[450] The Château de Champlâtreux, in the commune of Épinay-Champlâtreux, canton of Luzarches, Department of Seine-et-Oise, was the old seat of the Molé family. It belongs now to M. le Duc de Noailles. The Comte Molé died there, 25 November 1855.--B. [451] Édouard François Matthieu Molé de Champlâtreux (_d._ 1794), a President in the Parliament of Paris, guillotined 20 April 1794.--B. [452] The domain, now in the Department of Eure-et-Loir, presented to Madame de Maintenon by Louis XIV.--T. [453] Louise Éléonore Mélanie Marquise de Custine (1770-1826), _née_ de Sabran, married in 1787 to Amand Louis Philippe François de Custine, guillotined 4 January 1794.--B. [454] Margaret Queen of France (1219-1295), daughter of Raymond Berengarius IV. Count of Provence, and married in 1234 to King Louis IX.: a virtuous queen in every way worthy of her spouse.--T. [455] The Château de Fervacques is near Lisieux in Calvados. Madame de Custine bought it of the Duc de Montmorency-Laval and his sister the Duchesse de Luynes. It is now the property of M. le Comte de Montgomery.--T. [456] Christina Queen of Sweden (1626-1689) spent some years in France after her abdication in 1654.--T. [457] Astolphe Louis Léonor Marquis de Custine (1793-1857), author of an excellent book on La Russie en 1839, in 4 volumes (1843), and many other remarkable works that obtained a well-deserved success.--B. [458] Madame de Custine had been imprisoned at the Carmelites and had escaped execution thanks only to the Revolution of 9 Thermidor.--T. [459] "The lady of Fervacques Deserves a brisk attack."--T. [460] Afterwards Madame de Bérenger.--B. [461] Louise Julie Talma (_d._ 1805), _née_ Carreau, married Talma on the 19th of April 1791. They were divorced on the 6th of February 1801 by mutual consent. Talma married next year (16 June 1802) Charlotte Vanhove, the divorced wife of Louis Sébastien Olympe Petit, from whom he was also separated shortly afterwards on the same terms.--B. [462] Stanislas Marie Adélaïde Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (1747-1792), a Monarchical member of the Constituent Assembly, butchered by the populace on the 10th of August 1792.--T. [463] Louis Justin Marie Marquis de Talaru (1769-1850), for some time French Ambassador in Madrid under the Restoration. He was created a peer of France on the same day as Chateaubriand (17 August 1815).--B. [464] Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803), known as the Unknown Philosopher, the exponent of "pure spiritualism." His principal works are _Des Erreurs et de la vérité_ (1775), the _Homme de désir_ (1790), and the _Ministère de l'Homme-Esprit_ (1802).--T. [465] Jean Jacques Comte Lenoir-Laroche (1749-1825) held office for a few days in 1797, was a Conservative member of the Senate (1799-1814), was made a count by Napoleon, and a peer of France by Louis XVIII. (4 June 1814). On the 31st of August 1817, this dignity was declared hereditary in his family.--B.