[390] The Journal de la Ville et des Provinces, ou, le Modérateur, edited by M. de Fontanes, first appeared 1 October 1789.—B.
[391] Jacques Mallet-Dupan (1749-1800), political editor of the Mercure de France. He left France in 1792, returned first to his native city, Geneva, and then settled in London, where he founded the Mercure britannique (1799).—T.
[392] The Chevalier de Champcenetz (1759-1794), one of the wittiest Royalist partisans under the Revolution; arrested and murdered in 1794.—T.
[393] Antoine Comte de Rivarol (1753-1801), a brilliant and caustic wit.—T.
[394] The wife of Le Jay the bookseller, Mirabeau's publisher.—B.
[395] Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803), author of Les Liaisons dangereuses, editor of the Journal des amis de la Constitution, and secretary to the Duc d'Orléans. He served as an artillery-general in the Army of Italy.—T.
[396] Armand Louis de Gontaut-Biron, Duc de Lauzun (1747-1793), son of the Duc de Biron, to whose title he succeeded in 1788. He fought on the American side in the War of Independence, and served as a general in the republican armies until his arrest and execution, 31 December 1793.—T.
[397] The two brothers Arthur Comte de Dillon and Theobald de Dillon, both fought in the republican campaigns. Arthur was executed in 1794, Theobald killed in 1792 by his soldiers, who believed that he was betraying them.—T.
[398] Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), Bishop of Autun, created Prince de Bénévent by Bonaparte m 1806, Duc de Talleyrand and Duc de Dino by Louis XVIII. in 1817.—T.
[399] Pierre Victor Baron de Besenval (1722-1791), whose Memoirs were published in 1805-1807 by the Vicomte de Ségur, but were disowned by the baron's family.—T.