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[Footnote 531: I omit a stanza of eight lines quoted from Régnier-Desmarais.--T.]
[Footnote 532: George Neville, Archbishop of York (_circa_ 1433-1476), a younger brother of Warwick the King-maker. He was Lord Chancellor from 1460 to 1467 and became Archbishop of York in 1465.--T.]
[Footnote 533: There is a play upon words here which I cannot render: _butor_, in French means a bittern and also a booby, a block-head, a dolt.--T.]
[Footnote 534: _Cf._ the _Lettre à M. de Fontanes._--B.]
[Footnote 535: Johann Kepler (1571-1630), the German astronomer, inventor of the laws of planetary motion known as Kepler's Laws and author of _De Motibus Stella Martis_ (1609).--T.]
[Footnote 536: Copernicus (1473-1543), the founder of modern Astronomy and author of _De Orbium Cœlestium Revolutionibus_ (1543).--T.]
[Footnote 537: Karl Count von Chotek (1783-1868) was appointed Governor of the Tyrol in 1819, Court Chancellor in 1825 and Grand Burgrave of Bohemia in 1826; he retained this post until 1843.--T.
The Marquis de Villeneuve speaks of Count von Chotek as follows, in his Memoirs on Charles X. in exile:
"His title of Grand Burgrave corresponds in its functions with those of our prefects, with less additional burdens and less diversity in the matter of details. But his prefecture was a whole kingdom. He ruled four millions of inhabitants. Although he possessed an immense fortune, he occupied a modest house. His political opinions bore a strong impress of Liberalism."--B.]
[Footnote 538: Friedrich von Gentz (1764-1832), a German publicist and diplomatist (_Cf._ Vol. III. p. 79, n. 1), first in the Prussian and, later, in the Austrian service, was Chief secretary at the Congresses of Vienna (1814-1815), Aix-la-Chapelle (1818), Carlsbad and Vienna (1819), Troppau (1820), Laibach (1821) and Verona (1822).--T.]
[Footnote 539: The Duc de Blacas d'Aulps (_cf._ Vol. III. p. 100, n. 1) had followed King Charles X. into exile and exercised a preponderating influence over the little Court in Prague. He died in Prague on the 17th of November 1839.--B.]
[Footnote 540: Anne Hyacinthe Maxence Baron de Damas (1785-1862) was only six years old when he emigrated from France with his family. At the age of ten, he was entered as a cadet in the artillery-school in St. Petersburg; he served with distinction in the Russian Army and was a brigadier-general in 1813. At the First Restoration, he was attached to the Duc d'Angoulême as a lord of the Bed-chamber and aide-de-camp. Louis XVIII. made him a lieutenant-general in 1815. In the Spanish Campaign of 1823, at the head of a division, he handled his troops so well that, at Llers and Llado (15 and 16 September), he captured a whole column of the enemy. In reward for his services, the Baron de Damas was created a peer of France, on the 9th of October 1823, and appointed Minister for War on the 19th of the same month. One year later, he succeeded Chateaubriand at the Foreign Office; and, in 1828, he found himself involved in the fall of the Villèle Cabinet. In 1827, after the death of the Duc de Rivière, he became Governor to the Duc de Bordeaux, followed his pupil into exile, and retained his functions till 1833. In 1834, he retired to his estate of Hautefort and devoted the remainder of his life to passionate well-doing.--B.]
[Footnote 541: The Cardinal de Latil (_cf._ p. 18, n. 3, _supra_) was First Chaplain to Charles X., followed his master into exile, and did not return to France until 1836, after the King's death. He himself died in 1839, in the same year as the Duc de Blacas.--B.]
[Footnote 542: August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine (1759-1831), author of a number of novels of a domestic character which attained a great popularity.--T.]
[Footnote 543: _Cf._ MOLIÈRE: L'_Avare_, Act II. sc. i.--T.]
[Footnote 544: Maximilian I. King of Bavaria (1756-1825).--T.]
[Footnote 545: Maria Wilhelmina Augusta of Hesse-Dannstadt, Queen of Bavaria (1765-1796), is, I presume, the Queen referred to: Maximilian's second consort, Frederica Carolina Wilhelmina of Baden (1776-1841) did not die till eight years later.--T.]
[Footnote 546: Silvio Pellico (1788-1854), an Italian poet and prose-writer, arrested as a _Carbonaro_ in 1820 and imprisoned for two years in Milan and Venice. In 1822, he was condemned to death, but his sentence was commuted and he was kept as a prisoner, from 1822 to 1830, at the Spielberg, near Brünn. Pellico's chief works are his tragedies, _Francesca da Rimini_ and _Laodamia_, and his autobiographical work, _Le mie Prigioni_ (1833), which achieved an immense popularity throughout Europe.--T.]
[Footnote 547: The two last syllables of the German _Bitte für uns!_ and the French _espérance_ form a rough rhyme.--T.]
[Footnote 548: Henry VII. King of England (1457-1509) united the Houses of Lancaster (in his own person) and York (in that of his wife, Queen Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV.). He was noted for his avarice.--T.]
[Footnote 549: _Cf._ CERVANTES: _El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha_,