[7] Anne Louis Girodet Trioson, originally Girodet de Roussy (1767-1824), a pupil of David, and not only a fine painter, but also a poet of some merit.--T. [8] Dominique Vivant Baron Denon (1747-1825), Director-General of Museums under the Empire.--T. [9] Chateaubriand's portrait was exhibited in the Salon of 1808.--B. [10] Jean François Boissonade (1774-1857), a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, and a distinguished and indefatigable Hellenist.--T. [11] Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826), the eminent Danish geographer.--T. [12] "Each, his hand in _th' ink-pot_, swears to be revenged."--T. [13] The crown of grass granted to a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place.--T. [14] François Bénoît Hoffmann (1760-1828), author of several comic operas, and a successful writer in the _Journal des Débats._--T. [15] Claude Hippolyte Clausel de Montais (1769-1857) became Bishop of Chartres in 1824. He was the first to engage, in March 1841, in the struggle of the bishops in favour of liberty of instruction, which led to the law of 25 March 1850. Thanks to his writings during this contest, Monseigneur Clausel de Montais is one of the most imposing figures in the nineteenth-century episcopate.--B. [16] Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755). In the _Esprit des lois_ (1748) he treats religion respectfully, but the book was condemned for its deistic tendency.--T. [17] "Tasso wandering from town to town," etc.--T. [18] Caius Valerius Jovius Aurelius Diocletianus, Roman Emperor (245-313), in 303 commenced a persecution of the Christians which lasted for ten years, or eight years after his abdication in 305.--T. [19] _Martyrs_, XXIII.--B. [20] Caius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, Roman Emperor (_d._ 311), adopted son and son-in-law of Diocletian, and associated with the latter in his persecution of the Christians.--T. [21] Armand de Chateaubriand married in Jersey, in 1795, Jeanne Le Brun d'Anneville, who died in the island in 1857.--B. [22] The English attempted a descent on Saint-Cast in 1758 and were defeated by the Duc d'Aiguillon.--T. [23] Pierre François Joachim Henry-Larivière (1761-1838) worked ardently for the restoration of the Monarchy from the date of his proscription by the Convention, of which he was a member, in 1797. Louis XVIII. made him Advocate-General and a councillor of the Court of Appeal. He refused to take the oath to Louis-Philippe on the latter's usurpation in 1830.--B. [24] The original documents of Armand's trial have been sent me by an unknown and generous hand.--_Author's Note._ [25] M. de Goyon-Vaurouault.--B. [26] Jean Louis Laya (1761-1833), author of some poetical plays and of the _Ami des lois_, a stirring protest against the murder of Louis XVI. He was flung into prison, where he remained until the 9 Thermidor. Under the Empire, he became a professor at the Lycée Napoléon and eventually obtained the chair of poetry at the Faculté des Lettres.--T.