[516] Claude Emmanuel Luillier Chapelle (1626-1686) and François Le Coigneux de Bachaumont (1624-1702), joint authors of the _Voyage_ and other Epicurean pieces.--T. [517] "Ah, how happy one would be In this fair seductive spot If, by Sylvia ne'er forgot, Loving to eternity, With her he could cast his lot!"--T [518] The Chateau Trompette has also since been destroyed.--T. [519] Joseph Spon (1647-1685), a French Protestant antiquarian.--T. [520] "Ah, why do they throw down those columns of the gods, The work of the great Cæsars, a tutelary shrine?"--T. [521] The Duchesse de Berry was imprisoned at Blaye Castle in 1833.--T. [522] In 1797 La Harpe had published his eloquent _Du Fanatisme dans la langue révolutionnaire._--B. [523] This poem appeared in 1814, with the title, _Le Triomphe de la Religion, ou le Roi martyr._--B. [524] "But if they ventured all, 'twas you permitted all: The viler the oppressor, the more infamous the slave."--T. [525] On the 9th of August 1797, La Harpe, then a widower and fifty-seven years of age, married, at the instance of his friend M. Récamier, Mademoiselle de Hatte-Longuerue, a very beautiful girl of twenty-three. Her mother, a penniless widow, concealed from the bridegroom any repugnance that Mademoiselle de Longuerue entertained for the match; but three weeks after the marriage the latter declared this repugnance to be invincible, and asked for a divorce. La Harpe behaved like a gallant gentleman and a Christian: he was unable to lend himself to the divorce, forbidden as it was by the religious law; but he allowed it to take place, and forgave the young lady the outcry and scandal produced by this rupture.--B. [526] JOB IV. 15, 16.--T. [527] DANTE, _Inferno_, XIV. 46.--B. [528] The Abbé Jacques André Émery (1732-1811), author of the _Esprit_ (later _Pensées) de Leibnitz_, the _Christianisme de Bacon_, the _Pensées de Descartes_, and many other works of a religious tendency.--T. [529] Joseph Cardinal Comte Fesch, Archbishop of Lyons (1763-1839), was the half-brother of Madame Bonaparte, Napoleon's mother. He was made Archbishop of Lyons in 1802, a cardinal and Ambassador to Rome in 1803, Grand Almoner of the Empire, a count, and a senator in 1805. Later he refused the Archbishopric of Paris, opposed Napoleon's wishes with regard to Pius VII. in 1810, was disgraced and sent into exile in his diocese, where he remained till 1814. After the Emperor's abdication, he retired to Rome, where he lived for twenty-five years, refusing to surrender his archbishopric till the day of his death, 13 May 1839.--T. [530] In Auvergne.--T. [531] Talleyrand was Foreign Minister from 1796 to 1807.--T. [532] The Abbé Pierre Étienne de Bonnevie (1761-1849), a great friend of M. and Madame de Chateaubriand, and a very witty priest.--B.