[264] The Marquis de Pastoret (_Cf._ Vol. V., p. 303, n. 2). He succeeded Dambray in 1829 as Chancellor of France and, although he resigned all his functions after the Revolution of July, he always remained the "Chancellor" to Charles X. In 1834, he became tutor to the children of the Duchesse de Berry, a charge to which he applied himself with great devotion, in spite of his advanced years: he was born in 1756.--B. [265] _Cf._ Vol. V., p. 187, n. 4 and p. 188, n. 1.--T. [266] Marie Joseph Marquis de Foresta (_d._ 1858) was prefect of different departments, under the Restoration, and an honorary lord of the Bed-chamber to the King. He had a cultured, nice and penetrating mind and had given proof of his literary talents at an early age, having dedicated to the Duchesse de Berry two charming and ingenious volumes entitled, _Lettres sur la Sicile_ and published when he was only twenty-two. He remained attached to the person of the Comte de Chambord until his death (11 February 1858). The Marquise de Foresta was the finished type of a Christian gentleman.--B. [267] _Bohémiennes_: gipsy-women. _Cf._ Vol. II., p. 55, where Chateaubriand, suffering from smallpox and starving, meets a gipsy-woman who gives him an apple.--T. [268] Christine de Pisan (1363-1415), born in Venice, came to the Court of France with her father, Thomas de Pisan, who had been appointed astrologer to Charles V. She married a Frenchman of good family, was left a widow at an early age, and devoted herself to literature for her consolation. She left ballads, lays, virelays, rondeaus and short poems, such as the _Débat des deux amants_, the _Chemin de longue étude_, etc., and a number of prose works, including the _Vision de Christine de Pisan_ and the work from which the above quotation is taken, entitled, the _Livre des faiets et bonnes mœurs de Charles V._ Some of her works were translated from the Romance language into French and published separately, in Paris, in 1522, 1536, 1549 and later years.--T. [269] King Charles V. of France was surnamed the "Wise."--T. [270] Philip III. King of France (1245-1285), surnamed the Bold, succeeded St. Louis IX., in 1270. He was a gallant King and would have cut a fine figure beside any other than his glorious father.--T. [271] Charles VI. (1368-1422), surnamed the Well-Beloved, succeeded his father in 1380 and lost his reason in 1392 (_Cf. supra_ p. 10, n. 3).--T. [272] _Cf._ Vol. V., p. 392.--T. [273] I received from Périgueux, on the 14th of November, the following letter, which, leaving the praises of myself on one side, states facts as I have told them: PÉRIGUEUX, 10 _November_ 1833. "MONSIEUR LE VICOMTE,