Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840

9

Marie Christine, Princess of Savoy, died in giving birth to the prince who was afterwards Francis II., the last King of Naples.

10

The author of these memoirs.

11

The sentence which condemned Fieschi, Pépin, and Morey to death. They were executed at the Barrière Saint-Jacques on February 19.

12

The Cabinet was as follows: M. Thiers, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Sauzet, Keeper of the Seals; M. de Montalivet, Minister of the Interior; M. d'Argout, Financial Minister; M. Passy, Minister of Commerce and Public Works; M. Pelet de la Lozère, Minister of Education; Marshal Maison, Minister of War; Admiral Duperré, Minister of Naval Affairs.

13

Extract from a letter.

14

Prince Charles of Naples, brother of the Duchesse de Berry, was the nephew of Queen Marie Amélie.

15

Reference is here made to an action for divorce brought against Mrs. Norton by her husband, which made a great stir in England at this time. The intimacy of Mrs. Norton with Lord Melbourne was well known. However, the verdict given in the following June acquitted Lord Melbourne, but Mrs. Norton and her husband separated.

16

This work was published after the death of the Comte de Rémusat in 1878, by his son Paul.

17

This plan was not entirely carried out; the Abbé alone was buried at Saint-Patrice.

18

The Princess Louise was the daughter of Prince Ferdinand of Prussia, the youngest brother of Frederick the Great. She married Prince Antoine Radziwill in 1796.

19

Queen Wilhelmina of the Low Countries was the daughter of King Frederick William II. of Prussia, and sister of the king then reigning, Frederick William III.

20

M. Bresson was the French Minister at Berlin.

21

Princess Albert of Prussia was a princess of the Low Countries.

22

We have been unable to find them.

23

An estate belonging to the Duchesse de Dino in Silesia.

24

Princess Metternich had used some discourteous terms concerning the assumption of the crown by Louis-Philippe in 1830.

25

The Liberal ideas of the Archduke Charles had induced Prince Metternich to remove this prince from the Court and to regard him with suspicion. They had almost quarrelled.

26

Extract from a letter.

27

Daughter of the Marshal of Albuféra.

28

Yolande de Valençay.

29

The Baroness of Mengden, niece of the Princesse de Lieven, afterwards lived at Carlsruhe, where she was abbess of a noble chapter. She was very tall, especially in the upper part of her body, and any one seated by her side at dinner was obliged to raise his head in order to see her face. As she was very good-natured, she became to some extent her aunt's drudge; at Valençay, when the Princesse de Lieven stayed there, she gave her niece her jewel-box to keep when she was out driving, so that the Baroness of Mengden could rarely take part in these excursions.

30

French Ambassador at St. Petersburg.

31

On the evening of June 25, 1836, a young man aged twenty-six, named Louis Alibaud, shot at the king in the court of the Tuileries when Louis-Philippe was reviewing the National Guard and the drummers were beating a march.

32

English Ambassador at Constantinople.

33

Reis Effendi was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Turkey.

34

The widow of Napoleon I.

35

Sieyès died at Paris, June 28, 1836.

36

General Fagel had been the ambassador of the King of the Low Countries in France under the Restoration.

37

M. Decazes then acted as chief referendary to the Chamber of Peers.

38

A violent newspaper quarrel brought about a meeting between Armand Carrel, editor of Le National, and Emile de Girardin, editorLa Presse. A pistol duel took place on July 28 in the wood of Vincennes. Armand Carrel was severely wounded in the stomach, and died the next day, after expressing a definite wish for burial in a cemetery without any Church service.

39

In the month of June 1836 a conflagration, supposed to be caused by the carelessness of some plumbers, completely destroyed the chestnut beam-work of the cathedral, which was the admiration of visitors and was known as "the Forest." A great number of old windows were broken or melted, and the bells were seriously damaged. For several hours the fire threatened to spread to the whole of the lower town. The important work of repair lasted for several years.

40

The Comte Paul de Périgord.

41

M. Thiers.

42

The institution of the famous Madame Campan, now the school of Ecouen.

43

French Ambassador in Spain.

44

This estate was the Val Richer, where M. Guizot lived until his death.

45

The Ministry was composed as follows: M. Molé, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Guizot, Minister of Public Instruction; M. Persil, Minister of Justice; M. Duchâtel, Financial Minister; M. de Gasparin, Minister of the Interior, with M. de Rémusat as Under-Secretary of State; M. Martin du Nord, Minister of Commerce and Public Works; General Bernard, Minister of War; and Admiral Rosamel, Minister of Naval Affairs.

46

See above, p. 63.

47

St. Maurice was the patron saint of the Prince de Talleyrand.

48

This note upon Valençay was printed in 1848 by Crapelet, Rue de Vaugirard, at Paris, with the dedication to which the author here refers. This curious work is quoted by Larousse in his great "Dictionnaire universel du Dix-neuvième Siècle," under "Valençay." It has become scarce, but several copies exist.

49

The Obelisk of Luxor was given to King Louis-Philippe by Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. It was removed from its place before the Temple of Luxor, carried to Paris, and erected in the Place de la Concorde in 1836.

50

With the Comtesse Camille de Sainte-Aldegonde.

51

On October 26, 1836, Prince Louis Bonaparte, accompanied by his friend M. de Persigny, and supported by Colonel Vaudrey, attempted to begin a military revolt and to overthrow the king, Louis-Philippe.

52

Afterwards Napoleon III.

53

Charles X. had just died at Goritz, in Austria, on November 6, 1836.

54

The Queen of Portugal had been forced, after several outbreaks, to accept the Radical Constitution of 1820. In November she began a counter-revolution, helped by Palmella, Terceira, and Saldanha, believing, at the instigation of England, that the population of Lisbon would support her, and proposing to dismiss her Ministers. She had been wrongly informed concerning the popular feeling, and was forced to abandon the struggle.

55

M. de Polignac, who was a prisoner at Ham, had demanded from M. Molé his transference to a sanatorium.

56

His punishment had been commuted to perpetual banishment.

57

The Ministry was composed as follows: M. Molé, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Barthe, Minister of Justice; M. de Montalivet, Minister of the Interior; M. Lacave-Laplagne, Financial Minister; M. de Salvandy, Minister of Public Instruction. General Bernard, Admiral de Rosamel, and M. Martin du Nord retained their portfolios; M. de Rémusat, Under-Secretary of State, followed his Minister into retirement.

58

Marianne Leopoldine, Archduchess of Austria-Este, born in 1771, married the Elector Charles Theodore of Bavaria. After her husband's death she married the Grand Master of his Court, the Comte Louis Arco. This princess died in 1848.

59

On December 27, 1836, at the opening of the Parliamentary session, another attempt was made upon the life of King Louis-Philippe as he was driving to the Palais Bourbon with three of his sons. The criminal was Meunier, a young man aged twenty-two, who was condemned to death by the Chamber of Peers; but the King eventually secured a commutation of his penalty to perpetual banishment on the occasion of the marriage of the Duc d'Orléans.

60

The birthday of Louis-Philippe.

61

This embassy of honour was sent to meet the royal bride; the meeting took place at Fulda on May 22, 1837.

62

The reference is to a law concerning the estimates for the secret police fund.

63

The Comte de Lezay-Marnesia.

64

The Comtesse de Lobau.

65

On the occasion of the marriage of the Duc d'Orléans an amnesty was granted by ordinance dated May 8 to all who were in prison for crimes or political delinquencies.

66

Fräulein Sidonie von Dieskau, of whom mention will be made later on the occasion of the Duchesse de Talleyrand's journey to Germany.

67

Baron Werther was Prussian Minister at Paris from 1824.

68

Comte Lehon was Belgian Minister.

69

Mgr. Gallard.

70

His Excellency Mohammed Nouri Effendi.