[360] Apelles (_fl. circa_ 332 B.C.), the famous Greek painter. His _Aphrodite Anadyomene_ (_vide supra_) was originally painted for the Temple of Æsculapius in Cos. It was afterwards bought by Augustus and placed in the Temple of Cæsar in Rome.--T. [361] Praxiteles (_circa_ 360 B.C.--_circa_ 280 B.C.), the greatest Greek sculptor after Phidias. His _Aphrodite of Cnidus_ ranks as one of the most admired statues of antiquity. A replica of this statue is now in the Glyptothek in Munich.--T. [362] Leæna (_fl._ 514 B.C.), the mistress of Harmodius and Aristogiton, the Athenian patriots.--T. [363] Harmodius (_d._ 514 B.C.), who, with Aristogiton, delivered Athens from the tyranny of Hipparchus.--T. [364] _Cf._, on the _Congrès de Vérone_, M. Biré's Appendix, Vol. IV., pp. 215-219.--T. [365] Talleyrand died in Paris on the 17th of May 1838.--B. [366] _Cf._ Vol. III., pp. 145 _et seq._--T. [367] _Ibid._, pp. 171-175.--T. [368] The Marquis de Maubreuil (_cf._ Vol. III., p. 86, n. 1), escaping from police surveillance, went, on the 20th of January, to Saint-Denis, during the celebration of the anniversary of the death of Louis XVI., and there, in the midst of the solemnity, he struck Talleyrand in the face and threw him to the ground. Maubreuil was charged with the offense and received sentence; but the affair made a terrible noise, of which Talleyrand's innumerable enemies did not fail to take advantage.--B. [369] _Cf._ Vol. III., p. 147--T. [370] Speech of the Prince de Talleyrand against the vote of one hundred millions proposed for the cost of the Spanish War (March 1823).--B. [371] Elisabeth Pierre Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1764-1834) was President of the Legislative Body in 1810, 1811 and 1813. He was created a count of the Empire in 1809 and, in the following year, was appointed Great Chamberlain of France in Talleyrand's stead.--B. [372] The Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville (_Cf._ Vol. IV., p. 134, n. 1) was a member of the Chamber of Peers from 1814 to 1831.--B. [373] Jean Girard Lacuée, Comte de Cessac (1752-1841) was an inspector-general of reviews under Napoleon (1806), a minister of State (1806) and Minister of the Board of Military Administration. He was a member of the French Academy.--B. [374] The Comte Roederer, in his _Souvenirs_, describes a conversation which he had with the Emperor, at the Élysée, on the 6th of March 1809. The subject of the conversation was King Joseph, who, in his letters from Madrid to his wife and Napoleon, complained of his brother and threatened to leave the Throne of Spain to go and grow his small potatoes at Mortefontaine. Napoleon, in the course of this interview with Roederer, walked to and fro, and became more and more excited as he spoke of the contents of those letters: