[Footnote 142: Madame Giuditta Pasta (1798-1865), _née_ Negri, the Italian-Jewish opera-singer, who was one of the leading sopranos in Paris and Italy from 1819 until about 1835.--T.] [Footnote 143: The Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Comte Sieyès (1748-1836), the framer of constitutions, was Ambassador to Berlin in 1798-1799, a member of the Directory 1799 and, provisionally, a Consul. Bonaparte made him a senator and, later, a count of the Empire. He was exiled at the Restoration, and lived in Brussels until the Revolution of 1830, when he returned to Paris.--B.] [Footnote 144: M. de Martignac was appointed head of the Duc d'Angoulême's political council on the outbreak of the Spanish War, and received the title of Civil Commissary to the Army in Spain.--B.] [Footnote 145: OV., _Met._ XI.: Quum mare sub noctem tumidis albescere cœpit Fluctibus.--B.] [Footnote 146: _Æn._ VII. 27.--B.] [Footnote 147: _Æn._ V. 857.--B.] [Footnote 148: Armandine Lucile Aurore Baronne Dudevant, known as George Sand (1804-1876), _née_ Dupin. _Valentine_, her second novel, was published in 1832.--T.] [Footnote 149: Richard I. King of England (1157-1199), surnamed Cœur-de-Lion, was mortally wounded while besieging Chalus, near Limoges, 6 April 1199.--T.] [Footnote 150: Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (_circa_ 1620-1655) was born at Bergerac Castle, and entered the regiment of Guards, where he was distinguished by his enormous nose. _Post hoc vel propter hoc_, he achieved fame as a duellist, which he exchanged later for that of a man of letters, a career which he adopted after being twice severely wounded in war.--T.] [Footnote 151: The Cardinal d'Ossat was born at the Roque-en-Magnoac, in the Diocese of Auch, on the 23rd of August 1536.--B.] [Footnote 152: Jean Froissart (1337--_circa_ 1410), the chronicler.--T.] [Footnote 153: I omit these verses.--T.] [Footnote 154: Occitania, a name often given to Languedoc, and to the whole Mediterranean coast, during the middle ages.--T.] [Footnote 155: Florio's MONTAIGNE, Booke III., Chap. V.: _Upon some Verses of Virgil._--T.] [Footnote 156: The _Moniteur_ of 9 August 1829 announced the formation of a new ministry, composed as follows: the Prince de Polignac, Foreign Affairs; M. de La Bourdonnaye, Interior; M. Courvoisier, Justice; M. de Chabrol, Finance; General de Bourmont, War; Admiral de Rigny, Navy; M. de Montbel, Ecclesiastical Affairs and Public Instruction. Admiral de Rigny, a nephew of the Baron Louis, and a Liberal, had been appointed without being consulted. He refused to take office, and the Baron d'Haussez, Prefect of Bordeaux, was appointed Minister for the Navy in his stead.--B.] [Footnote 157: In the _Moniteur_ of 27 August 1829, I find: "We hear from Pau, 20 August: