[79] Baron Louis died at Vry-sur-Marne, near Paris, on August 26, 1837.
[80] Francis Macdonald had been appointed Minister of War at Naples by King Murat in 1814.
[81] Princess Louisa of Baden, the eldest daughter of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, had married a Prince Wasa. Her household was constantly disturbed by quarrels, which the Grand Duchess was continually trying to heal, though for a long time without success.
[82] The Archbishop of Cologne and the Prussian Government differed on the question of mixed marriages. The Archbishop wished to appeal to the Pope, and the Government had him arrested on November 28, 1837. He remained a prisoner for four years at Minden, and never re-entered his diocese, where his coadjutor took his place on his death in 1845. The Archbishop of Cologne, Baron Droste de Vischering, was born in 1773.
[83] The Duchesse de Dino suffered from a much more severe illness than she relates. It is to this period that she ascribed those inward changes which then took place in the case of M. de Talleyrand, and gradually brought him back to the Christian faith.
[84] A book recently published by M. Jean Hanotau, Letters of Prince Metternich to the Comtesse de Lieven (1818-1819), shows that it was Prince Metternich who set these two ladies against one another.
[85] M. de Flahaut and General Baudrand were in constant rivalry with one another. They were continually quarrelling about their official duties in attendance upon the Duc d'Orléans, and in February 1838 they were intriguing to be sent to the coronation of Queen Victoria.
[86] For the speech of M. de Talleyrand see [III] Appendix.
[87] The Abbé de Ravignan had taken the place of Lacordaire in the pulpit of Notre-Dame.
[88] The reference is to the letter which the Prince de Talleyrand wrote to Rome retracting the errors of his life, which had incurred the censure of the Church.