[Footnote 172: A famous political and allegorical satire of the reign of Henry III., attributed to Thomas Artus, Sire d'Embly. It was published without date of place or time, but was reprinted in the fourth volume of the _Journal de Henri III._ (1744).--T.] [Footnote 173: Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Comte d'Orsay (1801-1852), long a leader of society in London and Paris, and noted for his intimacy with the Countess of Blessington. In 1827, he married Lady Harriet Gardiner, daughter of Lord Blessington by his first wife. She soon left him, and Lady Blessington, who was then a widow, took up her abode with him at Gore House. D'Orsay became bankrupt in 1849 and, to escape arrest, fled, on the 1st of April, to Paris, where Lady Blessington followed him in a fortnight. She died, suddenly, about a month after.--T.] [Footnote 174: Anna Duchesse de Guiche (1803-1882), _née_ de Grimaud d'Orsay.--T.] [Footnote 175: Dorothea Christophorowna Countess, later Princess de Lieven (1785-1855), _née_ von Blenkendorf. She was much sought after by the statesmen of her time: Castlereagh, Canning, Metternich were her friends; Lord Grey wrote to her every morning from his bed. She has been said to have had an intrigue with George IV. In Paris, where she settled after her husband's death, she became the Egeria of M. Guizot.--B.] [Footnote 176: Éléonore Marquise d'Osmond, _née_ Dillon, wife of René Eustache Marquis d'Osmond, who was French Ambassador to London from 1814 to 1819.--T.] [Footnote 177: General Christopher Andreiëvitch Count, later Prince de Lieven (_d._ 1839), Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin (1810-1812), and Ambassador to London (1812-1834), Governor to the Tsarevitch, later Tsar Alexander II. (1834-1839).--T.] [Footnote 178: Madame de Lieven migrated to Paris after the death of her husband in 1839.--T.] [Footnote 179: Guizot made it a rule of his life to call daily on Madame de Lieven in Paris.--B.] [Footnote 180: Edward Adolphus Seymour, eleventh Duke of Somerset (1775-1855).--T.] [Footnote 181: Louis-Philippe appointed Marshal Soult, on the 23rd of April 1838, Ambassador Extraordinary to England for the coronation of Queen Victoria. The population of London accorded the marshal an enthusiastic reception, and he was lionized wherever he went. The coronation of Victoria took place on the 20th of June 1838.--B.] [Footnote 182: Antipater (_d._ 319 B.C.), a Macedonian general, acted as Viceroy of Macedon and Greece during Alexander's absence, governed for some time after Alexander's death, defeated the Athenians at Cranon, and had just been appointed regent during the minority of Alexander's children when he himself died.--T.] [Footnote 183: Antigonus (_circa_ 382 B.C.--301 B.C.), surnamed Cyclops, another of Alexander's captains, who shared the latter's empire after his death, and for six years called himself King of Asia, until overthrown and slain at the Battle of Ipsus.--T.]