[363] The original name of the Riquettis de Mirabeau was Arrighetti.--T. [364] Victor Riquetti, Marquis de Mirabeau (1715-1789). He joined the economists, advocated liberty, and called himself the Friend of Men, after the title of his principal work, the _Ami des hommes_: nevertheless he proved himself the tyrant of his family, a bad husband, and a bad father. He died on the eve of the capture of the Bastille, 13 July 1789.--T. [365] Jean Antoine Joseph Charles Elzéar de Riquetti (1717-1794). He adopted the title of _bailli_ in 1763, on becoming a grand-cross of the Order of Malta, and was thenceforth known as the Bailli de Mirabeau.--B. [366] Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), author of the famous Memoirs.--T. [367] Reine Philiberte Marquise de Villette (_d._ 1822), _née_ Roupt de Varicourt, was adopted by Voltaire at the instance of his niece, Mme. Denis. She called him uncle; he called her "_Belle et bonne_," and married her in 1777 to the Marquis de Villette (_vide infra_, p. 178).--T. [368] Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier (1754-1794), one of the most capable members of the Constituent Assembly, and a founder of the Club Breton, later the Club des Jacobins. He was guillotined 22 April 1794.--T. [369] Sophie Marquise de Monnier (1760-1789), _née_ Ruffei. For eloping with her, Mirabeau was imprisoned for nearly four years, 1777-1780, at Vincennes by _lettre-de-cachet_ obtained at his father's instance. His letters to Sophie from Vincennes, written in a style of exalted sentiment, were published in 1792 in 4 vols. 8vo. The lady herself was locked up in a convent until the death of her husband, a man very much her senior. She eventually committed suicide because of the infidelity of one of her lovers.--T. [370] Riquetti, not Riquet, instead of Mirabeau. It was in the account of the sitting in which titles of nobility were abolished that the journalist, in conformity with that abolition, dropped Mirabeau's territorial title, and wrote of him by his patronymic of Riquetti.--B. [371] André Boniface Louis Riquetti, Vicomte de Mirabeau (1754-1792), the Comte de Mirabeau's younger brother, nicknamed Mirabeau-Tonneau, because of his stoutness, to distinguish him from his brother, Mirabeau-Tonnerre.--T. [372] M. de Lautrec de Saint-Simon was not a member of the Constituent Assembly, but acted as one of Mirabeau-Tonneau's seconds in his duel with the Duc de Liancourt.--B. [373] Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre (1759-1794), the leader of the Terror.--T. [374] The Château de Montaigne stood on a hill near the village of Saint-Michel, five leagues from Bergerac, in Guyenne. Montaigne was on one occasion captured by marauders and likely to be shot. His good-humour won not only his release but the restoration of the property of which he had been robbed (_Cf._ MONTAIGNE, Booke III. chap. 12: _Of Physiognomy_).--T.