[321] The gravity of Carrel's wound did not allow of his being conveyed to the house in which he lived, at No. 7, now No. 18, Rue Grange-Batelière. He was accordingly taken to one of his old school-fellows of the Military School, M. Adolphe Peyra, who was spending the summer at his mother's house at Saint-Mandé. M. Peyra was a retired officer in the Guards, who had himself fought many duels and had kept up friendly relations with Carrel, although they were in different camps: Peyra was an ardent Royalist.--B. [322] THE GRAVE-DIGGER'S RECEIPT. "I have received from M. de Chateaubriand the sum of eighteen francs that remained owing for the trellis-work which surrounds the grave of M. Armand Carrel. "SAINT-MANDÉ, 21 _June_ 1838. "Paid: VAUDRAN." "Received from M. de Chateaubriand the sum of twenty francs for keeping up the grave of M. Carrel at Saint-Mandé. "PARIS, 28 _September_ 1839. "Paid: VAUDRAN."--B. ] [323] Sabine Casimir Amable Voïart, Dame Tastu (1798-1885), author of several volumes of verse: _Poésies_(1826), _Chroniques de France_(1829), _Poésies nouvelles_ (1834), _Œuvres politiques_(1837). She also published a large number of educational books. Some of her poems, notably the _Ange gardien_, the _Dernier jour de l'année_ and the _Feuilles de saule_ are happily inspired and deserve to live.--B. [324] Favorinus (_d. circa_ 135), a skeptical philosopher, a native of Arles, in Gaul, who taught rhetoric in Athens and in Rome under Hadrian.--T. [325] 451-450 B.C.--T. [326] Carmenta, the Arcadian prophetess, mother of Evander by Mercury.--T. [327] Sappho (_b. circa_ 612 B.C.), the most famous of poetesses. She was surnamed the Tenth Muse.--T. [328] Corinna (_fl. circa_ 470 B.C.), the Greek poetess, surnamed the Lyric Muse. She conquered Pindar in a trial of poetry and carried off the palm before him no less than five times.--T. [329] Pindar (_circa_ 520 B.C.--_circa_ 450 B.C.), the greatest of the Greek lyric poets.--T. [330] Marie de France (_fl._ 13th Century), author of a collection of fables entitled _Ysopet_, narrative poems entitled _Laïs_ and a Purgatory of St. Patrick. Her works were collected and published in Paris in 1832.--T. [331] Beatrix Comtesse de Die in her own right (_fl._ 12th Century), author of a few Provençal poems.--T. [332] _Cf._ Vol. II., p. 308, n. 6.--T. [333] Loyse Labé, _Sonnets_, XIII., 1-2: "Oh, if I were in that fair bosom rapt Of him for whom I ever dying go!"--T. [334] Clémence de Bourges was a young girl of Lyons, famous for her wit and her beauty and a friend and admirer of Loyse Labé. She died early, of a broken heart, and was given a magnificent funeral by the Lyonese. The poets of the day called her the "Pearl of Damsels, a truly Oriental pearl."--T.