FOOTNOTES:

[32] The volumes printed at Bel Œil are extremely rare and much in demand. M. Adolphe Gaiffe is in possession of one of the two known copies of the Chevalier de l’Isle’s poems. From a memorandum left by the Princess, we believe that part of her childhood’s Memoirs was printed by her husband at Bel Œil.

[33] A catalogue of them was made by Adam Bartsch in 1794; it contained six thousand numbers.

[34] Son of Augustus III., King of Poland; and Field-Marshal in the Austrian army. He was born on 11th July 1738, and married, on 8th April 1766, Marie-Christine-Josepha-Jeanne-Antoinette, sister of the Emperor Joseph, born on 13th May 1742. She died in 1798, and the Archduke Albert in 1822.

[35]

To Hélène.

A dark mist

Concealed our road;

We wandered in the open air,

But at last we reach our goal,