[38] Jean Georges Charles Frédéric Emmanuel Marquis du Hallay-Coëtquen (1799-1867). He was a captain in the 1st Mounted Grenadiers of the Royal Guard under the Restoration, and a Lord of the Bedchamber. The reference to his valor applies to his reputation as a judge in points of honor and a referee in matters of the duel. His brother, the Comte du Hallay-Coëtquen, served as a page to Louis XVIII. in 1814, and was subsequently a guard to Monsieur and a lieutenant in the 4th Mounted Chasseurs.--B. [39] Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), the distinguished geometrician and French Academician, and President of the Berlin Academy. Maupertuis was a native of Saint-Malo.--T. [40] Nicholas Charles Joseph Trublet (1697-1770), Archdeacon and Canon of Saint-Malo, his native city. He was a writer of little merit, although elected a member of the French Academy in 1761, and was the hero of Voltaire's satire, _Le Pauvre Diable._--T. [41] See the _Itinéraire_ for this anecdote.--T. [42] Louis René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais (1701-1785) was Attorney-General to the Parliament of Brittany. He was accused of instigating the opposition of the States and Parliament of Brittany to certain financial edicts affecting the Breton liberties. After a long confinement in the Citadel of Saint-Malo (1765), he was exiled to Saintes and was not permitted to return to Rennes until ten years later, on the accession of Louis XVI., when he resumed his functions. The affair created a great and prolonged local commotion.--T. [43] Lucile was four, not two years, older than her brother. She was born on the 7th of August 1764.--B. [44] "To you, my mind, I wish to remark, You have many faults which I cannot keep dark."--T. [45] 'Aχὼρ, scurf.-_Author's Note._ [46] "A sparrow-hawk loved a warbler fair. And, it is said, was loved by her."--T. [47] "Is the fable obscure, Trémigon? Derry down!"--T. [48] Their correct name was Loisel de La Villedeneu.--B. [49] Marie Antoine Bénigne de Bedée, Comte de La Bouëtardais (1727-1807), younger brother to Madame de Chateaubriand.--B. [50] The Château de Monchoix is in the parish of Pluduno, now one of the communes of the Canton of Plancoët, Arrondissement of Dinan, and is inhabited by M. du Boishamon, the Comte de Bedée's great-grandson.--B. [51] Marie Angélique Fortunée Cécile Ginguené (1729-1823), daughter of Écuyer François Ginguené and of Dame Thérèse Françoise Jean. She married the Comte de Bedée on the 23rd of November 1756.--B. [52] 1339-1442.--T. [53] I omit eleven lines of quotation and their translation.--T. [54] VIR., Æn. I. 184.--T. [55] St. Aaron the Hermit is honoured on the 22nd of June.--T. [56] At the battle of Vouillé, where Clovis killed Alaric II., King of the Visigoths, with his own hand.--T. [57] George Anson, Lord Anson (1697-1762). He received his promotion and peerage after defeating La Jonguère in 1747.--T.