[295] Simon Deutz was the converted Jew who betrayed the Duchesse de Berry's hiding-place to Thiers in 1832 (_cf._ Vol. III., p. 156).--T. [296] DANTE: _Hell_, Canto I., 50.--B. [297] The Sirens, daughters of Achelous and Calliope, represented as having the head, arms and bust of a young woman and the wings and lower part of the body of a bird.--T. [298] _Cf._ VIR., _Geor._, IV., 82-83, 86-87: Ipsi per medias acies, insignibus alis, Ingentes animos angusto in pectore versant. . . . . . . . . Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt.--B. [299] La Fayette died in Paris on the 19th of May 1834. He was already suffering from indisposition, when he insisted on following, on foot, the funeral of Dulong, the deputy killed in a duel by General Bugeaud. He took to his bed on returning home and did not leave it again.--B. [300] Rivarol, in the early days of the Revolution, had nicknamed General La Payette "César-Gille."--B. [301] La Fayette was mixed up in Caron's military conspiracy at Belfort in 1821 (_Cf._ Vol. IV., p. 211, nn. 4-5).--T. [302] Having failed to secure his re-election as a deputy in 1824, La Fayette took advantage of this enforced rest to revisit America. He was absent from France for fourteen months.--B. [303] Edward Everett (1794-1865), a celebrated American statesman, orator and author. He was professor of Greek at Harvard College from 1819 to 1825; editor of the _North American Review_ from 1820 to 1824; Member of Congress from Massachusetts from 1825 to 1835; Governor of Massachusetts from 1836 to 1840; Minister to England from 1841 to 1845; President of Harvard College from 1846 to 1849; Secretary of State from 1852 to 1853; and Senator from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1854. In 1860, he was the candidate for Vice-president of the Constitutional Union Party. His _Orations and Speeches on various Occasions_ were published in Boston, in 4 volumes, in 1850.--T. [304] EVERETT: _An Oration pronounced at Cambridge before the Society of Phi Beta Kappa, August_ 26, 1824 (Boston, Mass.: 1824).--T. [305] I omit six lines of verse.--T. [306] La Fayette was married to Mademoiselle de Noailles on the 11th of April 1774; she died in 1807.--T. [307] La Fayette's tomb is in one corner of the little Picpus Cemetery, near the Avenue de Saint-Mandé. At the end of the Picpus Cemetery is the _Cimetière des guillotinés_, where 1300 victims of the Revolution, executed at the Barrière du Trône, are interred. These include André Chénier, Lavoisier, General Beauharnais and many other bearers of noted names.--T. [308] The Duc de Montmorency-Laval died in 1826.--T. [309] A sort of cakes.--T. [310] M. Dupin the Elder.--B. [311] Georges de La Fayette.--_Author's Note._ Georges Washington de La Fayette (1779-1849), La Fayette's only son and a godson of Washington, sat in the Chamber of Deputies, on the Extreme Left, from 1827 to 1849.--T.