"I cannot resist the wish to tell you of my disappointment when I was told, on Monday the 28th of October, that you were away. I had called on you to have the honour of paying you my respects and exchanging a few words with the man to whom I have devoted all my admiration. Obliged as I was to leave Paris that same night, where perhaps I shall not return again, it would have been very pleasant for me to have seen you. When, in spite of my family's moderate means, I undertook the journey to Prague, I had placed among the Dumber of my hopes that of introducing myself to you. And yet, monsieur le vicomte, I cannot say that I have not seen you: I was one of the eight young men whom you met in the middle of the night at Schlau, not far from Prague. We arrived after having, for five mortal days, been the victims of the intrigue that has since been revealed to us. That meeting, at that place and hour, has something odd about it and will never be effaced from my memory, any more than will the image of him to whom royalist France owes the most useful services. "Pray accept, etc. "P. G. JULES DETERMES."--(_Author's Note_). [274] The accordion appears to have been invented really by Damian, in Vienna, in the year 1829.--T. [275] _Cf. supra_, p. 4.--T. [276] _Cf. supra_, p. 8.--T. [277] _Cf. supra_, p. 8.--T. [278] _Cf. supra_, p. 105.--T. [279] Joachim Liebhard (1500-1574), known as Camerarius, because several members of his family had been chamberlains, a native of Bamberg, a learned scholar, a friend of Melanchthon. Camerarius was the author of valuable Latin translations of many of the Greek classics, published editions, with commentaries, of many of the Latin classics, edited Melanchthon's Letters and left a Life of Melanchthon, Letters, Fables, etc. [280] Christopher Clavius (1537-1612), a native of Bamberg and a great Jesuit mathematician, was sent to Rome, where Gregory XIII. employed him on the reform of the Calendar.--T. [281] Giovanni Francesco Bernardone (1182-1226), canonized by Pope Gregory IX., in 1228, as St. Francis of Assisi, founded the Order of the Franciscans, or Mendicant Friars, in 1208: their rule was confirmed by Pope Honorius III. in 1223. St. Francis visited the Holy Land in 1219. In 1224, two years before his death, he received the Stigmata, on the heights of Monte La Verna, on the morning of the 14th of September, the Feast of the Exaltation of Holy Cross.--T. [282] The above page was written on the 6th of October 1833. Those which follow were begun in 1837. In September 1836, Chateaubriand wrote, at the Château de Maintenon, a chapter which was intended for his Memoirs, but not included in the earlier editions. This short chapter has been recovered by M. Biré and it will be found at the end of this volume as Appendix II.: _Unpublished Fragments of the Mémoires if Outre-tombe._--T. BOOK IX[283]