[46] The Abbé Delille.—B.
[47] "Be reassured, immortality's yours:" a line from Delille's Dithyrambe sur l'immortalité de l'âme, written during the Terror.—T.
[48] M. de Fontanes.—B.
[49] M. Suard.—B.
[50] The Abbé Morellet, who, in 1795, had published two eloquent appeals in favour of the victims of the Revolution, the Cri des familles and the Cause des pères.—B.
[51] Lieutenant-General Louis Philippe Comte de Ségur (1753-1830), a very intelligent writer. After going through the American War with Lafayette, he was sent as Ambassador to Russia, while still a very young man, returned to France on the outbreak of the Revolution, lived on his pen and was admitted to the Academy. Napoleon made him his Grand-Master of Ceremonies and a senator; under the Restoration, he was created a peer of France.—T.
[52] Philippe Henri Maréchal Marquis de Ségur (1724-1801) was badly wounded at the battle of Klosterkamp, in 1760.-T.
[53] Philippe Paul Comte de Ségur, author of the Campagne de Russie, was riddled with bullets at the Battle of Sommo-Sierra (1808), and refused to cease fighting until he swooned in the arms of his grenadiers.—B.
[54] The Abbé Sicard.—B.
[55] Henri Cardin Jean Baptiste Comte d'Aguesseau (1746-1826).—B.