The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
[Footnote 198: Christian Prince, later Christian VIII. King of Denmark
and, _de jure_, of Norway (1786-1848), succeeded to the throne
of Denmark on the death of his cousin, Frederic VI., in 1839. In
1814, when Norway was ceded to Sweden by the Treaty of Kiel, he was
proclaimed King of the former country, with the title of Christian
I., by the Norwegians, who refused to accept the union with Sweden
(May 1814). Unable to maintain his position against the Swedes, he
relinquished the crown (October 1814). His son, Frederic VII., was the
last Danish Sovereign of the House of Oldenburg.--T.]
[Footnote 199: Caroline Amelia Princess, later Queen of
Denmark (1796-1881), daughter of Frederic Christian Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.--T.]
[Footnote 200: Cathérine Henriette Marquise de Verneuil (1583-1633),
_née_ de Balzac d'Entragues, mistress to Henry IV. King of France,
after the death of Gabrielle d'Estrées.--T.]
[Footnote 201: Françoise Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), _née_
d'Aubigné, mistress to Louis XIV., to whom she was married in 1684 or
1685.--T.]
[Footnote 202: Anne Marie Princesse des Ursins (_circa_
1643-1722), _née_ de La Trémoïlle, married first to the Prince de
Talleyrand-Chalais, secondly to the Duca di Bracciano-Orsini, or des
Ursins, for many years the influential favourite of Philip V. King of
Spain and his first Queen.--T.]
[Footnote 203: Dudley Ryder, first Earl of Harrowby (1762-1847),
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1804) and Lord President of the
Council (1812-1827).--T.]
[Footnote 204: Sir Robert Peel, second Baronet (1788-1850),
Under-secretary for the Colonies (1810), Chief Secretary for Ireland
(1812), Home Secretary (1828), First Lord of the Treasury and Prime
Minister (1834-1835 and 1841-1846). Peel died on the 2nd of July 1850,
through a fall from his horse while riding in Hyde Park.--T.]
[Footnote 205: John Fane, tenth Earl of Westmorland (1759-1841),
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (1790-1795), Master of the Horse
(1795-1798), Lord Privy Seal (1798-1827) and a knight of the Garter
(1793).--T.]
[Footnote 206: Henry Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst (1762-1834),
President of the Board of Trade (1807-1812), Secretary for War and the
Colonies (1812-1827), President of the Council (1828-1830) and a knight
of the Garter (1817).--T.]
[Footnote 207: Allen Bathurst, first Earl Bathurst (1684-1775), the
friend of Pope, Swift, Prior, Congreve and Sterne, and grandfather to
the third Earl Bathurst.--T.]
[Footnote 208: STERNE, _Letters from Yorick to Eliza_, Letter III.--T.]
[Footnote 209: Lord Bathurst had two daughters, Lady Louisa Georgiana
Bathurst, who died unmarried in 1874, and Lady Emily Charlotte
Bathurst, who married in 1825 Major-General the Hon. Sir Frederick
Cavendish Ponsonby, K.C.B., and died in 1877.--T.]
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