[Footnote 491: Chateaubriand appeared before the Assize Court of the Seine on the 27th of February 1833. With him were prosecuted the editors of the _Quotidienne_, the _Gazette de France_, the _Revenant_, the _Écho français_, the _Mode_, the _Courrier de l'Europe_ and a young student, M. Victor Thomas, who had, on the 4th of January, acted as spokesman for 1,200 young men who had gone to make a display of their enthusiasm to Chateaubriand and who had repeated with him: "Madame, your son is my King!" All were acquitted after an admirable speech for the defense by M. Berryer, who appeared for the _Quotidienne_ and the _Gazette de France._ Maître Charles Ledru appeared for the defense of the _Écho français_ and, incidentally and, as it seems, somewhat unfortunately, for Chateaubriand.--B.] [Footnote 492: Jean Charles Persil (1785-1870) was a deputy from 1830 to 1839, a peer of France from 1839 to 1848 and a Councillor of State under the Second Empire. Immediately after the Revolution of July, he was appointed Attorney-general to the Royal Court of Paris. His zeal in prosecuting the republican and legitimist papers alike won him a formidable unpopularity.--B.] [Footnote 493: M. de Falloux, who had made his way into court in a barrister's robes, describes the scene in his Memoirs. When the presiding judge had announced the acquittal of all the defendants, the crowd pressed around Berryer and Chateaubriand. The latter was obliged to cling to M. de Falloux' arm so as not to be thrown down. "I don't like fuss!" he kept saying. "I don't like fuss! Take me quickly to my carriage!" But on the steps the cheers were redoubled: "Long live Chateaubriand! The liberty of the press for ever!" They wanted to unharness the horses and yoke themselves to the carriage: "Don't!" he entreated. "It's very far, it's very far, you can't do it!" At last the driver succeeded in clearing a way, and set out at a gallop. (_Cf._ FALLOUX, _Mémoires d'un royaliste_, vol. I. p. 60.)--B.] [Footnote 494: The famous restaurateur in the Palais-Royal. Alas, at the moment of writing this note, Chevet's has just put out its fires and closed its doors!--B.] [Footnote 495: Lucius Junius Brutus, Roman Consul (_fl._. 509 B.C.), condemned his own sons, Titus and Tiberius, to death, for conspiring to restore Tarquin.--T.] BOOK III[496]