[198] Jean Henri Claude Mangin (1786-1835), a noted lawyer and writer on jurisprudence, had been Prefect of Police since 1829.—T.
[199] The Comte de Chabrol-Volvic, brother of the Comte de Chabrol-Croussol, who had been Minister of Finance in the Polignac Cabinet until May 1830.—B.
[200] The Vicomte de Champagny.—B.
[201] Felix Barthe (1795-1863), in December 1830, succeeded Mérilhou as Minister of Public Instruction in the Laffitte Cabinet. In 1831, he became Minister of Justice under Casimir Périer and continued to hold the Seals until the fall of the Broglie Administration in 1834. He was then created a peer of France and President of the Cour des Comptes. Under the Second Empire, Barthe became a senator.—B.
[202] Joseph Mérilhou (1788-1856), Minister of Public Instruction and Public Worship in 1830, and a peer of France in 1837.—B.
[203] The protest was drawn up by Thiers, Châtelain, and Cauchois-Lemaire. Here are the names of the forty-four signatories: Gauja, manager of the National; Thiers, Mignet, Chambolle, Peysse, Albert Stapfer, Dubochet, Rolle, editors of the National; Châtelain, Guyet, Moussette, Avenel, Alexis de Jussieu, J. F. Dupont, editors, and V. de Lapelouse, manager of the Courrier français; Guizard, Dejean, Charles de Rémusat, editors, and Pierre Leroux, manager of the Globe; Anneé, Cauchois-Lemaire and Évariste Dumoulin, editors of the Constitutionnel; Senty, Haussmann, Dussard, Chalas, A. Billard, J. J. Baude, Busoni, Barboux, editors, and Coste, manager of the Temps; Victor Bohain, Nestor Roqueplan, editors of the Figaro; Auguste Fabre and Ader, editors of the Tribune des départements; Plagnol, Levasseur and Fazy, editors of the Révolution; F. Larreguy, editor, and Bert, manager of the Journal du commerce; Léon Pillet, manager of the Journal de Paris; Vaillant, manager of the Sylphe; Sarrans the Younger, manager of the Courrier des électeurs.—B.
[204] There were fourteen of them: Messieurs Bavoux, Bérard, Bernard, de Laborde, Chardel, Daunou, Jacques Lefebvre, Marchai, Mauguin, Casimir Périer, Persil, de Schonen, Vassal and Villemain.—B.
[205] Madame de Courchamp was a sister of the Becquets.—B.
[206] Étienne Becquet (1800-1838), one of the editors of the Débats, is the only one of the two brothers who has left a name.—B.
[207] Jacques Coste (1798-1859), after selling his paper, the Tablettes historiques, remained the declared adversary of the government of the Restoration. He founded the Temps in 1829; it lasted till 1842. The title was again taken by M. Xavier Durrieu in 1849, but this paper lasted only ten months, and lastly, in 1861, by M. A. Nefftzer, who founded the Temps which we know to-day.—B.