[375] Laurent Marshal Marquis Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (1764-1830), later a distinguished officer in the armies of the Republic and the Empire. He would appear to have achieved no great success as either an amateur or professional actor.--T. [376] L'_Autre Tartufe, ou, la Mère Coupable_, a prose drama in five acts, produced 6 June 1792.--B. [377] The four leading and accomplished singers in the Italian _Opera Buffa_ company which first played in the Salle des Machines at the Tuileries and later, when the Royal Family came to occupy the palace, at the Théâtre de Monsieur, renamed Théâtre de la Rue Feydeau.--B. [378] Louise Rosalie Lefèvre (1755-1821), wife of the actor Dugazon, a brilliant performer of amoureuses or leading ladies at the Théâtre Italien, later Opéra Comique, in the Rue Favart.--T. [379] Jeanne Charlotte Dame d'Herbey (1764-1850), _née_ Schrœder, known as Madame Saint-Aubin, a player of _ingénues'_ parts at the Opéra Comique.--B. [380] Marie Gabrielle Malagrida (1763-1818), known as Carline, and married to Nivelon, the dancer at the Opera. She played _soubrettes_ charmingly at the Théâtre Italien, but her acting was better than her singing: she had a very small voice.--B. [381] Chateaubriand is mistaken here. He is writing of the theatres in 1789 and 1790, whereas Mademoiselle Olivier died in 1787.--B. [382] André Ernest Modeste Gréry (1741-1813), the famous composer.--T. [383] Marguerite Françoise Comtesse de Buffon (1767-1808), _née_ de Bouvier de Cépoy, and wife of Georges Louis Marie Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, son of the great writer. She was the mistress of Philippe Égalité, to whom she bore a son who was killed when fighting in the English army in the Peninsula. The Comte de Buffon was guillotined 10 July 1794. In 1798 his widow married M. Renouard de Bussières, a Strasburg banker.--B. [384] The town-house of Louis Alexandre Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1735-1792).--T. [385] Pauline Marie Michelle Frédérique Ulrique Comtesse de Beaumont (1768-1803), _née_ de Montmorin-Saint-Hérem, wife of the Comte Christophe François de Beaumont.--B. [386] Anne Louise Dame de Shrilly, _née_ Thomas, wife of Antoine Jean François de Megret de Sérilly. Her husband and brother-in-law were guillotined in 1794. Her own death-sentence was commuted owing to the fact that she was pregnant In 1795 she married François de Pange, who died in September 1796.--B. [387] "Arras' candle so sacred and bright, The torch that from far Provence came, Although they afford us no light, Are setting our fair France aflame; We cannot touch them, no doubt. But hope to snuff both of them out." Robespierre was deputy for Arras, Mirabeau for Aix, the old capital of Provence.--T. [388] Pierre de L'Éstoile (1540-1611) Grand-Crier to the French Chancery, and author of a valuable diary of the times of Henry III. and Henry IV.--T.