[Footnote 66: The Vicomte de Sesmaisons, third Secretary of Embassy, son of Donatien Comte de Sesmaisons and grandson, through his mother, of the Chancelier Dambray. The two first secretaries were Messieurs Bellocq and Desmousseaux de Givré, who will be mentioned later. Attached to the embassy were Messieurs de Montebello (the son of Marshal Lannes, referred to above), Du Viviers, de Mesnard, d'Haussonville, and Hyacinthe Pilorge, Chateaubriand's faithful secretary.--B.] [Footnote 67: Then Ambassador to Naples.--B.] [Footnote 68: M. Fuscaldo.--_Author's Note._ The Conte Fuscaldo was Neapolitan Ambassador to Rome.--B.] [Footnote 69: M. Bellocq was First Secretary of the Embassy.--B.] [Footnote 70: M. Desmousseaux de Givré (_b._ 1794) had served under Chateaubriand in London in 1822. He resigned on the accession of the Polignac Ministry, and re-entered the Diplomatic Service after 1830. Desmousseaux de Givré sat in the Chamber of Deputies, as a Conservative, from 1837 to 1848, and in the Legislative Assembly from 1849 to 1851, when he retired into private life.--B.] [Footnote 71: _Wis._ II. 2.--T.] [Footnote 72: Francis IV. Duke of Modena (1779-1847).] [Footnote 73: Charles Albert King of Sardinia (1798-1849) ascended the throne on the death of his kinsman, King Charles Felix, in 1831.--T.] [Footnote 74: The Duke of Modena defended himself against this accusation. _Cf._ MARCELLUS, _Chateaubriand et son temps_, p. 363, where the matter is explained.--B.] [Footnote 75: The Cardinal-Archbishop of Toulouse had sprained a sinew on alighting from his carriage after crossing the Arno. This accident delayed him for several days at Siena, and caused him to be the last of the French cardinals to enter the Conclave (MARCELLUS, _Chateaubriand et son temps_, p. 358).--B.] [Footnote 76: Prince Paul Charles Frederic Augustus of Wurtemberg (1785-1852), son of Frederic I. King of Wurtemberg, brother of William I. and father of the Grand-duchess Helen of Russia.--T.] [Footnote 77: Wife of King Joseph, who had adopted the title of Comte de Survilliers, as his brother Louis had taken the name of Duc de Saint-Leu, and his brother Jerome that of Comte de Montfort.--B.] [Footnote 78: Hildebrand, Pope St. Gregory VII. (_circa_ 1020-1085), elected Pope in 1073, one of the greatest militant Popes. It was to St. Gregory that the Emperor Henry IV. aid penance at Canossa in 1077.--T.] [Footnote 79: The abduction of Pius VII. (5 July 1809).--T.] [Footnote 80: Sciarra Colonna had been outlawed by Boniface VIII. and was concerned with Nogaret in the attempt to carry off the Pontiff.--T.] [Footnote 81: Guillaume de Nogaret (_d._ 1314), Chancellor to Philip the Fair, by whose orders, in 1303, together with Sciarra Colonna, he seized the person of Pope Boniface VIII. at Anagni and subjected him to the most culpable violence. Boniface was shortly released by the populace, and Nogaret besought the Pope's absolution.--T.]