[486] The ex-Queen of Spain was then living in Brussels under the name of Comtesse de Survilliers.—T.
[487] Lieutenant-General Robert Baron Fagel (1771-1856), Netherlands Envoy to the several Courts of France from 1814 to 1854.—T.
[488] DUCHESSE D'ABRANTÈS, Histoire des Salons de Paris. Tableaux et portraits du grande monde, sous Louis XVI., le Directoire, le Consulat et l'Empire, la Restauration et le règne de Louis-Philippe Ier, Vol. VII.—B.
[489] Ex-Lieutenant (not Captain) Roger had taken part with Caron in the Colmar plot. He was condemned to death on the 23rd of February 1823. The penalty was commuted to one of twenty years' penal servitude. He was sent to the convict prison at Toulon and obtained a full pardon at the end of two years.—B.
[490] Lieutenant-Colonel Augustin Joseph Caron (1774-1822), the ringleader of the plot, was sentenced to death, in September 1822, and executed before the Court of Cassation had rejected his appeal.—T.
[491] Gustavus II. Adolphus King of Sweden (1594-1632), the great antagonist of Austria, at that time France's foremost rival.—T.
[492] Purg., Canto VIII., 6.—T.
[493] Daniel Steibelt (1765-1823), a Prussian pianist and composer, came to Paris in 1790. His Romeo and Juliet was performed at the Théâtre de l'Opera-Comique National on the 10th of September 1793, in the midst of the Terror.—B.