[570] Madame de Beaumont left her books to Chateaubriand in her will, dated Paris, 15 May 1802.--B. [571] The words italicized are in English.--T. [572] Baron Matthieu de Staël, Madame de Staël's second son, who died while still very young.--T. [573] In 1802, for her opposition to Bonaparte.--T. [574] Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Baron von Humboldt (1767-1835), the eminent Prussian diplomatist and philologist, and the friend and correspondent of all the literary eminences of his time.--T. [575] JOHN XI. 44.--T. [576] The _Lettre à M. de Fontanes_, on the Roman Campagna, is dated to January 1804, and first appeared in the Mercure de France, in its issue of March 1804.--B. [577] Rome, December 1803.--B. [578] Cf. ROUSSEAU'S _Confessions._--T. [579] _Gen._ III. 22.--T. [580] Jean Henri Joachim Hostein Vicomte Lainé (1767-1835) displayed considerable independence in the Legislative Body, of which he was a member for the Department of the Gironde. Under the Restoration, he was Minister of the Interior from 1816 to 1818. In 1823, he was made a viscount and a peer of France. He had become a member of the French Academy in 1818, although he had never produced any literary work, properly speaking.--T. [581] _Martyrs_, V.--B. [582] Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the famous sculptor. In 1819 he was sent to Paris as a special ambassador from the Pope.--T. [583] Now the Hôtel de France et de Lorraine, at No. 5, Rue de Beaune.--B. [584] Not the 20th, as the previous editions and the manuscript of the Memoirs have it. This was clearly a slip of the pen. The execution of the Duc d'Enghien took place, not on the 20th, but on the 21st of March 1804.--B. [585] Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769-1834), private secretary to Napoleon I. and Minister of State under Louis XVIII. The Revolution of 1830 and the consequent loss of his fortune caused him to lose his reason, and he died in a madhouse. His Memoirs, written by himself and revised by M. de Villemarest were published in ten volumes, 1829-1831.--T. [586] _Mémoires de M. de Bourrienne_, vol. V. p. 348.--B. [587] Here again the manuscript gives the 20th of March in error.--B. [588] Chateaubriand's letter of resignation ran as follows: "CITIZEN MINISTER,