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 434: General Adam Adalbert Count von Neipperg (1775-1829) was
sent by Francis II., in July 1814, to escort Marie-Louise. He won the
Empress' favours, accompanied her, in 1816, to Parma, where she made
him Master of her Household and married him morganatically, in 1822,
after the death of Napoleon. Their eldest son, the present Prince von
Montenuovo (Neipperg = Neuberg = Montenuovo), was born on the 9th of
August 1821.--T.]
[Footnote 435: Louis François Auguste Prince de Léon, Cardinal Duc de
Rohan-Chabot (1788-1833), Archbishop of Besançon, was brought up in
England, where his family were living in emigration. He returned to
France, in 1809, with his wife, _née_ de Sérent, and became a Court
chamberlain under Napoleon, and an officer in the Red Musketeers
under Louis XVIII. The Duchesse de Rohan-Chabot was burnt to death
in 1815, and her husband renounced the world, took orders and became
successively Grand-vicar of Paris, Archbishop of Auch, Archbishop of
Besançon (1829) and a cardinal (1830). He left France at the Revolution
of July, but returned to his diocese in 1832, on the outbreak of the
cholera, caught the infection, and died of it.--T.]
[Footnote 436: Madame Lenormant drew the following portrait of M. de
Rohan-Chabot in 1813:
"He was in all the flower of his youth and had, in spite
of a shade of somewhat pronounced fatuousness, the most
charming, the most delicate, I would almost say the most
virginal face imaginable. M. de Chabot's appearance was one
of perfect elegance: his beautiful hair was curled with great
art and taste; he made an extreme study of his dress; he
was pale; his voice was very sweet. His manners were most
distinguished, but haughty. He was not clever, but, although
generally ill-informed, he had the gift of languages; he
grasped quickly and almost musically not the genius of a
language, but its accent."--B. ]
[Footnote 437: Madame Récamier was a native of Lyons on the Rhone.--T.]
[Footnote 438: After the death of the "People's Friend," Murat, by
simply changing one letter, transformed his name into that of Marat.
So proud was he of his invention that, in a letter which he wrote on
the 18th of November 1793, urging the execution of a "Moderantist," he
appended his new signature, "MARAT," no less than four times (MASSON,
_Napoléon et sa famille_, Vol. I. p. 311).--B.]
[Footnote 439: 1797.--T.]
[Footnote 440: 25 July 1799.--T.]
[Footnote 441: 10 November 1799.--T.]
[Footnote 442: 20 January 1800.--B.]
[Footnote 443: 14 June 1800.--T.]
[Footnote 444: 1804.--T.]
[Footnote 445: 13 November 1805.--B.]
[Footnote 446: 2 December 1805.--T.]
[Footnote 447: 14 October 1806.--T.]
[Footnote 448: 8 February 1807.--T.]
[Footnote 449: 14 June 1807.--T.]
[Footnote 450: 15 March 1806.--B.]
[Footnote 451: August 1812.--T.]
[Footnote 452: 16-19 October 1813.--T.]
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