A little thing I've learnt by reading both Berlioz's Mémoires and Henry Barraud's Berlioz:
Berlioz DID in fact attempt to drown himself by jumping off of some cliff on his way to Corniglia. He just doesn't mention it in his Mémoires, but he tells the story in a letter to his friend Horace Vernet.
My silly ginger boy, what you doing?












