[Footnote 42: _Réflexions sur l'état intérieur de la France_ (22 October 1818): _Conservateur_,çoisRené vol. I., p. 113.--B.]
[Footnote 43: A _ci-devant_ marquis and ex-deputy in the Legislative Assembly. He sat as a juror in the Revolutionary Tribunal during the trials of the Queen and of the Girondins.--B.]
[Footnote 44: _Conservateur_, vol. I., p. 466.--B.]
[Footnote 45: Anne Victor Denis Hubault, Marquis de Vibraye (1766-1843), was a cavalry officer at the time of the Revolution, emigrated in 1791, and returned in 1814, when he became a colonel and aide-de-camp to Monsieur, later Charles X. He was created a peer on the 17th of August 1815, on the same day as Chateaubriand; was promoted to major-general in 1823; and left the Upper Chamber at the Revolution of 1830, so as not to take the oath to the new Sovereign.--B.]
[Footnote 46: Alexandre Comte de Girardin (1776-1885) served with distinction under Napoleon and was by Louis XVIII. appointed Master of the Hounds, an office which he retained till 1830. M. Émile de Girardin, the celebrated editor of the _Presse_, through whom the _Mémoires d'Outre-tombe_ were originally published, was his illegitimate son.--B.]
[Footnote 47: _Conservateur_, vol. VI., p. 382. The article is by Chateaubriand.--B.]
[Footnote 48: "From the blood of our kings but a small drop escaping."--_Athalie_, act I., sc. 1.--T.]
[Footnote 49: Chateaubriand's article, dated 3 March 1820: the _Conservateur_, vol. VI., p. 471.--B.]
[Footnote 50: By the Papal Nuncio, in his congratulatory address, pronounced in the name of the Diplomatic Body.--B.]
[Footnote 51: By Lamartine, in his ode, the _Naissance du duc de Bordeaux._--B.]
[Footnote 52: M. Decazes resigned on the 17th of February. The _Moniteur_ of the 21st of February published three Orders, signed on the preceding day: the first accepting M. Decazes' resignation, the second appointing M. le Duc de Richelieu President of the Council, and the third conferring upon M. Decazes the title of duke and of minister of State.--B.]
[Footnote 53: This is a clerical error. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in February 1820 was M. Pasquier. M. Molé, under the Restoration, held only the office of Minister of Marine, and that at an earlier date, from 1817 to 1818.--B.]
