[415] Chateaubriand and Madame de Beaumont took up their abode at Savigny on the 22nd of May 1801.--B. [416] Antoine Athanase Roux de Laborie (1769-1840), a protégé of Talleyrand's, who attained to some distinction as a politician. He had been compromised in a Royalist conspiracy with the two brothers Bertin, with whom he afterwards founded the _Journal des Débats._--T. [417] Catherine Joséphine Rafin (1777-1835), known as Mademoiselle Duchesnois, made her first appearance in 1802 as Phèdre. She was an ugly woman, but a fine actress. She continued to play until 1830.--T. [418] Paul Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1674); the allusion being to Rembrandt's famous distribution of light and shade.--T. [419] "Ne'er did Iphigenia in Aulis laid dead Cause so many tears in all Greece to be shed As, in the fine spectacle shown us to-day, We have wept at the bidding of our Champmeslé." Marie Desmare (1644-1698), known as Mademoiselle Champmeslé, made her first appearance in 1669, and created the title-rôle in Racine's _Iphigénie_ in 1674, under the poet's directions.--T. [420] Anne Pierre Adrien Prince de Montmorency, later Duc de Laval (1767-1837), French Ambassador successively in Madrid (1814), Rome (1821), Vienna (1828), and London (1829). He became a member of the Chamber of Peers in 1820, in succession to his father, deceased, and resigned his peerage, together with his diplomatic functions, in 1830.--B. [421] Étienne Antoine de Boulogne (1747-1825) was made Bishop of Troyes by Napoleon in 1808. In 1811, Bonaparte imprisoned him at Vincennes, until 1814, for protesting against the arrest of Pope Pius VII. He resumed his see under the Restoration, became Archbishop of Vienne in 1817, and was raised to the peerage in 1822.--T. [422] Charles Pineau Duclos (1704-1772), admitted to the French Academy in 1747, and appointed its perpetual secretary in 1755, was author of the _Considérations sur le Mœurs_, etc., and took the leading part in the editing of the Dictionary.--T. [423] Charles François Dupuis (1742-1809), member of the Institute and of the Academy of Inscriptions, and author of the _Origine de tous les cultes, ou la Religion universelle._--T. [424] Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771), one of the leaders of the French philosophy of the eighteenth century, and author of the book _De l'Esprit_ (1758), condemned by the Sorbonne, the Pope, and the Parliament of Paris, and burned by the public hangman in 1759.--T. [425] Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), perpetual secretary of the Academy of Science, and a principal contributor to the Encyclopædia. The best known of his voluminous works is the _Esquisse des progrès de l'esprit humain._ He was arrested as a Girondin, and poisoned himself in prison (28 March 1794).--T.