[Footnote 709: Shortly after the date of this letter, M. de La Ferronnays, who was ill, started for Italy and left the Foreign Office _ad interim_ in charge of M. Portalis.--_Author's Note._] [Footnote 710: M. Du Viviers was one of the attachés to the Embassy. He took with him to Paris the letter to Madame Récamier and also the report of Chateaubriand's conversation with the Pope--B.] [Footnote 711: Pierre Chauvin, the French landscape painter, lived in Rome from 1809 to 1827.--T.] [Footnote 712: Cavaliere Filippo Aureliano Visconti (1754-1831), President of the Roman Academy of Arts.--B.] [Footnote 713: General Armand Charles Comte Guilleminot (1774-1840) served under Dumouriez and Pichegru, later under Moreau, became a general in 1808, and a general of division in 1813. Under the Restoration, he became director-general of the military depots (1816) and, in 1823, drew up the plan of campaign of the Spanish War and accompanied the Duc d'Angoulême as chief of staff. At the end of the war, he was created a peer of France and, in 1824, sent as ambassador to Constantinople, where he remained till 1831.--T.] [Footnote 714: Madame Lenormant.--_Author's Note._ An expedition to the Morea from the point of view of science and art had been organized by the French Government. M. Charles Lenormant was to take part in it, and his wife, Madame Récamier's niece and adopted daughter, was proposing to accompany him.--B.] [Footnote 715: Napoléon Auguste Comte, later Duc de Montebello (1801-1874), son of Marshal Lannes. He had been created a peer of France in 1827, but did not take his seat in the Upper House until after the Revolution of July. In 1836, he became French Ambassador to Switzerland and, in 1838, Ambassador to Naples. He was subsequently Minister of Marine (1847-1848), a senator (1864) and Ambassador to St. Petersburg (1858-1866).--B.] [Footnote 716: This again refers to the ordinances of the 16th of June 1828.--B.] [Footnote 717: At the opening of the Chambers, 27 January 1829.--B.] [Footnote 718: I was mistaken.--_Author's Note_ (1837).] [Footnote 719: The Cardinal de Clermont-Tonnerre, who was on bad terms with the King's Government. He had protested loudly against the ordinance of the 16th of June 1828, touching the minor seminaries, concluding his letter to Monseigneur Feutrier, the Minister of Public Worship, with these words: "My lord, the motto of my family, which it received from Calixtus II., in 1120, is: _Etiamsi omnes, ego non._ It is also that of my conscience. "I have the honour to be, with the respectful consideration due to the King's minister, "† A. J. CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF TOULOUSE." In consequence of this letter, the King ordered the prelate to be prohibited from appearing at Court.] END OF VOL. IV. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Memoirs of François René Vicom e de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassad, by François René Chateaubriand and Alexander Teixeira de Mattos