The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
[Footnote 387: Chateaubriand has confused the two Cadets de Gassicourt,
father and son. Cadet de Gassicourt the Elder (1760-1831) wrote
short verses and published two little pamphlets directed against
Chateaubriand and Madame de Staël: _Saint-Géran, au la Nouvelle
langue française_ (1807) and the _Suite de Saint-Géran, ou Itinéraire
de Lutèce au Mont-Valérien_ (1811). His son, F. Cadet de Gassicourt
(1789-1861), was Mayor of the 4th Ward and the individual referred to
above.--B.]
[Footnote 388: This proclamation of Cadet de Gassicourt's was posted
on the walls of Paris on the 4th of April 1832. Couched in hateful and
ridiculous terms, it practically called upon the populace to murder
the Carlists, "those ancient tyrants, who are capable of adopting
all methods and who do not blush to have a horrible plague as their
auxiliary!"--B.]
[Footnote 389: This was a piece of ignorant clap-trap. As the daughter
of Francis I. King of the Two Sicilies, the Duchesse de Berry was
entitled to be styled "Royal Highness" in France or anywhere else.--T.]
[Footnote 390: Referring to the traditional attitude of the
surgeon-apothecary.--T.]
[Footnote 391: Monseigneur de Quélen. (_Cf._ Vol. IV, p. III, n.
I.)--T.]
[Footnote 392: _Rom._ XIII. 10.--T.]
[Footnote 393: _Cf._ MATT. v. 7.--T.]
[Footnote 394: Maximilien Comte Lamarque (1770-1832) took a
distinguished part in all the campaigns of the Revolution and the
Empire. He sat as a deputy throughout the Restoration on the side of
the Opposition. General Lamarque died of cholera on the 1st of June
1832.--T.]
[Footnote 395: General Lamarque's funeral took place on the 5th of
June 1832. The members of the secret societies, the schools, the
men condemned for political offenses, the artillery of the National
Guard, the foreign refugees had arranged to meet there. At a signal
given by means of a red flag, the Republicans disarmed fixed posts,
threw up barricades, pillaged the Arsenal and the shops, but were
unable to draw over the workmen or the National Guard. General Lobeau,
at the head of serious forces, swept the main thoroughfares and
confined the insurrection between the Marché des Innocents and the
Faubourg Saint-Antoine. By the morning of the 6th, it was reduced to
impotence and abandoned by its own leaders. The day was none the less
slaughterous, especially at the Cloître Saint-Merry and in the Rue des
Arris.--B.]
[Footnote 396: By Royal Ordinance dated 6th June 1832.--B.]
[Footnote 397: Cheops, or Khufu, King of Egypt of the 4th Dynasty.--T.]
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