My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830

CHAPTER I

I become a fully fledged employé--Bad plays--Thibaut--My studies with him--Where they have been of use to me--_Amaury_ and the consumptives--My reading--Walter Scott--Cooper--Byron--The pleasure of eating _Sauerkraut_ at the Parthenon

On 1 January 1824 I was promoted from being one of the supernumerary clerks at twelve hundred francs per annum to the position of bein...