The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
[162] Peltier was paid his salary as Haitian Minister by shipments
of sugar and coffee, the sale of which brought him in some eight
thousand pounds a year. One of his epigrams against Louis XVIII., who
received him coldly after the Restoration, happening to be applicable
to Christophe, the supplies were stopped together with his ministerial
powers, and he died a poor man.--B.
[163] François Dominique Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier (1755-1838). He
came to London after going through the campaign of the Princes, and
became editor, not of the _Courrier français_, but of the _Courrier de
Londres_, which had been founded by the Abbé de Calonne.--B.
[164] Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) was buried in Westminster, but dug up
at the Restoration, hanged at Tyburn, and buried under the gallows.--T.
[165] The remains of King Charles I. are buried in St. George's Chapel,
Windsor.--T.
[166] Robert, Count of Artois ( 1287-1343), endeavoured to recover
from his brother-in-law, Philip VI. of France, the county of Artois,
which had been taken from him in a former reign. He was sentenced to
perpetual banishment, but had before this fled from the kingdom and
began plotting against the King of France. Philip pursued him from
county to county, causing the various princes to refuse him refuge,
until he fled to England, where he was welcomed by Edward III. (1333).
In 1336 Philip proclaimed Robert of Artois a traitor and an enemy of
France, and forbade all his vassals of whatever rank, in or out of
France, to receive or aid him on penalty of confiscation of their
fiefs. Edward accepted the insult as addressed to himself, prepared for
war, proclaimed himself King of France in 1337, and invaded France in
1339, thus commencing the Hundred Years' War.--T.
[167] Florio's MONTAIGNE, Booke II. Chap. xii.: _An Apologie of Raymond
Sebond._--T.
[168] William Pitt, first Earl of Chatham (1708-1778). His monument by
Bacon stands in the North Transept near the entrance to the chapels
which lead to the Chapel of Henry VII. and the Knights of the Bath.--T.
[169] Charles V., Emperor of Germany (1500-1558), abdicated in 1556
and retired to the neighbourhood of the Monastery of San Yuste in
Estremadura. One month before his death (which occurred on the 21st
of September 1558) he was seized with a fancy for going through the
ceremonies of his own funeral, and, attired in a monk's dress, he
joined in the chants of the community around an empty coffin placed in
the convent chapel.--T.
[170] Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554) was buried after her execution,
together with her husband, Lord Guildford Dudley, in the Chapel of St.
Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London.--T.
[171] Catharine, not Alice, Countess of Salisbury (_d._ _circa_ 1350),
_née_ Grandison, wife of William de Montacute, first Earl of Salisbury,
and heroine of the spurious Garter story, was buried in her husband's
foundation at Bisham.--T.
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