[430] Gen., IV., 19.—T.
[431] Isabella II. Queen of Spain (b. 1830 and still living) was made to usurp the throne, in 1833, on the death of Ferdinand VII., when a child of three, by the machinations of her mother, Maria Christina (cf. Vol. III., p. 221, n. 2 and Vol. V., p. 74, n. 4). Queen Isabella was deposed and driven from Spain in 1868, since which time she has resided in Paris.—T.
[432] Victoria Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (cf. Vol. IV., p. 47, n. 2) married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha on the 10th of February 1840, when in her twenty-first year.—T.
[433] Guillaume Anfrie, Abbé de Chaulieu, Les Louanges de la vie champêtre, à Fontenay, en 1707, 71-72:
"O beautiful trees that presided
O'er my birth, you shall soon see me die!"—T.
[434] Varius Avitus Bassianus, known as Heliogabalus, Roman Emperor (205-222) was proclaimed Emperor in 218 and gave himself up to the most extravagant licentiousness. He was killed, in the eighteenth year of his age, by his soldiers, whom his rapacity and debaucheries had irritated.—T.
[435] Lamennais (cf. Vol. I., p. 27, n. 1) had been prosecuted for one of his political writings, the Pays et le Gouvernement, and sentenced, on the 26th of December 1840, to twelve months' imprisonment and a tine of 2,000 francs.—B.
[436] Lamennais' pamphlet had just been published when Chateaubriand was writing these last pages of the Memoirs in the autumn of 1841.—B.
[437] Lamennais was locked up at Sainte-Pélagie from January to December 1841. He here composed his Voix de prison, an admirable little volume containing, beside the furious rage of the pamphleteer, pages of exquisite poetic feeling.—B.
[438] It is interesting in this connection to note that Lamennais was a dwarf in stature and Chateaubriand himself only five feet four inches high.—T.