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 398: On the 24th of April 1832 the Duchesse de Berry left
Massa on board a Sardinian steam-boat, the _Carlo-Alberto_, which she
had chartered. She called at Nice, put out to sea again, and arrived
in Marseilles waters on the 28th. She was accompanied by the Maréchal
de Bourmont, the Comte de Kergorlay, the Vicomte, later Comte de
Saint-Priest, Messieurs Emmanuel de Brissac, de Mesnard, Alexandre
Sala, Édouard Led'huy, the Vicomte de Kergorlay, Charles and Adolphe
de Bourmont, Alexis Sabatier, Ferrari, supercargo, and Mademoiselle
Mathilde Lebeschu. She disembarked at night, in a heavy sea, at one of
the most dangerous points of the coast. Concealed in the house of a
game-keeper, M. Maurel, she awaited the result of the movement planned
in Marseilles. At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 30th, Messieurs
de Bonrecueil, de Bermond, de Lachaud and de Candoles, who had escaped
from the town, arrived carrying this note:
"The movement has failed; you must leave France."--B.]
[Footnote 399: M. Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemont. He had furnished
himself with a passport for himself, his wife and a man-servant: the
Princess played the part of Madame de Villeneuve. The servant was the
Comte, later Duc, de Lorges.--B.]
[Footnote 400: After spending nine days, from the 7th to the 16th of
May, at the Château de Plassac, a few leagues from Blaye, with M. le
Marquis de Dampierre, the Duchesse de Berry arrived, on the 17th, at
the Château de la Preuille, near Montaigu, in the Vendée. The owner was
Colonel de Nacquart.--B.]
[Footnote 401: Pierre Antoine Berryer (1790-1868), known as Berryer the
Younger, to distinguish him from his father, Pierre Nicolas Berryer
(1757-1841), himself a most distinguished advocate and the defender of
Moreau and Ney. Berryer the Younger, after M. Chateaubriand's death,
became the most eloquent supporter of the Legitimist Cause and leader
of the party in France.--T.]
[Footnote 402: It was not at Quimper, but at Vannes, that Berryer
was to go to defend a case, that of Commandant Guillemot, accused of
Chouanism and brought before the Morbihan Assize Court on that count.
Commandant Guillemot's trial was fixed for the 12th of June.--B.]
[Footnote 403: The text of Chateaubriand's note to the Duchesse de
Berry ran as follows:
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