Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
Married in 1813 to the Comte de Castellane, afterwards Marshal
of France.
CASTELLANE, the Marquis Henri de (1814-1847). Eldest son of the
Marshal de Castellane; auditor to the Council of State, and
Councillor-General of Cantal. He was appointed Deputy in 1844.
In 1839 he married Mlle. Pauline de Périgord, grand-niece of the
Prince de Talleyrand and daughter of the Duchesse de Dino,
author of these memoirs.
CÆSAR, Julius (101-40 B.C.). A famous Roman General, celebrated
for his conquest of Gaul.
CHABOT, Philippe de (1815-1875). Ph. de Chabot, Comte de Jarnac
followed a diplomatic career and retained throughout his life a
profound attachment for the House of Orléans. He had been
appointed French Ambassador at London in 1874, but died shortly
after of pleurisy.
CHABROL DE CROUSOL, Comte de (1771-1831). Member of the Council of
State under Napoleon I.; President of the Imperial Court of
Orleans and Prefect of the Rhone in 1814; Director of
registration and State lands in 1822; Naval Minister in 1823 and
Finance Minister in 1829.
CHALAIS, the Prince de (1809-1883). Elie Louis Roger, eldest son
of the Duc de Périgord. He married Elodie de Beauvilliers de
Saint-Aignan, and was left a widower in 1835.
CHAMPCHEVRIER, Madame de. A highly respected lady who occupied the
mansion of Champchevrier near Cinq-Mars in Touraine about 1840,
when she was well advanced in years.
CHARLES THEODORE (1724-1799). Elector of Bavaria. He did not care
for Munich and settled at Mannheim. A statue was erected to him
at Heidelberg.
CHARLES IV (1316-1378). Emperor of Germany. Son of John of
Luxemburg, King of Bohemia. He succeeded his father in 1346, and
was elected Emperor in 1347. In 1356 he published the famous
"Golden Bull," which laid down the Constitution of the Empire
and remained authoritative until 1806. He was the first Prince
of Germany who sold titles of nobility. He founded the
Universities of Prague and Vienna.
CHARLES X.* (1757-1836). King of France from 1824 to 1830.
CHARLOTTE, Queen (1744-1818). Princess Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Married in 1761 King George III. of
England, by whom she had a very large number of children.
CHASTELLUX, Madame de, _née_ Zéphyrine de Damas. She married as
her first husband M. de Vogüé.
CHATEAUBRIAND, the Vicomte de* (1768-1848). French man of letters.
CHOISEUL PRASLIN, The Comtesse de. Born in 1782. Second wife of
the Comte René de Choiseul Praslin, daughter of François de
Rougé, Comte du Plessis Bellière.
CHOMEL, Dr. (1788-1859). A French doctor, and the first to
establish a proper clinical school at the Hospital of Charity. A
pupil of Corvisard, Chomel became the doctor of King
Louis-Philippe.
CHREPTOWICZ, Countess. Died in 1878. Helena, daughter of the Comte
de Nesselrode. Married Count Michael Chreptowicz, who served
for a long time in the Russian diplomatic service and was made
Court High Chamberlain during the last years of the reign of
Alexander II.
CLAM GALLAS, Count Edward of (1805-1891). Austrian cavalry
general, who played an important part in the wars in which
Austria was involved after 1848. He resigned in 1868 in anger at
the attacks made upon his conduct of the campaign of 1866
against Prussia in Bohemia, although a court-martial had
entirely exonerated him.
CLANRICARDE, Lord* (1802-1874). English politician.
CLANRICARDE, Lady. Died in 1876. Daughter of the famous Canning.
CLARY-ALDRINGEN, Prince Charles (1777-1831). He married the
Countess Louise Chotek.
CLAUSEL, Comte Bertrand (1772-1842). Enlisted as a volunteer in
1791. He was rapidly promoted. In 1805 he became general of
division and served in Italy, Dalmatia, Illyria, and won much
reputation during the war in Spain. After the Hundred Days when
he joined Napoleon, he withdrew to the United States and did not
return until the armistice of 1820. In 1827 he was a deputy and
a member of the Liberal opposition, and after 1830 he was
appointed Governor of Algiers, but was a failure at the Siege of
Constantine and was superseded. He then retired.
CLÉMENT DE RIS, Mlle. Married Admiral la Roncière le Noury. She
was a daughter of a senator of the Empire, and occupied the
château of Beauvais near Valençay.
CLÉMENTINE, Princess (1817-1907). Princesse Clémentine d'Orléans,
daughter of King Louis-Phillipe. Married in 1843 Prince Augustus
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of Saxony.
CLERMONT TONERRE, Prince Jules de (1813-1849). Second son of the
Duc Aimé de Clermont Tonnerre, sometime Minister of War, and
Peer of France. Prince J. de Clermont Tonnerre married Mlle. de
Crillon.
COBURG, Prince Ferdinand of* (1816-1888). Husband of Doña Maria da
Gloria, Queen of Portugal.
COBURG, Duke Ernest I. of Saxe- (1784-1844). This Prince succeeded
his father, Duke Francis, in 1806. His first wife was Princess
Louise of Saxe-Coburg Altenburg, who died in 1831. In 1832 he
married Princess Antoinette of Würtemberg.
COEUR, The Abbé (1805-1860). Born of a merchant's family, who
were traditionally supposed to have descended from the famous
banker of Charles VII., the Abbé Cœur was professor of
philosophy in the seminary of Lyons. After 1827 he came to Paris
and attentively followed the lectures of MM. Guizot, Villemain
and Cousin, and then devoted himself to preaching. In 1840 he
preached a course of Lenten sermons at Saint Roch, after which
King Louis-Philippe gave him the cross of the Legion of Honour.
In 1848 he was appointed to the Archbishopric of Troyes. He
delivered the funeral oration over Mgr. Affre.
COGNY, Dr. Doctor of Valençay.
COIGNY, the Duc de (1788-1865). He entered the army as a volunteer
in 1805; lost his arm at the battle of Smolensk, was appointed
cavalry colonel after the return of the Bourbons, in 1814 was
appointed aide-de-camp to the Duc de Berry, and then entered the
service of the Duc de Bordeaux. In 1821 he took the place of his
grandfather, Marshal de Coigny in the Chamber of Peers. After
vain efforts to secure from Charles X. in 1830 the revocation of
the Ordinances, M. de Coigny swore fidelity to the July
monarchy. In 1837 he was knight of honour to the Duchesse
d'Orléans, and in 1843 was promoted to field-marshal.
COIGNY, the Duchesse de. She was an English woman by birth, and
daughter of Sir H. J. Dalrymple Hamilton. She married the Duc de
Coigny in 1822.
COLLARD, Madame Hermine. Brought up by Madame de Genlis; the
circumstances of her birth were entirely obscure.
COMBALOT, the Abbé Théodore (1798-1873). A French preacher. He was
ordained at a very early age and became a zealous partisan of
Lamennais, though at a later date he disavowed his doctrines.
His sermons attracted keen attention, owing to their political
character.
CONDÉ, Louis II., Prince de (1621-1686). Called the Great Condé,
first Prince of the blood and first known as the Duc d'Enghien.
He was famous for his victories at Rocroi, Friburg, Nordlingen,
and Lens. After taking an unfortunate share in the troubles of
the Fronde, the Prince de Condé was restored to his command at
the time of the treaty of the Pyrenees and performed admirable
service during the wars in Flanders and in the Franche Comté.
CONYNGHAM, Francis Nathaniel, Marquis of* (1797-1882). English
politician.
CORMENIN, Vicomte de (1788-1868). Publicist, Councillor of State,
deputy, and famous as a pamphleteer under the pseudonym of
Timon.
CORNELIUS, Peter von (1787-1867). Famous German painter of the
School of Düsseldorf. He studied for several years at
Frankfort-on-Maine and at Rome. His composition was magnificent
and his power of drawing remarkable.
COSSÉ BRISSAC, the Duc de (1775-1848). A member of the
administration under the Empire, he joined the Restoration and
entered the Chamber of Peers in 1814. He then became a supporter
of the July Monarchy.
COURLANDE, Duchesse de (1761-1821). _Née_ Comtesse de Medem, she
married the Duc Pierre de Courlande, by whom she had four
daughters. The youngest was the Duchesse de Dino, author of
these memoirs.
COUSIN, Victor* (1792-1867). French philosopher.
COWPER, Lady* (1787-1869). Afterwards Lady Palmerston.
CRÉMIEUX, Adolphe (1796-1880). Lawyer and French politician. A
member of the National Defence in 1870.
CRESCENTINI, Girolamo (1769-1846). Famous soprano singer, known as
the Italian Orpheus. He went on the stage in 1788, and was heard
at Rome, Verona, Padua, Vienna, and Lisbon. Napoleon kept him at
Paris from 1806 to 1812. He afterwards became a professor in the
Conservatory at Naples.
CRUVEILHIER, Dr. Jean (1791-1874). Doctor and famous French
anatomist. He was born at Limoges and studied at Paris, where he
had a large and select practice.
CUBIÈRES, General de (1786-1853). In 1804 he left the military
school of Fontainebleau and distinguished himself at Austerlitz
and at Auerstadt. He obtained the cross of honour at Eylau, the
rank of captain at Essling, and became major of cavalry during
the campaign of 1813, colonel in 1815, and covered himself with
glory at Waterloo. When he was retired by the Second Restoration
he obtained the post of receiver-general of the Meuse, and in
1832 was given the command of the expeditionary force of Ancona.
He was appointed general and was twice Minister of War in 1839
and 1840. In 1847 he was involved in a deplorable affair and
accused of bribing the Minister Teste to secure the concession
of the salt-mines of Gouhénans. He was then tried before the
Court of Peers, condemned to civil degradation, and fined ten
thousand francs. In 1852 he was exonerated by the Court of
Appeal of Rouen.
CUMBERLAND, Ernest Augustus, Duke of* (1771-1851). Youngest son of
George III., King of England.
CUMBERLAND, Duchess of.* _Née_ Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
CUNEGONDE, Saint. Died in 1040. Empress of Germany and wife of
Henry II. of Bavaria. Her festival is March 3.
CUVIER, Rodolphe. Protestant pastor to the Duchesse d'Orléans. He
belonged to another branch of the family of the famous
naturalist who bears that name.
CUVILLIER FLEURY, Alfred Auguste (1802-1887). French man of
letters on the staff of the _Journal des Débats_, and appointed
by King Louis-Philippe to attend upon his fourth son, the Duc
d'Aumale, whose tutor he became, and afterwards his secretary of
instructions. He was elected member of the French Academy in
1866.
CZARTORYSKI, Prince Adam* (1770-1861). Formerly Minister of
Foreign Affairs to the Emperor Alexander I. of Russia.
CZARTORYSKI, Prince Adam (1804-1880). Son of Prince Constantin
Czartoryski and of Princess Angelica Radziwill. He first married
in 1832 his cousin-german, Princess Wanda Radziwill, and as his
second wife in 1848, Countess Dzialynska.
CZARTORYSKI, Princess Wanda (1813-1846). Daughter of Prince Antony
Radziwill and of Princess Louise of Prussia. She married in 1832
Prince Adam Czartoryski.
D
DALBERG, the Duc de* (1773-1833). Son of the Primate and
Archchancellor of the same name.
DARMÈS. Attempted to assassinate King Louis-Philippe on October
15, 1840.
DARMSTADT, Princess Marie of. Born in 1824, she married the
hereditary Grand Duke of Russia in 1841.