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
[503] Paule Baronne de Fontenille (1518-1610), _née_ de Viguier,
nicknamed Fair Paule by King Francis I., who saw her as a child. She
married first the Sire de Bayganuet, and later Philippe de Laroche,
Baron de Fontenille. Her beauty, which she retained until extreme old
age, was so intense that her resolution to stay at home, in order to
save herself from being pestered with the admiration of the people, was
checkmated by a resolution of the _Capitouls_ or municipal officers of
Toulouse, who ordered her to show herself in public, with uncovered
features, two days in the week. _La Belle Paule_ was as virtuous as she
was beautiful.--T.
[504] Henri II. Maréchal Duc de Montmorency (1595-1632), revolted
against Louis XIII., was defeated and taken prisoner at Castelnaudary,
and tried and beheaded at Toulouse.--T.
[505] Claude Fauriel (1772-1844), a capable literary critic and
considerable linguist. He translated and published in 1837 the
_Histoire de la croisade contre les hérétiques albigeois, écrits en
vers provençaux par un poète contemporain_, from which the above
extract is taken.--T.
[506] Simon Baron, later Comte, de Montfort (_d._ 1218), known as
the Machabee of his century, the leader of the crusade against the
Albigenses, of whom he put some 60,000 or more to the sword. Simon de
Montfort was killed at Toulouse, 25 June 1218.--T.
[507] Jacques de Cujas (1522-1590), the famous jurist.--T.
[508] Margaret of France, Duchesse de Berry, afterwards Duchess of
Savoy (1523-1574), married in 1559 to Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of
Savoy. Her subjects named her the Mother of the Peoples.--T.
[509] Margaret of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1552-1615), married in 1572
to the Prince of Béarn, afterwards Henry IV., and III. King of France
and Navarre.--T.
[510] Gui du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (1529-1584), represented France
at the Council of Trent and accompanied Henry III. to Poland. His
_Quatrains moraux_ have been universally translated, and he also
published various political writings.--T.
[511] Florio's MONTAIGNE, the Third Booke, chap. IX.: _Of Vanitie._--T.
[512] Raymond IV. Count of Toulouse, Duke of Bordeaux, and Marquis of
Provence (_circa_ 1042-1105), one of the leaders of the First Crusade
(1096), and one of the first to storm the walls of Jerusalem.--T.
[513] Louis Gabriel Léonce Guilhaud de Lavergne (1809-1880), a member
of the Right in the Chamber of Deputies, became "reconciled" to the
Republic, and was ultimately elected a Life Senator in 1875.--B.
[514] Mademoiselle Honorine Gasc, the owner of an admirable voice,
married Herr Ol de Kop, Danish Consul at Bordeaux and Paris.--B.
[515] Clémence Isaure, a wealthy lady of Toulouse, who restored the
Floral Games at Toulouse in 1490, and left large sums of money to the
town to provide for the expenses of annual competitions in the art of
poetry.--T.
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