"Chateaubriand," he said to me at the Castle of Hradschin, "had you served Bonaparte?"
"Yes, Sire."
"Did you resign on the death of M. le Duc d'Enghien?"
"Yes, Sire."
Misfortune instructs or restores the memory. I have told you how one day in London, when I had taken shelter with M. de Fontanes in a passage during a storm, M. le Duc de Bourbon came and sought cover under the same refuge: in France, his gallant father and he, who so politely thanked whoever wrote a funeral oration on M. le Duc d'Enghien, did not send me one word of remembrance; they were doubtless unaware of my conduct: true, I never told them of it.
[446] This book was commenced in Paris in 1837, continued and completed in Paris in 1838, and revised in February 1845 and December 1846.—T.
[447] The Château du Marais was built by M. Le Maître, a very rich man, who left it to Madame de La Briche, his niece. It stands in the commune of the Val-Saint-Maurice, canton of Dourdan, Department of Seine-et-Oise, and is now the property of the Dowager Duchesse de Noailles.—B.
[448] Adélaïde Edmée de La Briche, née Prévost, widow of Alexis Janvier de La Live de La Briche, Introducer of Ambassadors and Private Secretary to the Queen.—B.
[449] Louise Joséphine Comtesse de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1764-1832), née de La Live de Jully, sister to Madame de Vintimille.—B.