[247] Characters in the Lettres Neuchâteloises.—B.
[248] Louis Fauche-Borel (1762-1829), a Neuchâtel printer and Royalist agent. He devoted himself to the cause of the Bourbons and was repeatedly imprisoned under the Directorate and Consulate. He met with nothing but ingratitude from the Restoration and returned to Neuchâtel, where he lived in penury and at last put an end to his life in the manner stated by Chateaubriand.—T.
[249] Louis Comte de Pourtalès (1773-1848), Governor of Neuchâtel.—B.
[250] Clovis King of the Franks (465-511), founder of the French Monarchy, embraced Christianity and was baptised and crowned at Rheims at the hands of St. Remy, in 496.—T.
[251] Charles VII. King of France (1403-1461), surnamed the Victorious, defeated the English with the aid of Joan of Arc in 1429, and was crowned at Rheims in the same year.—T.
[252] Joan of Arc (1410-1431) was present at the coronation of Charles VII. on the 17th of July 1429. She was subsequently captured by the English and burned by them at the stake, on the 30th of May 1431, at Rouen.—T.
[253] "I have come from my country
No taller than a boot,
With-a mi, with-a mi,
With-a my marmot."—T.
[254] "Ah, what will they say from the dust of the grave.
The generous spirits of sovereigns brave?
What will Pharamond say, Clodion and Clovis,
Our Pepins, our Martels, our Charleses and Louis,
Who by blood and by peril, a warrior band,
Have acquired for their sons such a beautiful land?"—T.
[255] Pepin King of the Franks (d. 768), surnamed the Short, founder of the Second or Carlovingian Dynasty.—T.
[256] 28 May 1825.—T.