[135] St. Paul's Without the Walls, a fourth-century basilica, was burnt down in 1823.—T.
[136] Caius Plinius Cæcilius Secundus (62-113), known as Pliny the Younger, to distinguish him from his uncle, Pliny the Elder. He is the author of the Epistles and of a Eulogy of Trajan.—T.
[137] Melmoth's Pliny the Younger, Book I., Letter 24: To Maximus.—T.
[138] Justus Lipsius.—Author's Note.
[139] Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata.—Author's Note.
[140] Cary's Dante: Paradise, Canto XI., 46-56, 59-69.—T.
[141] Chateaubriand returned to Paris on the 28th of May 1829. The subsequent pages, to the end of Book XIII., were written in Paris, in the Rue d'Enfer, in August and September 1830.—B.
[142] Madame Giuditta Pasta (1798-1865), née Negri, the Italian-Jewish opera-singer, who was one of the leading sopranos in Paris and Italy from 1819 until about 1835.—T.
[143] The Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Comte Sieyès (1748-1836), the framer of constitutions, was Ambassador to Berlin in 1798-1799, a member of the Directory 1799 and, provisionally, a Consul. Bonaparte made him a senator and, later, a count of the Empire. He was exiled at the Restoration, and lived in Brussels until the Revolution of 1830, when he returned to Paris.—B.
[144] M. de Martignac was appointed head of the Duc d'Angoulême's political council on the outbreak of the Spanish War, and received the title of Civil Commissary to the Army in Spain.—B.