[568] Greek Anthology, VII. 346.—B.
[569] M. de Fontanes' friendship goes much too far: Madame de Beaumont knew me better; she no doubt felt that, if she had left me her fortune, I should not have accepted it.—Author's Note.
[570] Madame de Beaumont left her books to Chateaubriand in her will, dated Paris, 15 May 1802.—B.
[571] The words italicized are in English.—T.
[572] Baron Matthieu de Staël, Madame de Staël's second son, who died while still very young.—T.
[573] In 1802, for her opposition to Bonaparte.—T.
[574] Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Baron von Humboldt (1767-1835), the eminent Prussian diplomatist and philologist, and the friend and correspondent of all the literary eminences of his time.—T.
[575] John xi. 44.—T.
[576] The Lettre à M. de Fontanes, on the Roman Campagna, is dated to January 1804, and first appeared in the Mercure de France, in its issue of March 1804.—B.
[577] Rome, December 1803.—B.