[389] The _Actes des Apôtres_ was published from November 1789 to October 1791; 311 numbers were issued in all. Its principal contributors were Peltier, Rivarol, Champcenetz, Mirabeau the younger, the Marquis de Bonnay, François Suleau, Montlosier, Bergasse, &c.--B. [390] The _Journal de la Ville et des Provinces, ou, le Modérateur_, edited by M. de Fontanes, first appeared 1 October 1789.--B. [391] Jacques Mallet-Dupan (1749-1800), political editor of the _Mercure de France._ He left France in 1792, returned first to his native city, Geneva, and then settled in London, where he founded the Mercure britannique (1799).--T. [392] The Chevalier de Champcenetz (1759-1794), one of the wittiest Royalist partisans under the Revolution; arrested and murdered in 1794.--T. [393] Antoine Comte de Rivarol (1753-1801), a brilliant and caustic wit.--T. [394] The wife of Le Jay the bookseller, Mirabeau's publisher.--B. [395] Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803), author of _Les Liaisons dangereuses_, editor of the _Journal des amis de la Constitution_, and secretary to the Duc d'Orléans. He served as an artillery-general in the Army of Italy.--T. [396] Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de Lauzun (1747-1793), son of the Duc de Biron, to whose title he succeeded in 1788. He fought on the American side in the War of Independence, and served as a general in the republican armies until his arrest and execution, 31 December 1793.--T. [397] The two brothers Arthur Comte de Dillon and Theobald de Dillon, both fought in the republican campaigns. Arthur was executed in 1794, Theobald killed in 1792 by his soldiers, who believed that he was betraying them.--T. [398] Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), Bishop of Autun, created Prince de Bénévent by Bonaparte m 1806, Duc de Talleyrand and Duc de Dino by Louis XVIII. in 1817.--T. [399] Pierre Victor Baron de Besenval (1722-1791), whose Memoirs were published in 1805-1807 by the Vicomte de Ségur, but were disowned by the baron's family.--T. [400] Jeanne Vaubernier, Comtesse Du Barry (1744-1794), the last mistress of Louis XV., was guillotined 30 June 1794, having ventured to return to France from England in order to rescue her personal belongings.--T. [401] _Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Revolution française, II. 16: De la Federation du 14 juillet 1790._--B. [402] Joseph Dominique Baron Louis (1755-1837). He had taken minor orders and served as deacon at Talleyrand's Mass in the Champ de Mars. He was several times Minister of Finance under the Restoration and under Louis-Philippe.--T. [403] 4 September 1790.--B. [404] 20 February 1791.--B. [405] Charles Michel Marquis de Villette (1736-1793). At the trial of Louis XVI., he voted for imprisonment and for banishment at the conclusion of the war.--B. [406] I omit a poetical quotation from Parny.--T.