Chapter 45

"He was dismissed as a minister of State, in 1816, for having attacked in his immortal work on the _Monarchie selon la Charte_, the famous decree of the 5th of September, pronouncing the dissolution of the _Chambre introuvable_ of 1815. Messieurs de Villèle and Corbière were then simple deputies, leaders of the Royalist Opposition, and it was for taking up their defense that M. de Chateaubriand became the victim of the ministerial anger. "Now, in 1824, M. de Chateaubriand is again dismis…