[Footnote 375: The execution of Georges Cadoudal and his eleven companions took place on the 25th of July 1804, at eleven o'clock in the morning, on the Place de Grève. The evening before, the gaol-keeper at Bicêtre had entered Cadoudal's cell and brought him a petition for mercy ready for signature. Georges cast a glance at the paper, and saw that it was addressed "To His Majesty the Emperor." He refused to see any more. Turning to his companions: "Comrades," he said, "let us say our prayers." On the morning of the execution, Captain Laborde said to someone who asked him for news of the criminal: "He has slept more peacefully than I." On arriving at the Place de Grève, the Abbé de Keravenant made him say the Angelic Salutation: "Hail Mary, full of grace... Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now..." Here Georges stopped. "Continue," said the priest,"... and at the hour of our death." "To what purpose?" asked Georges. "Is not now the hour of our death?" Cadoudal insisted upon dying first, lest his comrades should imagine that he could survive them.--B.] [Footnote 376: The Monk of Saint-Gall (_circa_ 884) is the anonymous author of the half-genuine, half-fabulous _Gestes de Charlemagne._--T.] [Footnote 377: M. Necker died at Coppet on the 9th of April 1804.--B.] [Footnote 378: M. Récamier's ruin happened two years after the death of M. Necker, in the autumn of 1806. It was produced chiefly through the political and financial condition of Spain, by which M. Récamier's banking-house was seriously embarrassed. He asked the Bank of France for a loan of a million francs, which would have saved him; the loan was refused, and the crash came. Madame Récamier sold her jewellery to the last piece; the plate was sold; the house in the Rue du Mont-Blanc was bought by M. Mosselmann. So great was the confidence and esteem of the creditors for M. Récamier that they entrusted him with the liquidation of his own estate.--B.] [Footnote 379: 17 November 1806.--B.] [Footnote 380: Madame Récamier lost her mother on the 20th January of 1807. Her first six months of mourning were spent in profound seclusion; in the middle of the summer of 1807, she consented, at Madame de Staël's entreaties, to go to Coppet.--B.] [Footnote 381: Prince Augustus was taken prisoner, not at Eylau, but at the Battle of Saalfeld (10 October 1806). The young Prince was only twenty-four years of age; he was five years younger than Madame Récamier.--B.] [Footnote 382: MADAME DE GENLIS**, _Mademoiselle de Clermont_ (Paris, 1802).--T.] [Footnote 383: _Athénaïs, ou le Château de Coppet en 1807_ was published in 1832, two years after the Comtesse de Genlis' death. It was written when she was over eighty years of age.--T.] [Footnote 384: In the autumn of 1807.--B.] [Footnote 385: And not 1812, as the previous editions have it.--B.] [Footnote 386: Now the property of the Prince Amédée de Broglie.--B.]