[390] On arriving at Châlons, she first put up at the inn of the Pomme d'Or, which she soon left to take a small apartment in the Rue du Cloître.—B.
[391] The Château de Montmirail, the magnificent habitation of the La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauvilles, in the Department of the Marne.—B.
[392] M. de Rocca (1784-1818), a young officer eighteen years Madame de Staël's junior. He survived her one year only.—T.
[393] Auguste Louis de Staël Holstein ( 1790-1827), Madame de Staël's eldest son.—B.
[394] This note, of which Chateaubriand does not give the date, was written when Madame de Staël was on the point of setting out from Switzerland for Germany. She left Coppet on the 23rd of May 1812.—B.
[395] Madame de Staël's youngest son was killed in a duel, in 1813.—B.
[396] Madame Récamier left Châlons in June 1812, to go to Lyons to stay with Madame Delphin-Récamier, a sister of her husband's.—B.
[397] The Duchesse de Chevreuse, née Norbonne-Pelet, married to the Duc de Chevreuse, son to the Duc de Luynes. Her father-in-law was compelled to accept a senatorship, in 1803, and she obliged, in 1806, to consent to become one of the Empress Joséphine's ladies. Two years later, when the Spanish Royal Family were arrested, the Emperor wished to place the Duchesse de Chevreuse with the captive Queen; the duchess replied that she could be a prisoner, but would never be a gaoler. This proud answer procured her exile, which eventually resulted in her death.—B.
[398] In the spring of 1813.—B.
[399] Amélie Lenormant, adopted daughter of Madame Récamier, and married to M. Charles Lenormant.—T.