thecamp at Maulde—The thirteen Tyrolean chasseurs—My father's name ismentioned in the order of the day—France under Providence—Voluntaryenlistments—St.-Georges and Boyer—My father lieutenant-colonel—Thecamp of the Madeleine—The pistols of Lepage—My father General ofBrigade in the Army of the North 21
My father is sent to join Kléber—He is nominated General-in-Chiefin the Western Pyrenees—Bouchotte's letters—Instructions of theConvention—The Representatives of the People who sat at Bayonne—Theirproclama
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