[349] Albertine Adrienne Necker de Saussure (1766-1841), daughter to Horace Bénédicte de Saussure, the naturalist, and cousin to Madame de Staël. Madame Necker was the author of the Éducation progressive, ou Étude du cours de la vie, which was crowned by the French Academy in 1839.—B.
[350] Delphine Gay, later Madame Émile de Girardin (1804-1855), daughter of Madame Sophie Gay, and married to Émile de Girardin in 1831. She was the author of a number of comedies, novels and poems, and of Lettres parisiennes, contributed to the Presse from 1836 to 1848.—T.
[351] I omit this poem of nine stanzas, entitled the Naufragé.—T.
[352] The Pâquis are a quarter of Geneva stretching along the right bank of the lake from the Rue du Mont-Blanc to near the Lausanne road.—B.
[353] Alexandre César Comte de Lapanouze (1764-1836) was a captain in the Navy at the time of the Revolution, resigned, and found himself completely ruined. Under the Second Restoration, he founded a banking-house in Paris which soon became one of the most important in the Capital. He was a deputy from 1822 to 1827, supported the Villèle Administration and, in 1827, was created a peer of France. Lapanouze retired from politics after the events of July and withdrew to his estate of Tiregant in Gascony.—B.
[354] Cristina Principessa Belgiojoso (1808-1871), née Trivulzio. She settled in early life in Paris, where she was noted for her wit and beauty and the independence of her opinions and her life. She became the friend of many celebrated writers, particularly of Alfred de Musset. In 1848, she flung herself with ardour into the revolutionary movement, hastened to Milan, which had risen in revolt, and furnished a battalion of volunteers at her own cost. She was the author of a number of works of travel and history, and, according to Balzac, was the original of the Duchesse de San-Severino in de Stendhal's Chartreuse de Parme.—B.
[355] Ferney is a village about four miles from Geneva, in which Voltaire resided from 1758 to 1778.—T.
[356] Cf. Voltaire: Zaïre, in which tragedy Orosmane is the name of the Sultan of Jerusalem.—T.
[357] François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville (1770-1838), a noted French traveller and historian, author of a Voyage en Morée et à Constantinople (1805), a Voyage en Grèce (1820-1822), an Histoire de la régénération de la Grèce (1825) and other works.—T.
[358] Armand Carrel had published in the Revue française (March and May 1828) some remarkable articles on Spain and the war of 1823, describing the Minan and Catalonian Campaigns and the adventures of the Liberal Foreign Legion.—B.