The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) / Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1

by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand

[46] "A sparrow-hawk loved a warbler fair.
And, it is said, was loved by her." —T.

[47] "Is the fable obscure, Trémigon?
Derry down!"—T.

[48] Their correct name was Loisel de La Villedeneu.—B.

[49] Marie Antoine Bénigne de Bedée, Comte de La Bouëtardais (1727-1807), younger brother to Madame de Chateaubriand.—B.

[50] The Château de Monchoix is in the parish of Pluduno, now one of the communes of the Canton of Plancoët, Arrondissement of Dinan, and is inhabited by M. du Boishamon, the Comte de Bedée's great-grandson.—B.

[51] Marie Angélique Fortunée Cécile Ginguené (1729-1823), daughter of Écuyer François Ginguené and of Dame Thérèse Françoise Jean. She married the Comte de Bedée on the 23rd of November 1756.—B.

[52] 1339-1442.—T.

[53] I omit eleven lines of quotation and their translation.—T.

[54] VIR., Æn. I. 184.—T.

[55] St. Aaron the Hermit is honoured on the 22nd of June.—T.