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 483: Mathieu I. Seigneur de Montmorency (_d._ 1160),
appointed Constable of France in 1130. He married, first, Aline,
illegitimate daughter of Henry I. King of England, and, secondly, Queen
Adelaide of France.--T.]
[Footnote 484: Julia Queen of Naples, later of Spain (1777-1845), was
Marie Julie Clary, sister to Madame Bernadette, and was married to
Joseph Bonaparte in 1794.--T.]
[Footnote 485: CHATEAUBRIAND, _Moïse_, Act III. sc. IV.-B.
"Where the great are concerned, I am nowise suspect:
Their misfortunes alone win from me my respect.
I hate this King Pharaoh, while glory's his own;
Let him fall: on the instant I honour his crown:
By reason of grief he is king in my eyes;
I bow down before tears as great magistracies;
Misfortune's sad courtier, etc."--T.
]
[Footnote 486: The ex-Queen of Spain was then living in Brussels under
the name of Comtesse de Survilliers.--T.]
[Footnote 487: Lieutenant-General Robert Baron Fagel (1771-1856),
Netherlands Envoy to the several Courts of France from 1814 to
1854.--T.]
[Footnote 488: DUCHESSE D'ABRANTÈS, _Histoire des Salons de Paris.
Tableaux et portraits du grande monde, sous Louis XVI., le Directoire,
le Consulat et l'Empire, la Restauration et le règne de Louis-Philippe
Ier,_ Vol. VII.--B.]
[Footnote 489: Ex-Lieutenant (not Captain) Roger had taken part with
Caron in the Colmar plot. He was condemned to death on the 23rd of
February 1823. The penalty was commuted to one of twenty years' penal
servitude. He was sent to the convict prison at Toulon and obtained a
full pardon at the end of two years.--B.]
[Footnote 490: Lieutenant-Colonel Augustin Joseph Caron (1774-1822),
the ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to death, in September 1822,
and executed before the Court of Cassation had rejected his appeal.--T.]
[Footnote 491: Gustavus II. Adolphus King of Sweden (1594-1632), the
great antagonist of Austria, at that time France's foremost rival.--T.]
[Footnote 492: _Purg._, Canto VIII., 6.--T.]
[Footnote 493: Daniel Steibelt (1765-1823), a Prussian pianist and
composer, came to Paris in 1790. His _Romeo and Juliet_ was performed
at the Théâtre de l'Opera-Comique National on the 10th of September
1793, in the midst of the Terror.--B.]
APPENDIX TO BOOK XI
(By M. EDMOND BIRÉ)
THE CONGRESS OF VERONA AND THE SPANISH WAR
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