[237] Ambassador to St. Petersburg in 1824.—T.
[238] The Chevalier de Fontenay, First Secretary of Embassy in St. Petersburg in 1824.—T.
[239] The Vicomte de Pontcarré, Third Secretary of Embassy in St. Petersburg in 1824.—T.
[240] 16 September 1824.—T.
[241] 29 May 1825.—T.
[242] George Keith, tenth Earl Marischal (circa 1693-1778), was sentenced to death for taking up arms for the Chevalier in 1715, took refuge in Spain, whence he commanded the Spanish expedition, was defeated at Glenshiel in 1719, and again fled to Prussia. Frederic II. appointed him Ambassador to Paris in 1751, and Governor of Neuchâtel in 1752. Here, in 1762, he gave his protection to Rousseau. He is generally known on the continent as Milord Maréchal.—T.
[243] "An earthenware cooking-pot, without feet, in which meat is noiselessly cooked, over a stove, the French Huguenots being said to have taken this precaution to avoid scandal on days when flesh-meat was forbidden" (Littré).—B.
[244] The County of Neuchâtel passed in 1707, on the death of Marie Duchesse de Nemours, the last of the Longuevilles, to Frederic I. King of Prussia, to whom it was guaranteed by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. In 1806, Napoleon seized it and erected it into a principality for Marshal Berthier; in 1815, it returned to Prussia, while remaining a Swiss canton. Neuchâtel declared its independence in 1848; this independence was recognised by Prussia in 1857.—T.
[245] Isabelle Agnès de Sainte-Hyacinthe de Charrière (1745-1805), née van Tuyll, author, under the pseudonym of the Abbé de La Tour, of the Lettres Neuchâteloises (1784), Caliste, ou Lettres écrites de Lausanne (1786), etc.—T.
[246] Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), the eminent French critic. His appreciation of Madame de Charrière occurs in his Portraits de femmes, published in 1844.—T.