[410] M. Henri Joseph Gisquet.—B.
[411] The juste-milieu was the political system of government which consisted in conciliating all opinions. Louis-Philippe used it (after Montesquieu and others) in replying to a deputation from the town of Gaillac, on the 29th of January, in these words:
"As for our home policy, we shall strive to keep to a juste milieu."
The phrase was very soon turned into one of general derision.—T.
[412] Frédéric Benoît (1813-1832), aged 19, the son of a magistrate at Vouxiers, had been sentenced to death on the eve of Chateaubriand's arrest, 15 June 1832. He had killed his mother, on the night of the 8th of November 1829, and his friend Alexandre Formage, a youth of 17, on the 21st of July 1831.—B.
[413] Richard Lovelace (1618-1658), the Cavalier poet, was imprisoned by the Commons in 1642, subsequently released on £20,000 bail, was abroad from 1646 to 1648 in the French service, taking part in the Siege of Dunkirk, and was again incarcerated on his return to England. He was released once more towards the close of 1649 and spent the remainder of his life in want. His best-known prison poems include his To Althea from Prison and the lines commencing:
Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage.—T.
[414] Jean Baptiste Santeuil (1630-1697), a modern Latin poet, almost as celebrated for his gaiety and eccentricities as for his undoubted poetic talent.—T.
[415] "The coffin sinks down and the unspotted roses."—T.
[416] I omit a poem of sixteen lines, entitled, Jeune fille et jeune fleur, on the death of Eliza Frisell.—T.