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
[172] Edward III., King of England (1312-1377), is buried in the Chapel
of St. Edward the Confessor.--T.
[173] Henry VIII., King of England (1491-1547), is buried in St.
George's Chapel, Windsor.--T.
[174] Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, first Viscount St. Albans
(1561-1626), is buried in St. Michael's Church, St. Albans.--T.
[175] Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is buried in the North Aisle of
Westminster Abbey. His monument is by Rysbrack.--T.
[176] John Milton (1608-1674) has a monumental bust by Rysbrack in
Poets' Corner. He is buried in St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate.--T.
[177] Edward V. King of England (1471-1483) and Richard Duke of York
(1474-1483), smothered in the Tower of London by order of their uncle
Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III. Some bones, presumed to
be theirs, were found in the White Tower or Keep and removed to Henry
the Seventh's Chapel at Westminster, where they now lie.--T.
[178] Shakespeare, _Life and Death of King Richard III._, Act IV. sc.
3.--T.
[179] Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), the mystic theosophist. His
doctrines made a certain amount of way in England, and he died in
London.--T.
[180] Charles Louis François de Barentin (1738-1819). He had opened the
States-General, as Keeper of the Seals, in 1789. He emigrated after
Mirabeau had denounced him, on the 15th of July, as an enemy of the
people.--B.
[181] Pietro Bonaventure Trapassi (1698-1782), known as Metastasio, one
of the most graceful and charming of the Italian dramatic poets. He
settled in Vienna in 1730, by invitation of the Emperor Charles VI.,
who gave him the title of _Poeta Cesareo_, and there wrote a multitude
of lyrical tragedies, operas, oratorios, and poems of all kinds.--T.
[182] Mrs. Canning, _née_ Joan Scott, a sister to the Duchess of
Portland, married to Mr. Canning 8 July 1800.--T.
[183] The insurrectionary Royalists in Brittany had adopted this
name from their rallying-cry, which imitated the note of the
_chat-huant_, or screech-owl. Their marauding excursions were somewhat
indiscriminate, and their presence not always welcome even to the loyal
inhabitants.--T.
[184] William Camden (1551-1623), the famous antiquary, first
head-master of Westminster School and later Clarencieux King-at-Arms.
He has been surnamed the Strabo and the Pausanias of England.--T.
[185] Alain René Le Sage (1668-1747), author of the _Aventures de Gil
Blas_, to whom Peltier has already been compared by Chateaubriand. Le
Sage was born at Sarzeau, in Brittany: hence Chateaubriand speaks of
him as his "fellow-countryman."--T.
[186] 22 April 1794.--B.
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