[123] Philippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau (1638-1720), a great favourite with Louis XIV., thanks originally to his skill at cards. He accompanied the king as aide-de-camp in all his campaigns. Dangeau had a great reputation for wit and learning, and, although he had published nothing, was admitted a member of the French Academy in 1668. He left manuscript Memoirs from which extracts were published by Voltaire (1770), Madame de Genlis (1817) and Lemontey (1818); but the whole, entitled Journal de la cour de Louis XIV., first appeared in 1858.—T.
[124] Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (circa 1619—circa 1700) left Memoirs which were first published by M. Monmerqué in 1834, under the title of Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, forming a crowd of curious and cynical anecdotes.—T.
[125] Karl August Prince von Hardenberg (1750-1822), born in Hanover, entered the Prussian service in 1790, and became Foreign Minister in 1806, and State Chancellor in 1810. He signed the Treaty of Paris in 1814, in which year the King of Prussia made him a prince, and took part as plenipotentiary in all the important congresses of the time.
[126] David Friedrich Koreff (1783-1851), a famous German doctor, for some time secretary to Prince von Hardenberg.—B.
[127] Hyacinthe Pilorge, Chateaubriand's secretary.—B.
[128] Karl Ludwig Sand (1795-1819), a student of the University of Jena, who had assassinated August von Kotzebue, the famous writer, on the 23rd of March 1819, at Mannheim. Kotzebue was regarded as the tool of absolutism by Young Germany. He was the father of the Captain Otto von Kotzebue mentioned above in connection with Chamisso.—B.
[129] Prince George of Cumberland, late George V. King of Hanover (1819-1878), succeeded to the throne of Hanover in 1851. In 1866, his kingdom was annexed by Prussia. King George, who was totally blind, married, in 1843, the Princess Mary of Saxe-Altenburg. Her Majesty is still living (1902) at Gmunden, in Upper Austria.—T.
[130] Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India (1819-1901), the last sovereign of the house of Brunswick-Lüneburg, succeeded to the throne in 1837 and, in 1840, married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who died in 1861.—T.
[131] 19 April 1821. Chateaubriand had gone to Paris to attend the baptism of the Duc de Bordeaux.—B.
[132] George.—Author's Note.