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 426: Charles Ledru, a young advocate gifted with a real
talent, was soon eclipsed by another republican advocate of the same
surname, Auguste Ledru. The latter, wishing to avoid the confusion
that would certainly have been established between himself and Charles
Ledru, added the name of his maternal great-grandmother to his own, and
became known as Ledru-Rollin.--B.]
[Footnote 427: Charles Philipon (1800-1862), the brilliant draughtsman,
founder of the _Caricature_ (1831), the _Charivari_ (1834) and, after
1848, the _Journal amusant_, the _Musée français_ and the _Petit
journal pour rire._ It was during one of his many trials that Philipon
invented and drew the "pear" which was thenceforth to become the symbol
of the head of Louis-Philippe. The next day, the walls of Paris were
covered with it.--T.]
[Footnote 428: He signs his verses, "J. Chopin, _employé au
cabinet._"--T.]
[Footnote 429: I omit these twenty lines.--T.]
[Footnote 430: Félix Barthe (1795-1863), after being linked with the
Carbonari and taking an active part in the Revolution of July, entered
M. Laffitte's dislocated ministry on the 27th of December 1830, to
replace the Minister of Public Instruction, M. Mérilhou. On the 12th
of March 1831, in the new Casimir-Périer Cabinet, he exchanged the
portfolio of Public Instruction for that of Justice. He kept the Seals
until the 4th of April 1834, when he fell with the Broglie Ministry. He
was then made a peer of France and President of the Audit Office. The
Second Empire made him a senator.--B.]
[Footnote 431: M. Demangeat.--B.]
[Footnote 432: Pierre Clément Bérard (1798--_circa_ 1890). During the
Hundred Days, being then seventeen years of age, he had enlisted in the
corps of Royal Volunteers of the Paris School of Law and accompanied
King Louis XVIII. to Ghent. In 1831 and 1832, he published a little
weekly pamphlet, the _Cancans_, whose title varied with every number:
_Cancans parisiens, Cancans accusateurs, Cancans courtisans, Cancans
inflexibles, Cancans saisis, Cancans prisonniers_, etc. Each issue
ended with a song. It was, as it were, a resurrection, after 1830, of
the _Actes des Apôtres_ of Rivarol, Champeenetz and their friends,
with the same violence and also the same pluck and spirit. Only, the
Cancans were edited, not by a company of wits, but by M. Bérard alone:
true, he was as witty as any four or forty. Seizures and prosecutions
rained upon the Cancans and their author, who was at last condemned to
fourteen years' imprisonment and a fine of thirteen thousand francs.
Fortunately, he succeeded in escaping to Holland, thus exchanging
prison for exile. In 1833, he published _Mon Voyage à Prague_ and then
went to Rome, where the Legitimists had founded a bank in which Bérard
accepted a clerkship. He was not again to leave the Eternal City,
where he died, not very many years ago, an impenitent Royalist. His
_Souvenirs sur Sainte-Pélagie en_ 1832 appeared in 1886.--B.]
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