[Footnote 433: The reader will see in my account of my first journey to Prague my conversation with Charles X. on the subject of this loan.--_Author's Note_ (Paris, 1834). _Cf._ Vol. I, pp. 369-370.--T.] [Footnote 434: Amédée Simon Dominique Thierry (1797-1873). In 1810, he was tutor to Talleyrand's grand-nephews and, in 1828, published his _Histoire des Gaulois_, with great success. After the Days of July, he was appointed Prefect of the Haute-Saône. Later he filled more than one judicial office, under the Usurpation and the Second Empire, and was made a senator in 1860. He continued throughout to produce his historical works.--B.] [Footnote 435: _Cf._ AUGUSTIN THIERRY, _Récits des temps mérovingiens_: Preface.--B.] [Footnote 436: The Comte d'Artois entered France by Vesoul, in February 1814, and from there, on the 27th of February, dated his Proclamation to the French.--B.] [Footnote 437: Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1538), the great Dutch scholar and satirist, settled at Basle in 1521 and died there on the 12th of July 1528.--T.] [Footnote 438: The Emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia.--B.] [Footnote 439: Hans Holbein the Younger (_circa_ 1497-1543) lived in Basle from 1515 to 1523 and from 1528 to 1532. The _Dance of Death_ at Basle, if really Holbein, was painted in the earlier period.--T.] [Footnote 440: Martin Luther (1483-1546), founder of the heretical sect called after his name.--T.] [Footnote 441: Giovanni de' Medici, Pope Leo X. (1475-1521), elected Pope in 1513. It was during his Papacy, in the year 1517, that the Reformation began with Luther's protest against the sale of indulgences.--T.] [Footnote 442: Johann von Müller (1752-1809), a noted Swiss historian, author of the _Geschichte der Schweizer_, etc.--T.] [Footnote 443: Walther Fürst, Arnold von Melchthal and Werner Stauffacher were the three companions of William Tell, perhaps less legendary than he, who, according to tradition, liberated their country in the fourteenth century. The date of the oath on the Grütli, or Rütli, is 8 November 1307.--T.] [Footnote 444: Hermann Gessler, the imperial magistrate in Uri and Schwyz, said to have been shot by Tell in 1307.--T.] [Footnote 445: Saxo Grammaticus (_fl._ 13th century), the Danish historian, whose chronicles contain the stories of William Tell, Hamlet and other oral traditions, myths and legends.--T.] [Footnote 446: _Cf._ CHATEAUBRIAND, _Essai sur les révolutions_: the chapter entitled, _La Suisse pauvre et vertueuse_, in which the author describes as "very doubtful" the story of Tell and the apple.--B.] [Footnote 447: The Duc de Reichstadt had died on the 22nd of July 1832, a month earlier than the date of Chateaubriand's journey.--T.]