[230] François Joseph Maximilien Gérard Comte de Rayneval (1778-1836), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, in 1824, and, subsequently, Ambassador to Vienna and, under Louis-Philippe, to Madrid.—T.
[231] Chevalier de Bourgoing, First Secretary, and M. Adolphe Billecocq, Second Secretary of Legation in 1824.—T.
[232] Ambassador to Vienna in 1824.—T.
[233] Ambassador to Lisbon in 1824.—T.
[234] French Secretary of Legation at the Hague in 1824.—T.
[235] One year later, on the 3rd of July 1825, Hyde de Neuville, in his turn, informed his friend Chateaubriand that his embassy had been taken from him:
"My noble friend,
"You announced to me your departure from the ministry. I, in my turn, inform you that I am no longer ambassador.
"They strike me because I have followed you. So much the better, that will rivet our bonds of friendship; praise God and bless the King!
"The King can do wrong.
"Entirely yours,
"Hyde de Neuville."
He received the following reply:
"Bravo, my dear friend; let them blame men like you, and they will not go far. I cannot offer you, in quarterly payments, the five thousand francs which you had placed at my disposal; but I have still a few china plates at your service, and if you want them we will sell them.
"Poor France!
"Yours more than ever,
"Chateaubriand."—B.
[236] Ambassador to Naples in 1824.—T.