[240] Charles V., King of France (1337-1380), known as Charles the Wise, son and successor of John II. He successfully resisted the English invasion under Edward III., and recovered a large portion of the country, leaving Bordeaux, Calais, Cherbourg, Bayonne, and several fortresses in the hands of the English at his death.--T. [241] Charles VII., King of France (1403-1461), surnamed Charles the Victorious, with the assistance of Joan of Arc, drove the English out of all France, with the sole exception of Calais.--T. [242] François Athanase Charette de La Contrie (1763-1796) was at the head of the Poitou peasants in the rising of the Vendée and joined forces with Cathelineau. Discords broke out between the Royalist chiefs, and Charette left the army with his division and fought alone, capturing the Republican camp at Saint-Christophe, near Challans, in 1794. In 1796, Hoche utterly destroyed his small force, and Charette himself was taken prisoner and shot at Nantes.--T. [243] Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, Duc d'Enghien (1772-1804), son of the Duc de Bourbon and grandson of the Prince de Condé. He was arrested on neutral territory and shot, after a mock trial, at Vincennes, by order of Napoleon (21 March 1804). Chateaubriand resigned his diplomatic appointment, as will appear, immediately after learning the news of this crime.--T. [244] The Duc de Bourbon, father of the Duc d'Enghien, became "the Last of the Condés" on the latter's death.--T. [245] Chantilly was the seat of the Condé family: the Duc de Bourbon left it on his death (1830) to the Duc d'Aumale, who bequeathed it to the French Nation.--T. [246] The street in which M. du Theil lived.--_Author's Note._ BOOK IX[247] Death of my mother--I return to religion--The _Génie du Christianisme_--Letter from the Chevalier de Panat--My uncle, M. de Bedée: his eldest daughter--English literature--Decline of the old school--Historians--Poets--Publicists--Shakespeare--Old novels--New novels--Richardson--Sir Walter Scott--New poetry--Beattie--Lord Byron--England from Richmond to Greenwich--A trip with Peltier--Blenheim--Stowe--Hampton Court--Oxford--Eton College--Private manners--Political manners--Fox--Pitt--Burke--George III.--Return of the emigrants to France--The Prussian Minister gives me a false passport in the name of La Sagne, a resident of Neuchâtel in Switzerland--Death of Lord Londonderry--End of my career as a soldier and traveller--I land at Calais. Alloquar? audiero nunquam tua facta loquentem? Nunquam ego te, vita frater amabilior, Aspiciam posthac? At certe semper amabo[248].