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 620: François Maximilien Misson (_d._ 1722), another
Protestant writer, took refuge in England, in 1685, and there had
charge of the education of a young nobleman with whom he had been
travelling in Germany and Italy. His _Nouveau voyage en Italie_
(1691-1698) is on the _Index._ A later edition (1722) is enriched with
notes by Addison.--T.]
[Footnote 621: Jean Dumont, Baron von Carlskron (_circa_ 1660-1726), a
distinguished publicist, travelled all over Europe. The work from which
the following quotation is taken is his _Voyages en France, en Italie,
en Allemagne, à Malte et en Turquie_ (1699). The Emperor of Germany
made him his historiographer and a baron.--T.]
[Footnote 622: Joseph Addison (1672-1719) prepared himself for the
diplomatic service by travel and study on the Continent (1699-1703).
His works included a _Letter from Italy_ in verse, written as he was
crossing the Alps in 1701 and published in 1703, and _Remarks on
several Parts of Italy_ (1705). His tragedy of _Cato_ was also written
in Italy.--T.]
[Footnote 623: Now in the Louvre in Paris.--T.]
[Footnote 624: Now in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.--T.]
[Footnote 625: Now in the Vatican.--T.]
[Footnote 626: Now in the Atrio Quadrato, leading out of the Belvedere
Gallery.--T.]
[Footnote 627: _Anglicè_ in the original.--T.]
[Footnote 628: Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711), the famous French
poet and academician (1684).--T.]
[Footnote 629: Jean Baptiste Labat (1663-1738), a Dominican friar, was
sent by his Order to Martinique, in 1693, and remained stationed in the
Antilles till 1705. He visited Rome in 1706. His many works include a
_Voyage en Espagne et en Italie_ (1730).--T.]
[Footnote 630: The coast of Senegambia was visited, in the fourteenth
century, by Dieppe and Rouen merchants, who established markets
there.--T.]
[Footnote 631: PROP. I. ii.; _Ad Cynthiam_, I.--T.]
[Footnote 632: CHATEAUBRIAND, _Martyrs_, Book X.--T.]
[Footnote 633: Pauline Borghese died on the 9th of June 1825.--T.]
[Footnote 634: Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart, Prince of
Wales, later Charles III., _de jure_ King of England (1720-1788), known
as the Young Pretender or the Young Chevalier.--T.]
[Footnote 635: Henry Benedict Maria Clement Cardinal Duke of York,
later Henry IX., _de jure_ King of England (1725-1807), created a
cardinal in 1747.--T.]
[Footnote 636: 1734---T.]
[Footnote 637: Prince Charles returned to Rome after the failure of the
rising of 1745; his father died in 1788.--T.]
[Footnote 638: Louise Marie Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern, _de jure_
Louise Queen of England (1753-1824), known as the Countess of Albany
after Charles's death, when she secretly married the poet Alfieri, in
whom she had long inspired a lively passion. Alfieri died in 1803,
and Louise is said to have contracted a second _liaison_ and a third
marriage with François Xavier Pascal Fabre, the French historical
painter.--T.]
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