[29] The Baroness of Mengden, niece of the Princesse de Lieven, afterwards lived at Carlsruhe, where she was abbess of a noble chapter. She was very tall, especially in the upper part of her body, and any one seated by her side at dinner was obliged to raise his head in order to see her face. As she was very good-natured, she became to some extent her aunt's drudge; at Valençay, when the Princesse de Lieven stayed there, she gave her niece her jewel-box to keep when she was out driving, so that the Baroness of Mengden could rarely take part in these excursions.
[30] French Ambassador at St. Petersburg.
[31] On the evening of June 25, 1836, a young man aged twenty-six, named Louis Alibaud, shot at the king in the court of the Tuileries when Louis-Philippe was reviewing the National Guard and the drummers were beating a march.
[32] English Ambassador at Constantinople.
[33] Reis Effendi was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Turkey.
[34] The widow of Napoleon I.
[35] Sieyès died at Paris, June 28, 1836.
[36] General Fagel had been the ambassador of the King of the Low Countries in France under the Restoration.
[37] M. Decazes then acted as chief referendary to the Chamber of Peers.
[38] A violent newspaper quarrel brought about a meeting between Armand Carrel, editor of Le National, and Emile de Girardin, editorLa Presse. A pistol duel took place on July 28 in the wood of Vincennes. Armand Carrel was severely wounded in the stomach, and died the next day, after expressing a definite wish for burial in a cemetery without any Church service.