FOOTNOTES:
[104] The expenses of this banquet amounted to nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-five livres. (Archives of Mons.)
[105] Oh Richard! oh my King! the whole world forsakes thee.
[106] Villeneuve Laroche, Memoirs on Quiberon.
[107] On the 11th June 1792 the inauguration of the Emperor François II. took place at Mons. By letters patent granted at Vienna on the 19th March, the new Emperor had authorised the Duc Albert de Saxe-Teschen to represent him in this ceremony, and to take the customary oaths in his name. The Duke Albert having in his turn appointed the Prince de Ligne, Grand Bailiff of Hainault, to perform these duties, the latter conferred the honour on Prince Charles, his eldest son. (Note communicated by M. Deviller, keeper of the records at Mons.)
[108] The hôtel de Ligne was on the Rue de la Grosse Pomme, it is now a hospital for incurables.
[109] The Archduke Charles-Louis, born in 1771, and youngest brother of the Emperor François, was one of the best Austrian generals during Napoleon’s wars; it is rather curious to study the outset of his military career.
[110] Moniteur, “Sitting of the Convention,” Thursday evening, 27th September 1792.
[111] Forty years ago, at Mons, there were old men who remembered Prince Charles’s death as an event which afflicted the whole city.