[103] Julius Majorianus, known as the Emperor Majorian (_d._ 461) defeated Theodoric II., King of the Visigoths, in Gaul, and was about to attack Genseric, King of the Vandals, in Africa, when he was deposed and put to death by Ricimer, who had raised him to power.--T. [104] SIDONIUS APOLLINARIS.--_Author's Note._ [105] John II., King of France (1319-1364), known as John the Good, taken prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by Edward the Black Prince (1356). Peace was concluded in 1360, and John returned to France, leaving his son as a hostage. The latter escaped, and King John voluntarily returned to London and surrendered, saying that "if good faith was banished from the earth, it should find an asylum in the hearts of kings." He died shortly after his arrival in London (8 April 1364).--T. [106] François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Comte de Clerfayt (1733-1798), created, in 1795, a field-marshal in the Austrian Army. He was a native of Brussels, at that time the capital of the Austrian Netherlands, and was a very fine general. Not the least of his feats was his masterly retreat after the Battle of Jemmapes (6 November 1792). In 1795, he defeated three French army corps in succession, and relieved Mayence, which was besieged by one of them.--T. [107] François Prudent Malo Ferron de La Sigonnière (1768-1815).--B. [108] Cf. _Odyssey_, IV. 606.--T. [109] AUSONIUS, _Eidyllia_, CCCXXXIV. 21, _Ausonii Mosella._--T. [110] Now known as the cemetery of Père Lachaise.--T. [111] The Abbé André Morellet (1727-1819), a Member of the Academy, and at one time a leading member of Madame Geoffrin's circle. His attacks on Chateaubriand are mentioned later, when Chateaubriand speaks of the publication of _Atala._--T. [112] Field-Marshal Franz Baron von Mercy (_d._ 1645), one of the great generals of the seventeenth century. He took service under the Elector of Bavaria, and distinguished himself in the German wars against France. In 1645 he defeated Turenne at Mariendal, but was himself beaten by Condé in the plains of Nördlingen (7 August 1645), and received a wound of which he died the next day.--T. [113] Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), the famous French engineer. Longwy was one of the many fortifications constructed by Vauban along the German frontier. He was created a marshal in 1703 by Louis XIV., who in 1693 had founded the order of St. Louis at Vauban's instance.--T. [114] Honoré Jean Riouffe (1764-1813), created a baron of the Empire in 1810; author of the _Mémoires d'un détenu, pour servir à l'histoire de la tyrannie de Robespierre_, from which the above quotation is taken.--B. [115] St. Gregory of Tours (_circa_ 540--_circa_ 594), Bishop of Tours, and author of a _History of the Franks_ extending from 417 to 591.--T. [116] Theodebert I., King of Metz or Austrasia (_d._ 548).--T.