had also become vacant.

On the day following that on which my election was known in Paris, I
had to deliver my lecture at the Sorbonne. As I entered the hall, the
entire audience rose and received me with a burst of applause. I
immediately checked them, and said: "I thank you for your kind
reception, by which I am sensibly affected. I request two favours of
you; the first is to preserve always the same feelings towards me; the
second is, never to evince them again in this manner. Nothing that
passes without should resound within these walls. We come here to treat
of pure, unmingled science, which is essentially impartial,
disinterested, and estranged from all external occurrences, important or
insignificant. Let us always maintain for learning this exclusive
character. I hope that your sympathy will accompany me in the new career
to which I am called; I will even presume to say that I reckon upon it.
Your silent attention here is the most convincing proof I can receive."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 18: He was, in fact, extremely ill at the moment of this
crisis.]

[Footnote 19: February 23rd, and April 20th, 1829.]

CHAPTER VIII.

ADDRESS OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE.

1830.

MENACING, AND AT THE SAME TIME INACTIVE ATTITUDE OF THE
MINISTRY.--LAWFUL EXCITEMENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.--ASSOCIATION
FOR THE ULTIMATE REFUSAL OF THE NON-VOTED TAXES.--CHARACTER AND
VIEWS OF M. DE POLIGNAC.--MANIFESTATIONS OF THE MINISTERIAL
PARTY.--NEW ASPECT OF THE OPPOSITION.--OPENING OF THE
SESSION.--SPEECH OF THE KING.--ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF
PEERS.--PREPARATION OF THE ADDRESS OF THE CHAMBER OF
DEPUTIES.--PERPLEXITY OF THE MODERATE PARTY AND OF
M. ROYER-COLLARD.--DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.--THE PART TAKEN IN IT BY
M. BERRYER AND MYSELF.--PRESENTATION OF THE ADDRESS TO THE
KING.--PROROGATION OF THE SESSION.--RETIREMENT OF MM. DE CHABROL
AND COURVOISIER.--DISSOLUTION OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.--MY
JOURNEY TO NISMES FOR THE ELECTIONS.--TRUE CHARACTER OF THE
ELECTIONS.--INTENTIONS OF CHARLES X.

Whether, attention is arrested by the life of an individual or the
history of a nation, there is no spectacle more imposing than that of a
great contrast between the surface and the interior, the appearance and
the reality of matters. To be excited under the semblance of immobility,
to do nothing while we expect much, to look on the calm while we
anticipate the