The ebb-tide, in the absence of the wind, carried us out to sea; the lights of the shore grew smaller and smaller, and disappeared. Exhausted with my reflections, with vague regrets, with even vaguer hopes, I went below to my cabin: I lay down to rest, rocked in my hammock to the sound of the billows which caressed the side of the vessel. The wind rose; the unfurled sails, which hung flapping about the masts, filled out, and when, next morning, I went up on deck, the land of France was out of sight.
Here toy destinies changed: "Again to sea!" as Byron sings.
[218] This book was written in Paris between June and December 1821, and revised in December 1846.—T.
[219] The Moniteur of Sunday 29 April 1821 contains the following, under the heading, Paris, 28 April: "M. le Vicomte de Chateaubriand, French Minister Plenipotentiary in Berlin, arrived in Paris on the day before yesterday." The Duc de Bordeaux was christened at Notre-Dame on the 1st of May 1821.—B.
[220] Villèle left the Cabinet on the 27th of July 1821; Chateaubriand resigned his ambassadorship on the 31st of July.—B.
[221] Marigny has greatly changed since my sister occupied it. It has been sold and now belongs to Messieurs de Pommereul, who nave rebuilt it and much improved it.—Author's Note.
[222] Antoine Auguste Bruzen de Lamartinière (1662-1746), compiler of the Dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique. He was born and spent his youth at Dieppe, and was the nephew of Richard Simon (vide infra).—T.
[223] Richard Simon (1638-1712), an early Rationalist, author of a number of works on the Old and New Testaments, which were promptly condemned by the Holy See.—T.
[224] Jean Pecquet (1610-1674), discoverer of the chyle reservoir or réservoir de Pecquet.—T.