L’Estoile,
1546-1611. A Chronicler, born in
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Chateaubriand quotes from his Mémoires et
Journal de Pierre de l’Estoile concerning the
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Chateaubriand quotes from the Journal.
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Chateaubriand quotes him.
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See the Journal.
BkXXXVI:Chap5:Sec1 He relates this tale from June 1595.
BkXXXVII:Chap14:Sec1 See the Journal for January 1595.
BkXXXIX:Chap15:Sec1 See the Journal.
BkXLI:Chap7:Sec1 The
lady, Sainte-Beuve, an ardent Leaguer is mentioned several times in the Journal.
c1505-1573. A French Statesman, he was Chancellor of France under
Catherine de Medici. He favoured the Edict of Romorantin (1560) which
deprived the secular courts of jurisdiction in cases involving religion, and
was responsible for edicts granting liberty of conscience (1561) and restricted
liberty of worship (1562). He withdrew from court during the first War of
Religion (1562–63) but returned to power and in 1566 was the author of
important judicial reforms. After the outbreak (1567) of the second War of
Religion he was forced out of office (1568) by Charles and Henri de Guise. In
his retirement he composed Latin poetry.
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Mentioned.
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He imitated Horace in Book III of his Complete Works.
La
Baronnais, François-Pierre Collas (?), Monsieur de
b. c. 1726 Father of the Chevalier,
a former officer he was an inhabitant of Dinard. He married Renée de Kergu.
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His son the Chevalier died at Thionville.
Son of Monsieur.
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Killed at Thionville.
La
The region in northern France, located between the Seine and Loire rivers.
It now comprises the Eure-et-Loir département and parts of Loiret and Loir-et-Cher.
The region shared the history of the county of Chartres, which is its only
major city.
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Known for its wheatfields.
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Madame de Colbert’s house, Montboissier, there.
La
Bédoyére, Charles Angélique François Huchet, Comte de
1786-1815. He brought over to Napoleon the 7th Regiment of the Line,
during the Hundred Days, and enabled the successful march on
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His speech in the Chamber of Peers in June.
La
Belinaye, Renée, Mademoiselle de
1728-1816. Aunt of the Comtesse de Trojolif,
she was born and died in Fougères. She
was also the aunt of the Marquis de La Rouërie.
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Mentioned.
La
Besnardière, Jean-Baptiste de Gouey, Comte de
1765-1843. A section head in the Foreign
Ministry from 1795 to 1819, he collaborated closely with Talleyrand and accompanied him to the Congress of
Vienna. He was given a title on his return.
BkXXIII:Chap11:Sec2 At the Congress of
The son of Monsieur Launay, he was a
childhood friend of Chateaubriand.
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Mentioned.
La
Billardière, Monsieur Launay de
A tobacco bonder, he lived at Combourg.
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Mentioned.
La
Bletterie, Jean-Philippe-René, Abbé de
1696-1772. A professor of the Collège de
France, he left a Life of Julian (1735) and a translation of Tacitus (1755-1768).
BkXXXVIII:Chap8:Sec1 His imitation of an epigram of Julian’s.
La
Bouëtardais, Marie-Annibal-Joseph de Bedée, Comte de
La
Bouillerie, François Roullet, Baron de
1764-1833. Former Deputy for the
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Chateaubriand had asked him to augment the pension which Charles X had granted Thierry.
La
Bourdonnais, François Mahé de
1699-1753. A member of the nobility of Saint-Malo, La Bourdonnais was born
in the city in 1699. Lieutenant in the East Indies Company in 1718, he took
part in the capture of the main islands of the
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Born in Saint-Malo.
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Mentioned.
La
Bourdonnaye, François-Régis, Comte de
1767-1839. Fought with the Chouans
in the Vendée, and was an ultra-right wing member (leader of the White Jacobins) of the Chambre introuvable from 1815. Interior
Minister under Polignac in 1829,
he was quickly dismissed for extremism. He lost his position as Minister of
State and Charles X private advisor in the July Revolution.
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A possible Chief Minister in 1827.
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Interior Minister in 1829.
La
Bourdonnaye-Montluc, Chevalier de, of the Order of Malta
BkI:Chap1:Sec5.
He is mentioned as assisting in the granting of Chateaubriand’s application to
enrol in the order of Malta.
La
Briche,
1755-1844. Married Alexis La Live de La
Briche, youngest son of the financier La Live de Bellegarde. Widowed at thirty,
her only daughter married Mathieu Molé in 1798.
BkXIV:Chap1:Sec1 She inherited Le Marais, near Saint-Chéron,
forty kilometres south-west of
La
Chalotais, Louis-René de Caradeuc de
1701-1785. A French magistrate
(Advocate-General of the Breton Parlement
in 1730-1752, Attorney-General in 1752) who led the Parlement (high court of justice) in a protracted legal battle
against the authority of the government of King Louis XV
particularly with the Duke of Pivot, who was Governor of Brittany
and the King's representative, concerning the influence and fate of the Jesuit
order. This led him to be seen as the head of the parliamentary opposition, and
in 1765 he was imprisoned by Louis XV and later exiled. He was restored by
Louis XVI in 1775. The struggle resulted in the
purging and suspensions (1771–74) of the Parlements.
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The affair involved Chateaubriand’s maternal relatives. His aunt and his cousin
Moreau rashly having made false accusations were obliged to make a public
retraction, and paid a heavy fine.
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He wrote his Memoirs (published 1767) while imprisoned in the Château of Saint-Malo.
La
The Chartreuse mountain range is close to
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Voreppe is a town between
Built for the French fleet in
1801, the 36 ton Frigate Chiffone Captain Pierre Guiyesse captured (June 1801)
the British Bellona on her way to
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On
La
Conchée,
Following plans designed by Vauban,
engineer Siméon de Garangeau (1647-1741) extended the town, revamped its
fortifications and built sea forts on the small islands off the city, Petit Bé,
Grand Bé and
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Mentioned.
La
Fare, Anne-Louis-Henri, Cardinal de
1752-1829. Archbishop of Sens from 1817,
created Duke in 1822, a Cradinal from 1823. He died on
BkXXX:Chap4:Sec1 He arrives at the Conclave of 1829.
La
Fayette, Georges-Washington de Motier de
1779-1849 The son of the Marquis, after a military career he retired in 1807,
then after 1815 pursued a political career. He accompanied his father to
BkXLII:Chap3:Sec1 Mentioned.
La
Fayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Ives-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, Marquis de
1757-1834. General and Politician, he was prominent at the start of the
Revolution. His early career was distinguished by military success against the
British in American Revolution (1777-1779, 1780-1782). As a representative of
the States-General he presented the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789.
In 1792 the rising power of the radicals threatened him, and he went to
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Appointed to lead the citizens’ militia which became the National Guard, after
the fall of the Bastille in July 1789.
BkV:Chap15:Sec3
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Mentioned.
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Burnt in effigy for condemning the attack on the Tuileries.
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His efforts during the American War of Independence.
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A native of the
BkXIX:Chap3:Sec1 His noble birth.
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He presented Paoli to Louis XVI.
BkXXII:Chap15:Sec2 BkXXII:Chap15:Sec3 Used the common linguistic style of the age, as a defender of freedom.
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In
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His speech to the House of Representatives after Waterloo.
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Accused by Napoleon of conspiring against him in 1815.
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He responds to Chateaubriand’s article.
BkXXXI:Chap8:Sec1 BkXXXII:Chap6:Sec1 Mooted
as a member of a Provisional Government in July 1830.
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His arrest ordered but not carried out on
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Receives a students delegation on
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Proposed as President of a Republic in July 1830.
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He refused the Presidency on the morning of
BkXXXIII:Chap5:Sec1
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Mentioned.
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Louis-Philippe’s dominance over him.
BkXXXV:Chap1:Sec1 Mentioned in April 1832.
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Chateaubriand’s description of his life and politics. He received a triumphant
welcome in
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Mentioned.
La
Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Madame de
1634-1693. A French writer, she married in 1651 the Chevalier de Sévigné, and thus became connected with Mme de Sévigné, who was destined to be a lifelong friend. Her first novel, La Princesse de Montpensier, was published anonymously in 1662; Zayde appeared in 1670 under the name of J. de Segrais; and in 1678 her masterpiece, La Princesse de Cleves, also under the name of Segrais.
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A friend of La Rochefoucauld.
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Her charming talent.
La
Fayette, Marie-Adrienne-Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de
1759-1807. The daughter of Jean-Louis-Paul-François, Duc d’Ayen and
Duc de Noailles, she lost her mother and sister to the guillotine and barely
escaped execution herself (1794). After a failed attempt to have her husband
(they married in 1774) released from an Austrian prison, she shared his prison
cell in Olmuts (1795-97). They had four children: Henriette, Anastasie,
Virginie, and George Washington.
BkXLII:Chap3:Sec1 Mentioned.
La
Feronnays, Pierre-Louis-Auguste Ferron, Comte de
1777-1842. A soldier then diplomat, he was the Ambassador to
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native of Saint-Malo.
BkXXVII:Chap10:Sec1 A plenipotentiary with Chateaubriand at the Congress of Verona.
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Chateaubriand writes to him in
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Foreign Minister in 1828, a friend of Chateaubriand.
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Informs Chateaubriand of the surrender of Varna
in September 1829. He had been obliged to take a few weeks leave due to
illness, and rumours had spread of his resignation.
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Went to
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reports him cured of his illness in March 1829.
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Mentioned as unable to fulfil a Ministerial role any longer.
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Mentioned.
BkXL:Chap4:Sec1 Sent to Prague by the Duchess de Berry in 1833.
BkXLI:Chap1:Sec1 In Udine in 1833. He was brother-in-law to Blacas.
Sunk by the English near the
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Used to transport Republican exiles to the
1621-1695. Author of the Fables
(1688-1694) sophisticated verse treatments of traditional fables from the collections
of Aesop, Phaedrus and others. His many other works include his bawdy verse
tales (Contes, 1664) which he
supposedly repudiated after his religious conversion in 1692.
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Chateaubriand, perhaps unconsciously, quotes the first verse of La Fontaine’s
fable ‘The Acorn and the Pumpkin’ (Fables
IX.4)
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Chateaubriand quotes from ‘The Monkey and the Cat’ (Fables IX.16)
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Chateaubriand quotes the last line of Vieillard
et les trois jeunes hommes (Fables
XI.8)
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Chateaubriand quotes from La Cigale et la Fourmi (The Cicada and the Ant, Fables I.1), with himself as the singing
Cicada in the first instance and George Sand in the second.
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Chateaubriand refers to Le Chat, la
Belette et le petit Lapin (Fables,
VII.16)
BkXII:Chap1:Sec1 BkXIII:Chap7:Sec1 Mentioned.
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His work ignored by the English in 1822.
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A reference to ‘Discours á M. le duc de
Rochefoucauld’ Fables X:14.
BkXX:Chap5:Sec3 A reference to Fables III:4.
BkXXV:Chap13:Sec1 A reference to Fables VII:9, ‘The Coach and the Fly’, where the Fly goads the horses up the hill, considers it has done all the work, and asks for payment.
BkXXVII:Chap3:Sec2 A malicious reference to ‘The Two Cockerels’, Fables VII:14, line 3)
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A reference to La Fontaine’s, Fables VII:12
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The reference is to ‘The Cockerel and the
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See La Matrone d’Éphèse: 149-150
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See Fables XI:7 lines 11-13, Le Paysan de Danube.
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See Fables X:1 line 52, L’Homme et la Couleuvre.
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See Fables VI:18 Le Charretier Embourbé. The
Carter Stuck in the Mud. Set in Quimper-Corentin in
BkXXXVII:Chap3:Sec1 See Fables VII:3 line 10 Le Rat qui s’est retiré du monde.
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See Fables VIII:9 line 7 The Rat and the Oyster.
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The reference is to an anecdote of Racine’s
in which La Fontaine arrived at Châlons to
see his wife who was at prayer and so he left without seeing her.
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See Fables, the Fox and the Crow.
BkXLI:Chap1:Sec1 ‘autre injure des ans’ is from Philemon et Baucis: 66, the sense is
‘another victim of time’s injuries’.
La
Force, Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, Marshal de
1558-1652. He was a marshal
and peer of
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Mentioned.
La
Valet de Chambre to the Chateaubriand family.
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Mentioned.
Minister under Louis XVI in 1789.
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Appointed Comptroller-General in 1789.
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