[312] Chateaubriand is wrong. The notice of _Ambroise_, a comic opera by Monvel and Nicolas Dalayrac occcurs in the _Gazette nationale, ou Le Moniteur universel_ of the 22nd of January 1793! but the report of the execution of Louis XVI. appears in the issue of the next day, Wednesday 23 January, two days after the tragedy took place. Immediately after the report comes this paragraph: "That excellent patriot, Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau, member of the Convention, was assassinated on Sunday at a tavern-keeper's, in the Palais _ci-devant_ Royal, by a former body-guard called Paris. The details of the crime were communicated to the National Convention; they will be found in the report of Monday's sitting." This report of "Monday's sitting" appears in the following Thursday's _Moniteur._--T. [313] _Cf._ Vol. V., pp. 206.207.--T. [314] At the time of the failure of the Duchesse de Berry's plans, followed by her arrest and imprisonment, feelings of irritation and regret reigned among the Royalists, of which several duels with members of the opposite party were the direct consequence. At the end of January 1833, Armand Carrel, after a certain article that appeared in the _National_, accepted a personal provocation and, from a list of ten names put before him, selected that of M. Roux-Laborie the Younger, who was personally quite unknown to him. Swords were the chosen weapons; the adversaries were both wounded: M. Roux-Laborie by two thrusts in the arm and hand; Carrel by a thrust in the stomach, which put his life in danger.--B. [315] Émile de Girardin (1806-1881), the journalist and economist (_Cf._ Vol. IV., p. 21, n. 2). A duel was arranged between Girardin and Armand Carrel in consequence of articles published in their respective journals, the _Presse_ and the _National._ It was fought in the Bois de Vincennes; the weapons chosen were pistols. The two adversaries were placed at forty paces from one another, with powers each to walk ten paces and to fire at will, a very much more dangerous method than the firing at the word of command, at a fixed distance, which is generally practised to-day. After each taking a few steps, the two adversaries fired almost at the same time: Émile de Girardin was shot through the thigh and Carrel was hit in the pit of the stomach. He succumbed to acute peritonitis from the lesions caused by the bullet, which had torn the intestines.--B. [316] _Cf._ p. 83, _supra._--T. [317] SHAKESPEARE: _Hamlet_, Act III., sc. i.--T. [318] Carrel's article on Sautelet's suicide (_Cf._ Vol. V., p. 83.--T.) appeared in the _Revue de Paris_ of June 1830, under the title of _Une Mort volontaire._--B. [319] Armand Carrel was born, at Rouen, on the 8th of May 1800, the day on which Chateaubriand set foot at Calais (_Cf._ Vol. II., p. 148, n. 1).-T. [320] _Cf._ Vol. V., pp. 120-122.--T.