[696] The Baronne de Barante, was a daughter of General César Ange de Houdetot, grand-daughter of Madame de Houdetot, Rousseau's friend, and married to Aimable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, Baron de Barante, author of the Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne.—B.
[697] Chateaubriand's tragedy of Moïse was first published in his Complete Works (1826-1831), and has never been performed.—T.
[698] The costly monument to Nicolas Poussin, in the Church of San Lorenzo-in-Lucina, was erected entirely at Chateaubriand's expense and was not fully completed until 1831, when Chateaubriand had again renounced all titles and emoluments and was once more penniless. It took him four years, from 1831 to 1834, to clear his debt to the artist, who was not much richer than himself.—B.
[699] Madame Salvage de Faverolles, daughter of M. Dumorey, the French Consul at Cività-Vecchia, and a devoted friend to Madame Récamier. Subsequently, she attached herself to the Duchesse de Saint-Leu (Queen Hortense of Holland), with whom she lived till her death, and acted as her testamentary executrix.—B.
[700] This incident, to which Chateaubriand has already referred when speaking of Earl Bathurst, took place in March 1824. Miss Bathurst while riding in the Tiber Woods with a numerous and brilliant company of friends, was thrown into the river by a false step of her horse and drowned. She was seventeen years of age and remarkably pretty.—B.
[701] François Marie Pierre Roullet, Baron de La Bouillerie (1764-1833), a peer of France and Steward of the Royal Household.—B.
[702] Augustin Thierry, Lettres sur l'histoire de France, pour servir d'introduction à l'étude de cette histoire. They had appeared in the Courrier français, in 1820, and were first collected and published in book form in 1827.—T.
[703] "Such is the lot of man: his learning grows with age.
But what use to be sage,
When the end is So near?"—T.
[704] The ordinances, or Orders in Council, of the 16th of June 1828. The first declared that the establishments known as secondary ecclesiastical schools and hitherto managed by persons belonging to an unauthorized religious congregation should be subjected to the control of the University of France. The second limited the number of pupils who could be admitted into the seminaries to twenty thousand and generally restricted the liberty of the seminaries, especially in the matter of the conferring of degrees.—B.
[705] Matt. XXII. 17.—T.