[520] "Ah, why do they throw down those columns of the gods,
The work of the great Cæsars, a tutelary shrine?"—T.
[521] The Duchesse de Berry was imprisoned at Blaye Castle in 1833.—T.
[522] In 1797 La Harpe had published his eloquent Du Fanatisme dans la langue révolutionnaire.—B.
[523] This poem appeared in 1814, with the title, Le Triomphe de la Religion, ou le Roi martyr.—B.
[524] "But if they ventured all, 'twas you permitted all:
The viler the oppressor, the more infamous the slave."—T.
[525] On the 9th of August 1797, La Harpe, then a widower and fifty-seven years of age, married, at the instance of his friend M. Récamier, Mademoiselle de Hatte-Longuerue, a very beautiful girl of twenty-three. Her mother, a penniless widow, concealed from the bridegroom any repugnance that Mademoiselle de Longuerue entertained for the match; but three weeks after the marriage the latter declared this repugnance to be invincible, and asked for a divorce. La Harpe behaved like a gallant gentleman and a Christian: he was unable to lend himself to the divorce, forbidden as it was by the religious law; but he allowed it to take place, and forgave the young lady the outcry and scandal produced by this rupture.—B.
[526] Job iv. 15, 16.—T.
[527] Dante, Inferno, xiv. 46.—B.
[528] The Abbé Jacques André Émery (1732-1811), author of the Esprit (later Pensées) de Leibnitz, the Christianisme de Bacon, the Pensées de Descartes, and many other works of a religious tendency.—T.
[529] Joseph Cardinal Comte Fesch, Archbishop of Lyons (1763-1839), was the half-brother of Madame Bonaparte, Napoleon's mother. He was made Archbishop of Lyons in 1802, a cardinal and Ambassador to Rome in 1803, Grand Almoner of the Empire, a count, and a senator in 1805. Later he refused the Archbishopric of Paris, opposed Napoleon's wishes with regard to Pius VII. in 1810, was disgraced and sent into exile in his diocese, where he remained till 1814. After the Emperor's abdication, he retired to Rome, where he lived for twenty-five years, refusing to surrender his archbishopric till the day of his death, 13 May 1839.—T.