[177] The Conservateur was founded by Chateaubriand in October 1818, with the motto, Le Roi, la Charte et les Honnêtes Gens. Some of Chateaubriand's most perfect work is to be found in this collection, and the other writers included the Abbé de Lamennais, the Vicomte de Bonald, Fiévée, Berryer the Younger, Eugène Genoude, the Vicomte de Castelbajac, the Marquis d'Herbouville, M. Agier, the Cardinal de La Luzerne, the Duc de FitzJames, &c. The Conservateur ceased to appear in March 1820 in consequence of the revival of the censorship.—B.
[178] Cf. the Mémoires sur la vie et la mort de Monseigneur le Duc de Berry (April 1820).—T.
[179] Chateaubriand was appointed, by an Order in Council of 28 November 1820, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Prussia.—B.
[180] Frederic William II. (1744-1797), the nephew and successor of Frederic the Great—T.
[181] Dorothea Princess of Courlande (1795-1862) married in 1810 the Comte Edmond de Périgord, nephew to Talleyrand, who abandoned to him his title of Duc de Dino. The duke subsequently came into the title of Duc de Talleyrand-Périgord, by which the duchess was known at the time of her death.—B.
[182] The Comte Roger de Caux and the Chevalier de Cussy.—B.
[183] Now Emperor and Empress of Russia.—Authors Note (Paris, 1832).
Nicholas I. (1796-1855) married Charlotte, daughter of King Frederick William III. of Prussia. He ascended the Russian throne in 1825, on the death of his eldest brother, the Tsar Alexander I., and by virtue of the renunciation, for himself and his heirs, of the Grand-Duke Constantine.—T.
[184] I have inserted the life of my sister Julie in the supplement to these Memoirs.—Author's Note. This life, extracted from the Abbé Carron's Vie des justes, I omit. It will be found in the last series of the Vie des justes, entitled, Dans les plus hauts rangs de la société. The Abbé Guy Toussaint Julien Carron (1760-1820) was the founder of the Institut Royal de Marie-Thérèse, established under the patronage of the Duchesse d'Anjoulême for the daughters of families which had lost their fortune in the Revolution, in addition to a number of charitable institutions founded during the Emigration at Somers Town, to which Chateaubriand refers infra.-T.
[185] St. Julia, Virgin and Martyr (22 May), was born at Carthage, and died for the Faith in Corsica, circa 439.—T.