[75] Lucius Æmilius Paulus Macedonicus (228-160 B.C.), elected Consul in 182 and 168, defeated Perseus in 167 B.C., and subdued Macedonia.—T.
[76] Perseus, the last King of Macedon (d. 167 B.C.), adorned his conqueror's triumph and allowed himself to die of starvation in his prison in Rome.—T.
[77] Marie-Louise Empress of the French (1791-1847), daughter of the Emperor Francis I., had been married to Napoleon on the 1st of April 1810.—T.
[78] Francis Charles Joseph Napoleon Duc de Reichstadt (1811-1832), created King of Rome on his birth (20 March).—T.
[79] Marie Françoise Sophie Gay (1776-1852), née Nichault de Lavalette, author of Léonie de Montbreuse, Anatolie, the Salons célèbres and other successful and distinguished works, and mother of Madame Émile de Girardin.—T.
[80] An epigram from the Anthology. The bird to which the Greek poet addressed it is the nightingale, "too great a friend of the author's," as M. de Marcellus very neatly observes, "for him to dare to call it by its name when about to speak ill of it."—B.
[81] 4 September 1812.—B.
[82] In a pamphlet entitled, Réponse aux attaques dirigées contre M. de Chateaubriand.—B.
[83] Damaze de Raymond died on the 27th of February 1813, in a duel resulting from a quarrel at the gaming-table.—B.
[84] Cf. Vol. II. p. 116.—T.