[460] Afterwards Madame de Bérenger.—B.
[461] Louise Julie Talma (d. 1805), née Carreau, married Talma on the 19th of April 1791. They were divorced on the 6th of February 1801 by mutual consent. Talma married next year (16 June 1802) Charlotte Vanhove, the divorced wife of Louis Sébastien Olympe Petit, from whom he was also separated shortly afterwards on the same terms.—B.
[462] Stanislas Marie Adélaïde Comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (1747-1792), a Monarchical member of the Constituent Assembly, butchered by the populace on the 10th of August 1792.—T.
[463] Louis Justin Marie Marquis de Talaru (1769-1850), for some time French Ambassador in Madrid under the Restoration. He was created a peer of France on the same day as Chateaubriand (17 August 1815).—B.
[464] Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803), known as the Unknown Philosopher, the exponent of "pure spiritualism." His principal works are Des Erreurs et de la vérité (1775), the Homme de désir (1790), and the Ministère de l'Homme-Esprit (1802).—T.
[465] Jean Jacques Comte Lenoir-Laroche (1749-1825) held office for a few days in 1797, was a Conservative member of the Senate (1799-1814), was made a count by Napoleon, and a peer of France by Louis XVIII. (4 June 1814). On the 31st of August 1817, this dignity was declared hereditary in his family.—B.
[466] The Abbé Joseph Faria (circa 1755-1819), a native of Goa, and a famous magnetizer. He plays an important part in Monte Cristo, in which Dumas makes him die at the Château d'If. He died, in fact, in Paris.—B.
[467] Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828), a German doctor (naturalized a Frenchman in 1819) who invented the science of craniology, now known as phrenology.—T.
[468] Mon portrait historique et philosophique, M. de Saint-Martin's posthumous work, printed in a very much mutilated and incomplete form.—B.
[469] The Polytechnic School was installed at the time at the Palais-Bourbon, and removed to the building of the former Collège de Navarre in 1804.—B.