[217] Jean Henri Joachim Hostein, Vicomte Lainé (1767-1835), became Minister of the Interior in 1816, a member of the French Academy in the same year, and a viscount and peer of France in 1823.—T.
[218] Claire Duchesse de Duras (1777-1829), née de Coëtnempren de Kersaint, married in 1797, in England, Amédée Bretagne Malo de Durfort, who, three years later, on the death of his father, became Duc de Duras. On the return of the Bourbons, the Duc de Duras was made a peer of France and First Lord of the Bed-chamber. The duchess at that time had one of the most popular salons in Paris. She wrote several little novels: Édouard, Ourika, Frère Ange, Olivier, and the Mémoires de Sophie, of which the two first were published in 1820 and 1824 respectively; the other three are still in manuscript. Towards the end of her life, the Duchesse de Duras wrote some eminently Christian pages, which were published, ten years after her death, in 1839, under the title of Réflexions et prières inédites.—B.
[219] Claire Louise Augustine Félicité Magloire de Durfort (b. 1798), known as Félicie, married, first (1813), Charles Léopold Henri de La Trémoille, Prince de Talmont (d. 1815), and, secondly (1819), Brigadier-general Auguste du Vergier, Comte de La Rochejacquelein.—B.
[220] Claire Henriette Philippine Benjamine de Durfort (1799-1863), known as Clara, married (1819) Henri Louis Comte de Chastellux, created Duc de Rauzan on the occasion of his marriage.—B.
[221] In January 1829.—B.
[222] Madame Julie Récamier (1777-1849), née Bernard, of whom much will be read in the sequel, was very intimate with Madame de Staël, and had been banished from Paris by Napoleon for the frequency of her visits to Madame de Staël at Coppet.—T.
[223] The old Cemetière de la Madeleine, at No. 48, Rue d'Anjou-Saint-Honoré.—B.
[224] Pierre François Fontaine (1762-1865), an eminent modern French architect and member of the Academy of Arts, who, together with Percier, quem vide infra, constructed the Expiatory Chapel at the corner of the Rue d'Anjou and the Boulevard Haussmann, mentioned below, and a number of other public works, including the great staircase at the Louvre, the restorations at Versailles, etc.—T
[225] Charles Percier (1764-1840), member of the Institute, and Fontaine's friend and collaborator.—T.
[226] Vide Vol. I. p. 157.—T.