[Footnote 339: Madame Récamier, before her marriage, was Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard. Of all her baptismal names, only Julie remained, transformed into Juliette. Her father, Jean Bernard, was a notary at Lyons; in 1784, he was appointed a receiver of finance in Paris.--B.] [Footnote 340: And not thirteen, as the earlier editions have it.--B.] [Footnote 341: Jacques Rose Récamier (1751-1830), the Paris banker. The marriage took place on the 24th of April 1793.--T.] [Footnote 342: Benjamin Constant, _Adolphe: anecdote trouvée dans les papiers d'un inconnu_ (Paris, 1816).--T.] [Footnote 343: At the corner of the Boulevard de la Madeleine and the Rue Louis-le-Grand: the last remnant of the Hôtel de Richelieu, which was almost wholly destroyed during the Revolution. The Pavillon de Hanovre served as a public ball-room.--T.] [Footnote 344: ANDRÉ CHÉNIER, _La Jeune captive_ (Paris, 1795): "I do not wish to die so soon."--T. ] [Footnote 345: This letter is dated, "From my retreat at Corbeil, Saturday, 28 September 1797." La Harpe was proscribed after the 18 Fructidor, and found a shelter at Corbeil, where Madame Récamier paid him one visit.--B.] [Footnote 346: This letter has no further date, but must have been written a few days after the 18 Brumaire.--B.] [Footnote 347: LUCIEN BONAPARTE, _La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina_ (Paris, 1799).] [Footnote 348: Like the Duc de Laval, another admirer of Madame Récamier, Benjamin Constant disliked dates. His work on Madame Récamier does not contain one. At the end of 1798, Madame de Staël was charged by her father to sell the house which he owned in the Rue du Mont-Blanc, now No. 7, Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin. M. Récamier had long had business-relations with M. Necker, whose banker he was, as well as his daughter's; he bought the house. The deed of sale is dated 25 Vendémiaire Year VII. (16 October 1798).--B.] [Footnote 349: Later the Duc de Laval-Montmorency, whom Chateaubriand was to replace in Rome.--B.] [Footnote 350: Madame de Staël's novel of _Delphine_, which appeared in the autumn of 1802.--B.] [Footnote 351: "By the voice of the old thou didst praise beauty's charms."--T.] [Footnote 352: Peace was concluded at Amiens between Great Britain and Ireland on the one side, and France, Spain, and the Batavian Republic on the 27th of March 1802, and lasted till the 18th of May 1803, when Great Britain resumed hostilities.--T.] [Footnote 353: Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), _née_ Spencer, wife of the fifth Duke of Devonshire, and famous for her wit, beauty and social and political influence.--T.] [Footnote 354: Elizabeth Viscountess Melbourne (1753-1818), _née_ Milbanke, married in 1769 to Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne. The rise of her family was due to her brilliant qualities.--T.]