[Footnote 250: Clovis King of the Franks (465-511), founder of the French Monarchy, embraced Christianity and was baptised and crowned at Rheims at the hands of St. Remy, in 496.--T.] [Footnote 251: Charles VII. King of France (1403-1461), surnamed the Victorious, defeated the English with the aid of Joan of Arc in 1429, and was crowned at Rheims in the same year.--T.] [Footnote 252: Joan of Arc (1410-1431) was present at the coronation of Charles VII. on the 17th of July 1429. She was subsequently captured by the English and burned by them at the stake, on the 30th of May 1431, at Rouen.--T.] [Footnote 253: "I have come from my country No taller than a boot, With-a _mi_, with-a _mi_, With-a my marmot."--T. ] [Footnote 254: "Ah, what will they say from the dust of the grave. The generous spirits of sovereigns brave? What will Pharamond say, Clodion and Clovis, Our Pepins, our Martels, our Charleses and Louis, Who by blood and by peril, a warrior band, Have acquired for their sons such a beautiful land?"--T. ] [Footnote 255: Pepin King of the Franks (_d._ 768), surnamed the Short, founder of the Second or Carlovingian Dynasty.--T.] [Footnote 256: 28 May 1825.--T.] [Footnote 257: Charles Louis Huguet, Marquis de Sémonville (1754-1839), had been sent to Constantinople as Ambassador by the Republic, was arrested by the Austrian Government on his way to his embassy (1793) and was, in 1795, exchanged, together with other members of the Convention, against the daughter of Louis XVI. He declared for Bonaparte and was employed by him; and, in 1814, was appointed Grand Referendary by Louis XVIII. Sémonville retained the functions under Charles X. and also under Louis-Philippe, resigning them in 1834, when he had completed his eightieth year.--T.] [Footnote 258: Hyacinthe de Quélen, Archbishop of Paris (1778-1839), a member of the French Academy, had received his see in 1821. Monseigneur de Quélen was a man of saintly and charitable life, refused to acknowledge the Government of July, and suffered through the furious riot of 1831, when the Archbishop's Palace was wrecked.--T.] [Footnote 259: Chateaubriand was a Knight Commander of the Holy Ghost and a Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour; Villèle a Knight Commander of the Holy Ghost and a Knight Grand Cross of St. Louis.--T.] [Footnote 260: Adalbéron, Archbishop of Rheims (_d._ 988) and Chancellor of France under Lothair and Louis V., officiated at the coronation of Hugh Capet, in 987, and was raised by him to the position of Lord High Chancellor.--T.] [Footnote 261: Jean Du Tillet, Bishop of Meaux (_d._ 1570), author of the _Chronicon de regibus Francorum_ (1545).--T.] BOOK X[262]