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 644: Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England (1609-1669),
married to King Charles I. in 1625. She finally left England for France
in 1644, five years before the King's death.--T.]
[Footnote 645: Louis XV. ordered Prince Charles Edward to leave France
after the failure of the Forty-five.--T.]
[Footnote 646: Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande (1732-1807), a
distinguished but eccentric astronomer. The singularity of his taste
displayed itself in the consumption of spiders and caterpillars;
that of his opinions in his love for proclaiming himself an atheist.
Lalande's _Voyage dun Français en Italie_ was published in 1769.--T.]
[Footnote 647: Duclos (_see_ Vol. I., p. 74, n. 1) visited Italy in
1766 and wrote his _Considérations sur l'Italie_, which were not
published till 1791, nineteen years after his death.--B.]
[Footnote 648: Charles Marguerite Jean Baptiste Mercier Dupaty
(1746-1788), an eminent French jurist, a president of the Parliament
of Bordeaux and author of _Réflexions historiques sur les lois
criminelles: Lettres sur l'Italie in 1785_ (1788), a superficial,
turgid, but not unsuccessful work, promptly placed on the _Index._--T.]
[Footnote 649: DUPATY, _Travels through Italy_, Letter 79.--T.]
[Footnote 650: _Ibid._, Letter 87.--T.]
[Footnote 651: _Ibid._, Letter 55.--T.]
[Footnote 652: Charles Dupaty (1771-1825), the president's eldest son,
studied in Rome and became a sculptor of merit. His Venus Genitrix is
one of his best-known works.--B.]
[Footnote 653: Goethe visited Italy in 1786.--T]
[Footnote 654: Byron visited Rome in 1817.--T.]
[Footnote 655: _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto IV. stanza 79.--T.]
[Footnote 656: The fourth canto of _Childe Harold_ was published in
1818; Byron died at Missolonghi in 1823.--T.]
[Footnote 657: I invite the perusal of two articles by M. Jean
Jacques Ampère in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ of the 1st and 15th of
July 1835, entitled, _Portraits de Rome à différents ages._ Those
curious documents will complete a picture of which I here give only a
sketch.--_Author's Note_ (Paris, 1837).]
[Footnote 658: Vittoria Principessa Altieri (1799-1840), _née_
Boncompagni-Ludovisi degli Principi di Piombino.--T.]
[Footnote 659: The Principessa Barberini-Colonna di Palestrina.--T.]
[Footnote 660: Margherita Principessa Rospigliosi, Duchessa di Zagarolo
(1786-1864), _née_ Gioeni-Colonna.--T.]
[Footnote 661: Teresa Principessa Del Drago (1801-1858), _née_
Massimo.--T.]
[Footnote 662: Maria Duchessa di Lante Monfeltrio delle Rovere
(1799-1840), _née_ Colonna.--T.]
[Footnote 663: Not Mellini, as the earlier editions have it. It was at
the Villa Millini that General Alexandre Berthier, the future Prince of
Neuchâtel, on the 11th of February 1798, received the lawyers, bankers
and artists who were to constitute the new Roman Republic.--B.]
[Footnote 664: Apollodorus (117-138), the architect who designed the
Forum and Column of Trajan.--T.]
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