Isabey’s Study--His Drawing of the Plenipotentiaries at the Congress of Vienna--The Imperial Sepulchre at the Capuchins --Recollections of the Tombs of Cracow--Preacher Werner --St. Stephen’s Cathedral--Children’s Ball at Princesse Marie Esterhazy’s--The Empress Elizabeth of Russia-- The Picture-Gallery of the Duc de Saxe-Teschen--Emperor Alexander and Prince Eugène--The Pictures of the Belvedere --The King of Bavaria--Anecdotes, 394
Ypsilanti--Promenade on the Prater--First Rumour of the Escape of Napoleon--Projects for the Deliverance of Greece --Comte Capo d’Istria--The Hétairites--Meeting with Ypsilanti in 1820--His Projects and Reverses, 406
Napoleon has left Elba--Aspect of Vienna--Theatricals at the Court--Mme. Edmond de Périgord and the Rehearsal-- Napoleon’s Landing at Cannes--The Interrupted Dance--Able Conduct of M. de Talleyrand--Declaration of the 13th March --Fauche Borel--The Congress is Dissolved, 410
FRANCIS I., EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, _Frontispiece_. _at page_ COUNT NESSELRODE, 36
ROBERT, VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH, MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY, 281
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THE COMTE AUGUSTE DE LA GARDE-CHAMBONAS
Auguste-Louis-Charles de La Garde,[1] a man of letters and a poet of some repute in his time, was born in Paris in 1783. The following is a copy of his certificate of baptism:--
THE OLD PARISH OF On Wednesday, the fifth day of March of the year seventeen hundred and eighty-three, SAINT-EUSTACHE, there was baptized Auguste-Louis-Charles, born on the previous day but one, the son of ANNO 1783. Messire le Comte Scipion-Auguste de La Garde, chevalier, captain of Dragoons, and (REGISTRY OF PARIS.) of Dame Catherine-Françoise Voudu, his wife, domiciled in the Rue de Richelieu. Godfather --Messire Jean de la Croix, captain of Dragoons; Godmother-- Dame Elisabeth Vingtrinien, wife of M. Etienne-Antoine Barryals, Bourgeois of Paris.[2]
The child’s mother died in giving it birth. The father only survived the beloved young wife for a little while, and feeling his end to be near, confided the orphan to the head of his family, the Marquis de Chambonas (Scipion-Charles-Victor Auguste de La Garde), camp-marshal (equivalent to the present grade of general of brigade), and subsequently a minister of Louis XVI.[3]