[Footnote 465: The portraits consisted of an engraved cornelian seal with his wife's likeness and a miniature of the features of his four children.--T.] [Footnote 466: Pius VII. made his solemn entry into Rome on the 25th of May 1814.--B.] [Footnote 467: This description occurs in that portion of the Memoirs, devoted to the life of Napoleon, which has been omitted.--T.] [Footnote 468: Alexis Louis Joseph Comte de Noailles (1783-1835) had been imprisoned, in 1809, for spreading Pius VII.'s Bull of Excommunication against the authors and accomplices of the usurpation of the Papal States. In May 1814, the Comte de Noailles was Royal Commissary in Lyons.--B.] [Footnote 469: Madame Charles Lenormant (_vide supra_ p. 180, n. 2).--T.] [Footnote 470: She arrived in Paris on the 1st of June 1814.--B.] [Footnote 471: _L'Esprit de conquête et d'usurpation dans ses rapports avec la civilisation européenne_ was published, early in 1814, in Germany, where Benjamin Constant then was; he returned to France with the Bourbons.--B.] [Footnote 472: The appointment is announced in the _Journal de l'Empire_ of the 6th of April 1815.--B.] [Footnote 473: In English in the original.--T.] [Footnote 474: 14 July 1817.--T.] [Footnote 475: In 1819, Madame Récamier retired to the Abbaye-aux-Bois, where she occupied a small and incommodious apartment on the third storey, with a stone flooring and a stair-case of the most awkward description, which did not prevent its being climbed daily by the greatest ladies of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and by all the leading lights of Paris.--B.] [Footnote 476: He was implicated in the Bories Affair.--_Author's Note._ Charles Coudert, a quarter-master of cavalry, was not implicated in the Bories Affair, but in a military conspiracy against the Government which broke out, in December 1821, at Saumur. Of the eleven accused, eight were acquitted, and Coudert and two others condemned to death, in February 1822. Madame Récamier employed her credit on his behalf and, on the 18th of April, Coudert's sentence was commuted to one of five years' imprisonment.--B.] [Footnote 477: Eugène Coudert, Charles Coudert's elder brother.--B.] [Footnote 478: Eugénie Bernardine Désirée Clary, later Désirée Queen of Sweden (1781-1860), _née_ Clary, married Bernadotte in 1798, after having been engaged to Napoleon Bonaparte.--T.] [Footnote 479: Agnès Dame de Bourbon, second daughter of Humbert II. Count of Savoy, and married to Archambad VII. Sire de Bourbon, who died in 1171.--T.] [Footnote 480: Adelaide of Savoy, Queen of France (_d._ 1154), daughter of Humbert II., not of Humbert the White-handed, married, in 1114, to Louis the Fat, King of France, and, four years after his death, which occurred in 1137, to the Constable de Montmorency.--T.] [Footnote 481: Humbert I., first Count of Savoy (_circa_ 985--_circa_ 1048), surnamed the White-handed.--T.] [Footnote 482: Louis VI. King of France (1078-1137), surnamed the Fat.--T.]