20 AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND 



elusions, nor did I care; I had the fun, that's all I 

 wanted. 



From this stage of my condition in that place, until 

 June, 1837, I have not many incidents of my life to 

 relate, besides what I said before, only that new ideas 

 added to old ones, were constantly fomenting in my 

 brain, owing to my solitary life, for I had nobody with 

 whom I could exchange my views, my conceptions, 

 except some occasional correspondence with acquain- 

 tances in Paris. The revolution of 1830 had disap- 

 pointed me ; from that event I had expected the proc- 

 lamation of the Republic, laws more liberal, universal 

 suffrage ; instead of that, and thanks to the influence 

 of General Lafayette and other lukewarm Republicans 

 of the same school, we had another King. The politi- 

 cal and religious constitution did not suit me, and every 

 day I was sighing for the moment I would have money 

 enough to quit France. I tried to get a situation under 

 the government to go to Madagascar, but the man who 

 could get me the position would not do it ; he had been 

 there two or three years and had been sick all the time, 

 etc., etc. "I am sorry." " I, too," he said, " though 



you are one of those d exalted Republicans who 



frequently compel us National Guards to take our 

 muskets to quell your stupid notions of Democracy," etc. 

 He was a good man enough but he was gangrened 



