[343] At the corner of the Boulevard de la Madeleine and the Rue Louis-le-Grand: the last remnant of the Hôtel de Richelieu, which was almost wholly destroyed during the Revolution. The Pavillon de Hanovre served as a public ball-room.—T.
[344] André Chénier, La Jeune captive (Paris, 1795):
"I do not wish to die so soon."—T.
[345] This letter is dated, "From my retreat at Corbeil, Saturday, 28 September 1797." La Harpe was proscribed after the 18 Fructidor, and found a shelter at Corbeil, where Madame Récamier paid him one visit.—B.
[346] This letter has no further date, but must have been written a few days after the 18 Brumaire.—B.
[347] Lucien Bonaparte, La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (Paris, 1799).
[348] Like the Duc de Laval, another admirer of Madame Récamier, Benjamin Constant disliked dates. His work on Madame Récamier does not contain one. At the end of 1798, Madame de Staël was charged by her father to sell the house which he owned in the Rue du Mont-Blanc, now No. 7, Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin. M. Récamier had long had business-relations with M. Necker, whose banker he was, as well as his daughter's; he bought the house. The deed of sale is dated 25 Vendémiaire Year VII. (16 October 1798).—B.
[349] Later the Duc de Laval-Montmorency, whom Chateaubriand was to replace in Rome.—B.
[350] Madame de Staël's novel of Delphine, which appeared in the autumn of 1802.—B.
[351] "By the voice of the old thou didst praise beauty's charms."—T.