[486] I omit five lines of verse from La Fontaine on Madame de Montespan.--T. [487] Madame de Montespan was a Mademoiselle de Rochechouart de Mortemart (_Cf._ Vol. I., p. 103, n. 1).-T. [488] Jacques Duc de FitzJames (1799-1846).--T. [489] François Christophe Edmond Kellermann, Duc de Valmy (1802-1868), grandson of Marshal Kellermann, first Duc de Valmy, shortly after the Revolution of July became a fervent Legitimist. He resigned his seat in the Chamber of Deputies, after his visit to Belgrave Square, and was re-elected; but he retired from political life entirely in 1846. Like the Duc de Noailles and the other Legitimists, Valmy was opposed to Louis-Philippe's English Alliance and would have preferred an alliance with Russia. Those who have read the Memoirs carefully will entertain little doubt that these were also the views of Chateaubriand himself.--T. [490] Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé (1626-1700), the great reformer of the Trappist Order. Chateaubriand's Life of Rancé appeared in 1844.--T. [491] _Cf._ Vol. I., p. 189 and Vol. II., p. 72.--T. [492] _Cf._ Vol. IV., Book IX.-T. [493] _Cf._ Vol. II., pp. 86 _et seq._--T. [494] _Cf._ Vol. I., p. 187.--T. [495] _Ibid._ pp. 188-189.--T. [496] _Cf._ Vol. II., p. 69.--T. [497] I find that Anne Louise de Chateaubriand, eldest daughter of Geoffroy Louis Comte de Chateaubriand, became Baronne de Baudry (not Baulny).--T. [498] Later Charles III. Duke of Parma (1823-1854), assassinated on the 27th of March 1854, father to the present Duke. (_Cf._ Vol. IV., p. 224, n. 2.)--T. [499] _Cf._ Vol. V., p. 364.--T. [500] Marie Anne Françoise de Chateaubriand, Comtesse de Marigny (1760-1860), who lived to the age of over a hundred years (_Cf._ Vol. I., _passim_).--T. [501] LACOMBE: _Vie de Berryer_, VOL. II., P. 401.--B. [502] By the Abbé Georges Bertram, professor of the Catholic Institute of Paris (Paris: 1899; one vol. 8vo).--B. [503] _Mémoires et souvenirs du baron Hyde de Neuville_, VOL. III., P. 579.--B. [504] Théodore Simon Jouffroy (1796-1842), a noted philosophical writer, a professor at several institutions and librarian of the University of Paris from 1838. He translated Dugal Stewart's _Outlines of Moral Philosophy_ (1826) and the Complete Works of Thomas Reid (1824-1836) and wrote a _Cours de droit naturel_ (1834-1842), a _Cours d'esthétique_ (posthumous: 1843), _Mélanges philosophiques_ (1833) and _Nouveaux mélanges_ (published after his death).-T. [505] Pierre Benjamin Lafaye (1808-1867), a distinguished philologist, was appointed professor of philosophy at the Royal College of Marseilles in 1837 and, in 1849, was transferred to Aix. In 1858, he published his _Dictionnaire des synonymes de la langue française_, the finest work of this class that exists in any language.--T. [506] Étienne Gaston Baron de Flotte (1805-1882), a poet and man of letters of some merit and an ardent Catholic and Legitimist.--T.