The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de, 1768-1848
"M. de Chateaubriand replied:
"'Ah, you are right; I did not think of that this morning.'"--B.
[25] St. Geneviève of Brabant (_fl._ 8th Century), the subject of a
number of romantic legends and adventures.--T.
[26] Domenico Zampieri (1581-1641), known as Domenichino, a noted
Italian painter of the Eclectic-Bologna School.--T.
[27] Andrea Palladio (1518-1580), the celebrated Italian architect.--T.
[28] BOILEAU: _Épitres_, vi.--B.
[29] Jean Philippe René de La Bletterie (1696-1772), a priest of the
Oratory, a native of Brittany like Chateaubriand and author of an
_Histoire de l'empereur Julien l'Apostat_ (1735).--T.
[30] The following is John Duncombe's translation of Julian's Greek
Epigram on Barley-wine:
"Who, what art thou? Thy name, thy birth declare:
Thou art no Bacchus, I by Bacchus swear.
Jove's son alone I know, I know not thee;
Thou smell'st like goats, but sweet as nectar he.
In Gallia, thirsty Gallia, thou wert born,
Scanty of grapes, but prodigal of corn.
Bromus, not Bromius, styl'd, thy brows with corn,
As sprung from Ceres, not from Jove, adorn."
[31] The common phrase is, "That's Toulouse gold, which will cost him
dear:" a reference to the gold stolen by the Romans at Toulouse, which
brought ill-luck, according to the legend, to all who possessed it.--T.
[32] François Michel Letellier, Marquis de Louvois (1641-1691), the
organizer of the French standing army. Louvois was Minister of War
from 1666 to 1691; the Palatinate was burnt down in 1674 and again in
1689.--T.
[33] François de Bonne de Créqui, Maréchal Duc de Lesdiguières (_circa_
1687), one of the greatest French captains of the seventeenth century,
served gloriously under Louis XIV. in the campaigns of Flanders, Alsace
and Lorraine, from 1667 to 1678. He took Luxemburg in 1684.--T.
[34] Armand Maréchal de La Force (_circa_ 1586-1675) served with
distinction in the Italian and German Wars.--T.
[35] Louis Hector Maréchal Duc de Villars (1653-1734), Marlborough's
famous adversary.--T.
[36] Turenne was killed by a cannon-ball while reconnoitering at
Sasbach (27 July 1675). The _Pic_ was his favourite piebald charger.--T.
[37] François de Lorraine, Duc de Guise, successfully defended Metz
against Charles V. from October 1552 to January 1553; Vauban laid the
new fortifications, outside the old, in the reign of Louis XIV.--T.
[38] The father of Alexis de Tocqueville.--_Author's Note. Cf._ Vol.
II., p. 295, n. 1.--T.
The Comte de Tocqueville administered the Department of the Moselle
from February 1817 to June 1823.--B.
[39] Abraham Maréchal Fabert (1599-1662), Governor of Sedan, son of
Abraham Fabert, the director of the ducal printing-works at Metz, was
the first commoner who became a marshal of France (1658).--T.
[40] Metz was plundered by the Vandals in 406.--T.
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