[Footnote 266: Henri Joseph Gisquet (1792-1866) was Prefect of Police from 1831 to 1836, and it was under his administration that Chateaubriand was sent to jail, in 1832, as we shall see later. Gisquet's name was subsequently mixed up in more than one scandal, notably that of the inferior muskets supplied, in 1831, by the firm of Périer, in which Gisquet, as well as Casimir Périer, had been a partner. In 1838, he was mulcted in a fine and dismissed from the Council of State for bribery and corruption, in which his family and his mistress were concerned with him.--B.] [Footnote 267: 21 June 1826 and 18 December 1826 are the dates of Chateaubriand's first and last article in the _Journal des Débats._--B.] [Footnote 268: Article of 28 June 1824.--B.] [Footnote 269: Article of 5 July 1824.--B.] [Footnote 270: Charles Ignace Comte de Peyronnet (1778-1854), Minister of Justice from 1821 to 1828, and Minister of the Interior in 1830.--T.] [Footnote 271: Louis Guillaume Baron Ternaux (1765-1833), a famous manufacturer of Cashmere shawls. He was created a baron in 1819.--T.] [Footnote 272: The first King of modern Greece was Otto, second son of Louis I. King of Bavaria. Otto was elected in 1832, declared of age in 1835, and deposed in 1862. In 1863, the Greeks elected William, second son of Christian IX. King of Denmark, as their sovereign, with the title of George I. King of the Hellenes.--T.] [Footnote 273: Constantine Canaris (1790-1877), the famous Greek admiral and politician, distinguished himself in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1825), and was several times Minister of Marine and President of the Cabinet.--T.] [Footnote 274: The Greeks defeated the Persian naval forces near Mycale in 479 B.C.--T.] [Footnote 275: Chateaubriand had sold the copyright of his Complete Works to Ladvocat for seven hundred thousand francs. The writer gave almost all the money which he received of this sum to the Hospice de Marie-Thérèse, which Madame de Chateaubriand was founding. Ladvocat's failure caused him to lose nearly all that he had reserved to "ensure the peace of his life."--B.] [Footnote 276: Clément François Victor Gabriel Prunelle (1777-1853), a distinguished French physician, settled in Lyons and, in 1830, became mayor of that city.--T.] [Footnote 277: Jeanne Isabelle Pauline Baronne de Montolieu (1751-1832) married, first, M. de Crouzas and, secondly, the Baron de Montolieu. She is the author of _Caroline de Litchfield_ (1786), of the _Robinson suisse_, or _Swiss Robinson Crusoe_(1813), and of a number of translations from the German and English, notably Undine and St. Clair of the Isles.--T.] [Footnote 278: Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of the _History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire._ At Lausanne, he was for a time engaged to marry Mademoiselle Suzanne Curchod, who subsequently married M. Necker and became the mother of Madame de Staël.--T.] [Footnote 279: The Marquise de Custine.--B.]