[Footnote 346: It was easy for Madame Récamier's hand-writing to be smaller than that of Chateaubriand, who wrote in characters half-an-inch in height, and as though the alphabet contained only capital letters.--B.] [Footnote 347: Jean Chauvin, Cauvin, or Caulvin (1509-1564), generally known as John Calvin, the Protestant reformer, fled from France to Geneva in 1536, was banished in 1538, returned in 1541, and lived there till the day of his death. He founded the Academy of Geneva in 1559.--T.] [Footnote 348: A cousin of Benjamin Constant.--B.] [Footnote 349: Albertine Adrienne Necker de Saussure (1766-1841), daughter to Horace Bénédicte de Saussure, the naturalist, and cousin to Madame de Staël. Madame Necker was the author of the _Éducation progressive, ou Étude du cours de la vie_, which was crowned by the French Academy in 1839.--B.] [Footnote 350: Delphine Gay, later Madame Émile de Girardin (1804-1855), daughter of Madame Sophie Gay, and married to Émile de Girardin in 1831. She was the author of a number of comedies, novels and poems, and of _Lettres parisiennes_, contributed to the _Presse_ from 1836 to 1848.--T.] [Footnote 351: I omit this poem of nine stanzas, entitled the _Naufragé._--T.] [Footnote 352: The Pâquis are a quarter of Geneva stretching along the right bank of the lake from the Rue du Mont-Blanc to near the Lausanne road.--B.] [Footnote 353: Alexandre César Comte de Lapanouze (1764-1836) was a captain in the Navy at the time of the Revolution, resigned, and found himself completely ruined. Under the Second Restoration, he founded a banking-house in Paris which soon became one of the most important in the Capital. He was a deputy from 1822 to 1827, supported the Villèle Administration and, in 1827, was created a peer of France. Lapanouze retired from politics after the events of July and withdrew to his estate of Tiregant in Gascony.--B.] [Footnote 354: Cristina Principessa Belgiojoso (1808-1871), _née_ Trivulzio. She settled in early life in Paris, where she was noted for her wit and beauty and the independence of her opinions and her life. She became the friend of many celebrated writers, particularly of Alfred de Musset. In 1848, she flung herself with ardour into the revolutionary movement, hastened to Milan, which had risen in revolt, and furnished a battalion of volunteers at her own cost. She was the author of a number of works of travel and history, and, according to Balzac, was the original of the Duchesse de San-Severino in de Stendhal's Chartreuse de Parme.--B.] [Footnote 355: Ferney is a village about four miles from Geneva, in which Voltaire resided from 1758 to 1778.--T.] [Footnote 356: _Cf._ VOLTAIRE: _Zaïre_, in which tragedy Orosmane is the name of the Sultan of Jerusalem.--T.]