[Footnote 395: Madame de Staël's youngest son was killed in a duel, in 1813.--B.] [Footnote 396: Madame Récamier left Châlons in June 1812, to go to Lyons to stay with Madame Delphin-Récamier, a sister of her husband's.--B.] [Footnote 397: The Duchesse de Chevreuse, _née_ Norbonne-Pelet, married to the Duc de Chevreuse, son to the Duc de Luynes. Her father-in-law was compelled to accept a senatorship, in 1803, and she obliged, in 1806, to consent to become one of the Empress Joséphine's ladies. Two years later, when the Spanish Royal Family were arrested, the Emperor wished to place the Duchesse de Chevreuse with the captive Queen; the duchess replied that she could be a prisoner, but would never be a gaoler. This proud answer procured her exile, which eventually resulted in her death.--B.] [Footnote 398: In the spring of 1813.--B.] [Footnote 399: Amélie Lenormant, adopted daughter of Madame Récamier, and married to M. Charles Lenormant.--T.] [Footnote 400: Jacques Marquet de Montbreton, Baron de Norvins (1769-1854), author of a now forgotten History of Napoleon (1827).--B.] [Footnote 401: Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), the famous Italian sculptor and artificer in gold and silver. _Cf._ his Autobiography, one of the most famous of Italian classics, circulated in MS. until it was first printed in 1730, translated into German by Goethe and into English by, _inter alios_, the late John Addington Symonds.--T.] [Footnote 402: Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the chief names in Tuscan literature.--T.] [Footnote 403: The Albano fisherman was shot in September 1813; one month later, in October of the same year, Napoleon lost his Empire on the plains of Leipzig.--B.] [Footnote 404: Madame de Beaumont.--_Author's Note._] [Footnote 405: Madame Récamier went to Naples at the beginning of December 1813.--B.] [Footnote 406: Murat, the son of an inn-keeper, had commenced life as a postilion.--T.] [Footnote 407: The Gauls planted a bare sword to mark the centre of the _Mallus_, or council. The _mallus_ survives in our modern word mall, a space bordered with trees.--B.] [Footnote 408: Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples (1782-1839), sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, and married to Joachim Murat in 1800.--T.] [Footnote 409: Publius Virgilius Maro (B.C. 70--B.C. 19), died at Brundisium in Calabria, and was buried at Parthenope (Naples). Virgil's tomb bears an inscription composed by himself in his last moments:-- _Mantua me genuit; Calabri rapuere; tenet nunc_ _Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces_.--T. ] [Footnote 410: Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was born at Sorrento.--T.] [Footnote 411: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (B.C. 65-B.C. 8).--T.] [Footnote 412: Titus Livius (B.C. 50--A.D. 17).--T.] [Footnote 413: Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), the author of the Decameron, lived at Naples from about 1330 to about 1341.--T.] [Footnote 414: Jacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530), the Italian and Latin poet, was born and died at Naples.--T.]