The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. Volume 6 (of 6): Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 6 — John Shaqi
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
[41] Iñez de Castro (_d._ 1355), favourite and, later, wife of Peter of
Portugal, son of Alphonsus IV. The King had her murdered to prevent the
consequences of an unequal union. When Peter ascended the throne, as
Peter I., afterwards surnamed the Justiciary and the Cruel, he avenged
her death on her murderers by having their hearts torn out in his
presence at Santarem, in 1360. He caused Iñez to be exhumed and crowned
and showed her royal honours.--T.
[42] _Cf._ Vol. V., p. 207, n. 1.--T.
[43] Madame Récamier was banished to Châlons in September 1811.--T.
[44] Madame de La Sablière (_fl._ 17th Century), wife of Antoine
Rambouillet de La Sablière, one of the ornaments of the seventeenth
century and immortalized by the hospitality which she accorded to La
Fontaine.--T.
[45] Bossuet was Bishop of Meaux.--T.
[46] The Duchesse de Berry embarked on the 9th of June 1833.--B.
[47] The Marquis de Pastoret.--B.
[48] St. Martin (_circa_ 316--_circa_ 397) Bishop of Tours (371). He is
honoured on the 11th of November.--T.
[49] The brother of Amadis of Gaul.--T.
[50] Robert Count of Paris (_d._ 866), surnamed the Strong, father
of Robert I. King of France and stock of the Capets, was killed at
Brissarthe, in Anjou, while giving battle to the Normans.--T.
[51] Charles d'Albert, Connétable Duc de Luynes (1578-1621), was a page
of Henry IV. He curried favour with the Dauphin by his skill in raising
speckled magpies. When the latter succeeded as Louis XIII., he loaded
Luynes with favours and dignities, gave him his duchy and created him
Constable of France. Luynes was on the verge of being disgraced, when
he died, of purples, on the 15th of December 1621.--T.
[52] Concino Concini, later Maréchal Marquis d'Ancre, Baron de Lussigny
(_d._ 1617), was a member of the Household of Marie de' Medici, wife
of Henry IV. After the King's death, he bought the Marquisate of Ancre
and was appointed Governor of Normandy and a marshal of France without
ever having drawn the sword. He was, at the same time, Prime Minister
of Louis XIII.; and he had Richelieu for his private secretary. The
Duc de Luynes contributed towards hastening his downfall and, at last,
the young King ordered his assassination, which took place in the
court-yard of the Louvre on the 14th of April 1617.--T.
[53] MATHURIN RÉGNIER: _Sat._ XIII.; _Macette_, 30:
"Her penitent eye sheds holy water and none other."--T.
[54] "_L'État c'est moi!_ The State is I!"--T.
[55] RACINE: _Athalie_, Act I. Sc. i.:
"O happy day for me!
How gladly would I go my King again to see!"--T.
[56] Théodore Demetrius Prince de Bauffremont-Courtenay (1793-1853).--T.
[57] Anne Laurence de Montmorency, Princesse de Bauffremont-Courtenay
(1802-1860), married to Théodore Prince de Bauffremont on the 6th of
September 1819.--T.
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