[7] Anne Louis Girodet Trioson, originally Girodet de Roussy (1767-1824), a pupil of David, and not only a fine painter, but also a poet of some merit.—T.
[8] Dominique Vivant Baron Denon (1747-1825), Director-General of Museums under the Empire.—T.
[9] Chateaubriand's portrait was exhibited in the Salon of 1808.—B.
[10] Jean François Boissonade (1774-1857), a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, and a distinguished and indefatigable Hellenist.—T.
[11] Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826), the eminent Danish geographer.—T.
[12] "Each, his hand in th' ink-pot, swears to be revenged."—T.
[13] The crown of grass granted to a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place.—T.
[14] François Bénoît Hoffmann (1760-1828), author of several comic operas, and a successful writer in the Journal des Débats.—T.
[15] Claude Hippolyte Clausel de Montais (1769-1857) became Bishop of Chartres in 1824. He was the first to engage, in March 1841, in the struggle of the bishops in favour of liberty of instruction, which led to the law of 25 March 1850. Thanks to his writings during this contest, Monseigneur Clausel de Montais is one of the most imposing figures in the nineteenth-century episcopate.—B.
[16] Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755). In the Esprit des lois (1748) he treats religion respectfully, but the book was condemned for its deistic tendency.—T.