[Footnote 458: Johann Caspar Lavater (1741-1801), the Swiss poet and theologian and founder of the so-called science of physiognomy, was born and died at Zurich.--T.] [Footnote 459: Salomon Gessner (1730-1788), the poet, landscape-painter and engraver was also born and died at Zurich.--T.] [Footnote 460: Madame Récamier had been very much alarmed by the cholera, which had made many victims around her, in the Rue de Sèvres, and had decided, in the month of August, to leave Paris and travel in Switzerland. In spite of her real courage, and although she had often been known to be prodigal and fearless in her attendance on persons attacked by infectious complaints, she had an invincible and almost superstitious terror of cholera. Was it a presentiment? She died of cholera on the 11th of May 1849.--B.] [Footnote 461: Prince Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, Comte de Saint-Leu, later Prince President of the French Republic, later Napoleon III. Emperor of the French (1808-1873), third son of Hortense de Beauhamais and, putatively, of Louis King of Holland, younger brother of Napoleon I.--T.] [Footnote 462: Ancona, in the Papal States, was held by the French from 1831 to 1837.--T.] [Footnote 463: Charles Parquin, an ex-officer of the Imperial Army, had known Prince Louis since 1822. In 1824, he bought the estate of Wolfsberg, situated near Arenenberg, and married Mademoiselle Cochelet, who was a maid-of-honour of Queen Hortense and who had been brought up with the Queen, when the latter was Mademoiselle de Beauhamais, at Madame Campan's. Major Parquin took a most active part in the Strasburg enterprise, 30 October 1836. He was arrested by the Prince's side, tried and acquitted (6 January 1837).--B.] [Footnote 464: John Huss (1369-1415), the Bohemian reformer and Wyclifite, was cited before the Council of Constance, in Baden, and burned at the stake as a heretic on the 6th of July 1415.--T.] [Footnote 465: Jerome of Prague (_circa_ 1365-1416) was a fellow-countryman, associate and follower of Huss. He was burned at Constance on the 30th of May 1415.--T.] [Footnote 466: Constance was sacked by the Huns in the fifth century.--T.] [Footnote 467: In the early part of the tenth century.--T.] [Footnote 468: 30 August to 5 October 1633.--T.] [Footnote 469: In 1796 and 1799.--T.] [Footnote 470: Charles III. Emperor of the Romans and II. King of France (839-888), surnamed the Fat, died and was buried at the Abbey of Reichenau, in the Lake of Constance, one year after his deposition.--T.] [Footnote 471: _Cf._ Vol. IV, p. 287, n. I.--T.]