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 355: Emily Mary Marchioness of Salisbury (1751-1835),
daughter of Wills Hill, first Marquess of Downshire, and married to
James Cecil, seventh Earl, later first Marquess of Salisbury, in 1773.
Lady Salisbury perished in the fire that burnt down the west wing of
Hatfield House in November 1835.--T.]
[Footnote 356: Antoine Philippe Duc de Montpensier (1775-1807) died in
England of a malady of the chest.--T.]
[Footnote 357: Louis Comte de Beaujolais (1779-1808) died in Malta.--T.]
[Footnote 358: George IV. was appointed Regent of the United Kingdom
in 1811, and came to the throne on the 29th of January 1820;
Louis-Philippe usurped the throne of France on the 9th of August
1830.--T.]
[Footnote 359: Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas, later
(1819) tenth Duke of Hamilton and seventh of Brandon (_d._ 1852), had
been Ambassador to St. Petersburg and was, at this time (1802), M.P.
for Lanarkshire.--T.]
[Footnote 360: Charles X. came to Holyrood in 1830. The Dukes of
Hamilton are Hereditary Keepers of Holyrood Palace.--T.]
[Footnote 361: Charlotte Duchess of Somerset, _née_ Douglas-Hamilton,
married, in 1800, to the eleventh Duke of Somerset.--T.]
[Footnote 362: Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1813), the famous Italian
engraver, lived in London from 1764 to 1802, when he removed to Lisbon
to take charge of the National Academy in that capital.--T.]
[Footnote 363: William I. was proclaimed first King of the Netherlands
on the 16th of March 1815. He abdicated on the 7th of October 1840,
one year after the above lines were written and three years before his
death.--T.]
[Footnote 364: Bernadotte became King of Sweden, as Charles XIV., in
1818.--T.]
[Footnote 365: September 1803.--B.]
[Footnote 366: Andoche Junot, Maréchal Duc d'Abrantès (1771-1813).--T.]
[Footnote 367: MADAME DE STAËL, _Dix années d'exil_, Part I., chap.
XI.--B.]
[Footnote 368: Elzéar Louis Marie Comte de Sabran (1774-1846), a firm
friend of Madame de Staël's, and his mother, who married the Chevalier
de Boufflers as her second husband.--T.]
[Footnote 369: Louis Prince, later Louis I. King of Bavaria (1786-1868)
succeeded his father, Maximilian I., in 1825, and abdicated in
1848.--T.]
[Footnote 370: Prince Charles Frederic Augustus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
(1785-1837).--T.]
[Footnote 371: Eugène de Beauharnais, later Duc de Leuchtenberg and
Prince d'Eichstädt (1781-1824), son of Joséphine, by her first husband,
and appointed Viceroy of Italy in 1805.--T.]
[Footnote 372: Madame Moreau, _née_ Hulot, was a Creole and a friend of
Joséphine de Beauharnais. After the death of Moreau, Alexander I. gave
her a donation of 500,000 roubles and a pension of 30,000 roubles per
annum.--T.]
[Footnote 373: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), author of the
_Physiologie du goût_, had been appointed a judge of the Court of
Appeal by the Consulate in 1800.--B.]
[Footnote 374: Pichegru committed suicide, or was assassinated, in
prison, on the 5th of April 1804.--T.]
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