[68] M. Fuscaldo.—Author's Note.
The Conte Fuscaldo was Neapolitan Ambassador to Rome.—B.
[69] M. Bellocq was First Secretary of the Embassy.—B.
[70] M. Desmousseaux de Givré (b. 1794) had served under Chateaubriand in London in 1822. He resigned on the accession of the Polignac Ministry, and re-entered the Diplomatic Service after 1830. Desmousseaux de Givré sat in the Chamber of Deputies, as a Conservative, from 1837 to 1848, and in the Legislative Assembly from 1849 to 1851, when he retired into private life.—B.
[71] Wis. II. 2.—T.
[72] Francis IV. Duke of Modena (1779-1847).
[73] Charles Albert King of Sardinia (1798-1849) ascended the throne on the death of his kinsman, King Charles Felix, in 1831.—T.
[74] The Duke of Modena defended himself against this accusation. Cf. Marcellus, Chateaubriand et son temps, p. 363, where the matter is explained.—B.
[75] The Cardinal-Archbishop of Toulouse had sprained a sinew on alighting from his carriage after crossing the Arno. This accident delayed him for several days at Siena, and caused him to be the last of the French cardinals to enter the Conclave (Marcellus, Chateaubriand et son temps, p. 358).—B.
[76] Prince Paul Charles Frederic Augustus of Wurtemberg (1785-1852), son of Frederic I. King of Wurtemberg, brother of William I. and father of the Grand-duchess Helen of Russia.—T.