[468] Alexis Louis Joseph Comte de Noailles (1783-1835) had been imprisoned, in 1809, for spreading Pius VII.'s Bull of Excommunication against the authors and accomplices of the usurpation of the Papal States. In May 1814, the Comte de Noailles was Royal Commissary in Lyons.—B.
[469] Madame Charles Lenormant (vide supra p. 180, n. 2).—T.
[470] She arrived in Paris on the 1st of June 1814.—B.
[471] L'Esprit de conquête et d'usurpation dans ses rapports avec la civilisation européenne was published, early in 1814, in Germany, where Benjamin Constant then was; he returned to France with the Bourbons.—B.
[472] The appointment is announced in the Journal de l'Empire of the 6th of April 1815.—B.
[473] In English in the original.—T.
[474] 14 July 1817.—T.
[475] In 1819, Madame Récamier retired to the Abbaye-aux-Bois, where she occupied a small and incommodious apartment on the third storey, with a stone flooring and a stair-case of the most awkward description, which did not prevent its being climbed daily by the greatest ladies of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and by all the leading lights of Paris.—B.
[476] He was implicated in the Bories Affair.—Author's Note.
Charles Coudert, a quarter-master of cavalry, was not implicated in the Bories Affair, but in a military conspiracy against the Government which broke out, in December 1821, at Saumur. Of the eleven accused, eight were acquitted, and Coudert and two others condemned to death, in February 1822. Madame Récamier employed her credit on his behalf and, on the 18th of April, Coudert's sentence was commuted to one of five years' imprisonment.—B.