[Footnote 463: Colonel Francis Maceroni,çoisRené or de Macirone (1787-1846), was born near Manchester, of a family of Roman origin, and was sent to Naples to complete his education. Here he was kept a prisoner of war, as a British subject, from 1806 till the advent of Murat in 1808. The new King took him into favour, made him his aide-de-camp and employed him in his negociations with England. After Murat's departure from Corsica, Maceroni returned to France, where he was arrested and not released before the British Ambassador had made repeated representations on his behalf. He fought as a soldier of fortune in the South American Wars of Independence (1817) and in Spain (1823). His later years were spent in invention, notably of the famous Maceroni steam-carriage.--T.]
[Footnote 464: Napoleon set foot on St. Helena on the 15th of October 1815.--B.]
[Footnote 465: The portraits consisted of an engraved cornelian seal with his wife's likeness and a miniature of the features of his four children.--T.]
[Footnote 466: Pius VII. made his solemn entry into Rome on the 25th of May 1814.--B.]
[Footnote 467: This description occurs in that portion of the Memoirs, devoted to the life of Napoleon, which has been omitted.--T.]
[Footnote 468: Alexis Louis Joseph Comte de Noailles (1783-1835) had been imprisoned, in 1809, for spreading Pius VII.'s Bull of Excommunication against the authors and accomplices of the usurpation of the Papal States. In May 1814, the Comte de Noailles was Royal Commissary in Lyons.--B.]
[Footnote 469: Madame Charles Lenormant (_vide supra_ p. 180, n. 2).--T.]
[Footnote 470: She arrived in Paris on the 1st of June 1814.--B.]
[Footnote 471: _L'Esprit de conquête et d'usurpation dans ses rapports avec la civilisation européenne_ was published, early in 1814, in Germany, where Benjamin Constant then was; he returned to France with the Bourbons.--B.]
[Footnote 472: The appointment is announced in the _Journal de l'Empire_ of the 6th of April 1815.--B.]
[Footnote 473: In English in the original.--T.]
[Footnote 475: In 1819, Madame Récamier retired to the Abbaye-aux-Bois, where she occupied a small and incommodious apartment on the third storey, with a stone flooring and a stair-case of the most awkward description, which did not prevent its being climbed daily by the greatest ladies of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and by all the leading lights of Paris.--B.]