[383] The title of this letter was _Lettre à M. de Fontanes sur la deuxième édition de l'ouvrage de Mme. de Staël_ (_De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec la morale_, etc.), and it was signed, l'_Auteur du Génie du Christianisme._ It was printed in the _Mercure_ of 1 Nivoise Year IX. (22 December 1800), and now figures in all the editions of the _Génie du Christianisme._ It is one of Chateaubriand's most eloquent writings.--B. [384] The letter appeared in the _Journal des Débats_ of 10 Germinal Year IX. (31 March 1801).--B. [385] The volume is announced as "just out" in the _Journal des Débats_ of 27 Germinal (17 April). It was a small duodecimo, of XXIV. +210 pages, with the title _Atala, ou les Amours de deux sauvages dans le désert._--B. [386] Marie Marguerite Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630-1676), _née_ Dreux d'Avray, a famous poisoner, who with her lover, Gaudin de Sainte-Croix, poisoned the marquise's father, sister, and two brothers. The crimes were discovered on the death of Sainte-Croix in 1670. The Brinvilliers took to flight, but was captured at Liège, brought back to Paris, and tried and executed in 1676.--T. [387] A waxwork show established in the Palais-Royal and on the Boulevard du Temple in 1770 by a German who called himself Curtius. The establishment on the Boulevard du Temple remained open until the end of the reign of Louis-Philippe. The figures are still sometimes met with at village fairs.--B. [388] Chaillot, which now forms part of Paris, was at that time a village at the gates, to the west, on the road to Versailles.--T. [389] The _Nouvelle Héloïse_, Rousseau's most popular work, was published in 1759--T. [390] Dr. Joseph Marie Joachim Vigaroux (1759-1829), a native of Montpellier, in Provence, and author of some medical works of no special value.--T. [391] Marie Anne Elisa Bacciochi (1774-1820), Bonaparte's eldest sister, married Felix Pascal Prince Bacciochi in 1797. Her husband became Prince of Lucca and Piombino in 1805, Elisa exercising the real power; and in 1808 Napoleon made her Grand-duchess of Tuscany. She was dethroned in 1814, and assumed the title of Countess of Compignano. Prince Bacciochi died in Rome in 1841.--T. [392] Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), Napoleon's second brother, created Prince of Canino in 1804, a prisoner in England from 1810 to 1814. He was twice married to ladies of middle-class family (_vide infra_), by whom he had eleven children.--T. [393] François Joachim Cardinal de Pierres de Bernis (1715-1794), Anacreontic poet and religious controversialist. He had been Madame de Pompadour's lover, and owed his advancement to her. Voltaire called him Babet la Bouquetière, owing to the profusion of flowers of rhetoric which he employed in his verses.--T.