MEMOIRS OF COUNT GRAMMONT    


      By Anthony Hamilton    


      Edited, With Notes, By Sir Walter Scott    

 

 
      Contents    
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON. 
 CHAPTER FIRST. INTRODUCTION 
 CHAPTER SECOND. ARRIVAL OF THE CHEVALIER            GRAMMONT AT THE SIEGE OF TRINO, AND THE LIFE HE LED THERE 
 CHAPTER THIRD. EDUCATION AND ADVENTURES OF            THE CHEVALIER GRAMMONT BEFORE HIS COMING TO THE SIEGE OF TRINO 
 CHAPTER FOURTH. HIS ARRIVAL AT THE COURT OF            TURIN, AND HOW HE SPENT HIS TIME THERE 
 CHAPTER FIFTH. HE RETURNS TO THE COURT OF            FRANCE—HIS ADVENTURES AT THE SIEGE OF ARRAS—HIS REPLY TO            CARDINAL MAZARIN—HE IS BANISHED THE COURT 
 CHAPTER SIXTH. HIS ARRIVAL AT THE ENGLISH            COURT—THE VARIOUS PERSONAGES OF THIS COURT 
 CHAPTER SEVENTH. HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH MISS            HAMILTON—VARIOUS ADVENTURES AT THE BALL IN THE QUEEN’S            DRAWING-ROOM—CURIOUS VOYAGE OF HIS VALET-DE-CHAMBRE TO AND            FROM PARIS 
 CHAPTER EIGHTH. FUNNY ADVENTURE OF THE            CHAPLAIN POUSSATIN—THE STORY OF THE SIEGE OF LERIDA—MARRIAGE            OF THE DUKE OF YORK, AND OTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE ENGLISH COURT 
 CHAPTER NINTH. VARIOUS LOVE INTRIGUES AT            THE ENGLISH COURT 
 CHAPTER TENTH. OTHER LOVE INTRIGUES AT THE            ENGLISH COURT 
 CHAPTER ELEVENTH. RETURN OF THE CHEVALIER            GRAMMONT TO FRANCE—HE IS SENT BACK TO ENGLAND—VARIOUS            LOVE INTRIGUES AT THIS COURT, AND MARRIAGE OF MOST OF THE HEROES OF            THESE MEMOIRS 

 

 
  
      BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ANTHONY HAMILTON.    
      Anthony Hamilton, the celebrated author of the Grammont Memoirs, much      cannot now be with certainty known.    
        [For uniformity’s sake the writer of this sketch has followed the        Memoirs in the spelling of this name; but he thinks it necessary to        observe that it should be Gramont, not Grammont.]      
      The accounts prefixed to the different editions of his works, down to the      year 1805, are very imperfect; in that year a new, and, in general, far      better edition than any of the preceding ones, was published in Paris, to      which a sketch of his life was also added; but it contains rather just      criticisms on his works, than any very novel or satisfactory anecdote      concerning himself. It is not pretended here to gratify literary curiosity      as fully as it ought to be, with regard to this singular and very      ingenious man; some effort, however, may be made to communicate a few more      particulars relative to him, than the public has hitherto, perhaps, been      acquainted with.    
      Anthony Hamilton was of the noble family of that name:                         
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