[305] I omit six lines of verse.—T.
[306] La Fayette was married to Mademoiselle de Noailles on the 11th of April 1774; she died in 1807.—T.
[307] La Fayette's tomb is in one corner of the little Picpus Cemetery, near the Avenue de Saint-Mandé. At the end of the Picpus Cemetery is the Cimetière des guillotinés, where 1300 victims of the Revolution, executed at the Barrière du Trône, are interred. These include André Chénier, Lavoisier, General Beauharnais and many other bearers of noted names.—T.
[308] The Duc de Montmorency-Laval died in 1826.—T.
[309] A sort of cakes.—T.
[310] M. Dupin the Elder.—B.
[311] Georges de La Fayette.—Author's Note.
Georges Washington de La Fayette (1779-1849), La Fayette's only son and a godson of Washington, sat in the Chamber of Deputies, on the Extreme Left, from 1827 to 1849.—T.
[312] Chateaubriand is wrong. The notice of Ambroise, a comic opera by Monvel and Nicolas Dalayrac occcurs in the Gazette nationale, ou Le Moniteur universel of the 22nd of January 1793! but the report of the execution of Louis XVI. appears in the issue of the next day, Wednesday 23 January, two days after the tragedy took place. Immediately after the report comes this paragraph:
"That excellent patriot, Lepelletier Saint-Fargeau, member of the Convention, was assassinated on Sunday at a tavern-keeper's, in the Palais ci-devant Royal, by a former body-guard called Paris. The details of the crime were communicated to the National Convention; they will be found in the report of Monday's sitting."