Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
whose life he wrote and whose works he published.
HAMILTON, Duchess of (1817-1887). Maria Amelia, last daughter of
the Grand Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Baden and of the Grand
Duchess, née Stéphanie de Beauharnais.
HANOVER, the King of (1771-1851). Ernest Augustus, Duke of
Cumberland; ascended the throne of Hanover in 1837, after the
death of his brother King William IV. of England.
HANOVER, Prince George of (1819-1878). Afterwards George V. King
of Hanover.
HARCOURT, Lady Elizabeth (1793-1838).
HARRISON, Miss. Governess of the three Princesses of Courlande,
who afterwards became the Countess of Lazareff, the Countess of
Hohenthal and Madame de Boyen. She lived until her death with
Countess Lazareff at Dyrnfurth.
HAUSSONVILLE, Comte Joseph Bernard d' (1809-1884). French
politician and writer. He was a deputy under the July monarchy,
and a member of the National Assembly in 1871. He was a member
of the French Academy.
HÉLIAUD, Comte de (1768-1858). He lived a somewhat solitary life
in Touraine and died in the same year as his son who was an
official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
HÉLIE. Footman to the Prince de Talleyrand for many years.
HENEAGE, Mr. English diplomatist, attached to the Paris Embassy in
1840.
HENNENBERG, Herr. Died in 1836. Councillor of Justice in the
Courts of Berlin.
HESSE, Prince George of (1793-1881). This Prince was in the
Prussian service.
HESSE-DARMSTADT, Grand Duke Louis II. of* (1777-1848). He had
married a Princess of Baden.
HESSE-DARMSTADT, Princess Elizabeth of (1815-1885). Daughter of
Prince William of Prussia and brother of King Frederick William
III. and elder sister of Queen Maria of Bavaria.
HESSE-DARMSTADT, Princess Maria of (1824-1880). Daughter of Louis
II., Grand Duke of Hesse. In 1841 she married the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Russia, who succeeded his father, the Emperor
Nicholas I., in 1855.
HOHENLOHE-ÖRINGEN, Prince Frederick of. Born in 1812. A major of
cavalry in the service of Würtemberg.
HOHENTHAL, Count Alfred of. Born in 1806. Chamberlain to the King
of Saxony. He married Princess Louise of Biron Courlande.
HOHENTHAL, Countess Louise of (1808-1845). _Née_ Princess of Biron
Courlande.
HOHENZOLLERN-HECHINGEN, Prince Frederick of (1776-1838). In 1800
he married Princess Pauline of Courlande, sister of the Duchesse
de Talleyrand.
HOHENZOLLERN-HECHINGEN, Princess of (1782-1845). Pauline, Princess
of Courlande, daughter of Peter, Duke of Courlande.
HOHENZOLLERN-HECHINGEN, Prince Constantine of (1800-1859). Son of
Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and of the Princess
of Courlande. By a convention signed in 1849 Prince Constantine
abdicated the government of the principality of Hohenzollern, in
favour of the King of Prussia, and in 1850 received the title of
Royal Highness. He first married the Princess of Leuchtenberg,
by whom he had no children, and then contracted a morganatic
marriage with the daughter of the Baron of Schenk, by whom he
had two children, who bore the name of Rothenburg.
HOLLAND, Lord* (1772-1840). English statesman. Nephew of the
famous Fox.
HOLLAND, Lady,* died in 1840. She was Lady Webster by her first
marriage.
HOTTINGER, Baron Jean Conrad (1764-1841). Of Swiss origin, M.
Hottinger founded an important commercial firm at Paris. In 1810
he was made a baron of the Empire, and in 1815 elected to the
Chamber of the Hundred Days. Afterwards he became president of
the Chamber of Commerce, judge in the commercial court, and
governor of the Bank of France.
HOWARD OF WALDEN, Charles Augustus Ellis, Lord. Born in 1799.
English diplomatist; under Secretary of State to the Foreign
Office in 1824; minister at Stockholm in 1832, at Lisbon in
1834, and at Brussels in 1846.
HÜBNER, Count of (1811-1892). In 1833 he entered the chancery of
Prince Metternich, who recognised his capacity. He then became
secretary to the Embassy at Lisbon, chief consul at Leipzig, and
political adviser to Marshal Radetzky in Italy. He was made a
prisoner in 1848, and was not set at liberty until after the
conclusion of peace with King Charles Albert. In 1849 he was
first Minister and then Ambassador at Paris until 1859. In 1867
he was appointed Ambassador at Rome. He then left the diplomatic
service, and spent his time in travel and literary work.
HUGEL, Ernest Eugene von (1774-1849). General in the Austrian
service and for some time Minister of War. He had also been
Austrian Minister at Paris.
HUMANN, Mlle. Louise, born about 1757. Her piety outrivalled that
of the Christians of the Primitive Church. At Strasburg, where
she lived, she became the patroness of the Abbés Bautain, Gratry
and Ratisbonne. She was a sister of the Bishop of Mayence and of
the Finance Minister of King Louis-Philippe.
HUMANN, Jean George* (1780-1842). French statesman and financier.
Born of an old Alsatian family.
HUMBOLDT, Baron William of (1767-1835). Statesman and Prussian
philologist. In 1802 he was Minister at Rome and then became
Councillor of State at Berlin and chief of the department of
education and public worship. In 1808 he was appointed
Plenipotentiary Minister at Vienna; in 1810 he took part in the
Conference at Prague, and in 1815 in the Congress of Vienna. He
was extraordinary envoy at London in 1816, then Minister of
State and a member of the Commission entrusted with the
preparation of the Prussian Constitution in 1818. In 1819 he
resigned his posts and devoted his attention to literary work.
HUMBOLDT, Alexander of (1769-1858). Great German naturalist and
man of science, well known for his scientific travels in the New
World, and by the genius which his numerous narratives of them
display. He was a brother of the foregoing.
HUMBOLDT, Frau Wilhelm von (1771-1829). Daughter of Frederick of
Dachröden. She had married Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1791.
HUMBOLDT, Caroline von (1792-1837). Eldest daughter of Wilhelm von
Humboldt.
HYDE DE NEUVILLE, Baron Jean Guillaume (1776-1857). French
politician. Deeply attached to the royalty. Implicated in a
conspiracy against Napoleon I., he fled to the United States,
and did not return to France until after the fall of the Empire.
In 1815 he was a deputy; in 1816 he was Minister to the United
States, and afterwards to Portugal. In 1828 he held the
portfolio of Naval Affairs in the Martignac Ministry, but
resigned when Polignac's Cabinet came into power. After 1830 he
supported the desperate cause of the Duc de Bordeaux, and
afterwards lived in retirement.
I
IBRAHIM PASHA (1772-1848). Son of the Viceroy of Egypt, Mehemet
Ali, whom he supported in the task of Egyptian re-organisation.
He invaded Syria in 1832 at his father's orders, and was
marching upon Constantinople when he was stopped at Kutayeh by
the intervention of the European Powers. Some years afterwards,
when war broke out again, Ibrahim won a decisive victory over
the Turks at Nezib in 1839, but the treaty of London of July
15, 1840, and the bombardment of the Syrian ports by the
English fleet obliged him to abandon the conquest of Syria for
a second time. He then devoted his time to the domestic
administration of Egypt.
ISABELLA II.* (1830-1904). Queen of Spain.
ISTURITZ, Xavier d', born in 1790. He was a Spanish statesman who
held a seat from 1812 in the Cortes, and attracted attention by
his revolutionary patriotism. While president of the Chamber of
the Procuradores in 1835, his Liberal ideas brought him into
trouble and he was obliged to take refuge in London. Afterwards
he accomplished several missions to the different courts of
Europe, and was even Ambassador at Paris from 1863 to 1864.
J
JACKSON, Andrew (1767-1845). American General and seventh
President of the United States in 1829. In 1834 he claimed from
France in very haughty terms an indemnity of twenty-five
millions for the ships taken from the United States under the
Empire. After holding the Presidency twice in succession, he
retired into private life.
JAUBERT, Chevalier (1779-1847). An Orientalist who accompanied
Bonaparte to Egypt as interpreter. He was secretary and
interpreter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Master of
Requests, and then Chargé d'affaires at Constantinople. In 1819
he was Secretary and Interpreter to Louis XVIII.; he became a
Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Literature in 1830,
and was made a Peer of France by Louis-Philippe.
JAUBERT, Comte Hippolyte François (1798-1874). A French politician
and man of learning. He was a Deputy in 1831, and Minister of
Public Works in 1840. He was appointed Peer of France in 1844,
when the fall of Louis-Philippe induced him to retire into
private life.
JAUCOURT, Marquise de* (1762-1848). _Née_ Mlle. Charlotte de
Bontemps.
JERSEY, Lady Sarah* (1787-1867). Her drawing-room was one of the
most famous in London.
JOINVILLE, François d'Orléans, Prince de (1818-1900). Third son of
King Louis-Philippe. He served in the navy and brought the
remains of Napoleon back to France in 1840. In 1843 he married
Princess Francisca of Braganza, daughter of the Emperor of
Brazil.
JUMILHAC, Odet de Chapelle de (1804-1880). Duc de Richelieu. A
nephew by his mother of the Duc de Richelieu who died in 1822,
M. de Jumilhac assumed his uncle's title and thus became a
member of the Chamber of Peers. He was a Knight of the Legion of
Honour.
K
KAROLYI, Countess Ferdinand (1805-1844). Daughter of Prince
Ludwig of Kaunitz Rietberg. She married Count Louis Karolyi in
1823.
KENT, Duchess of* (1786-1861). Sister-in-law of King William IV.
of England and mother of Queen Victoria.
KRÜDENER, Baroness of (1764-1824). Julia of Vietinghoff, daughter
of the Governor of Riga; at the age of fourteen she married the
Baron of Krüdener, Russian Minister at Berlin, by whom she had
two children. Her husband divorced her in 1791. After a series
of adventures she became intimate with Queen Louise of Prussia,
and then became a religious fanatic. In 1814 she was at Paris
when the allies entered the town, and obtained great influence
over the Emperor Alexander I. Expelled from Germany and from
Switzerland she took refuge at her estates near Riga, and began
a connection with the Moravian Brothers. She started for the
Crimea in 1822 with the intention of founding an asylum for
criminals and sinners.
KRÜDENER, Baroness Amelia of (1808-1888). Daughter-in-law of the
foregoing. She was a natural daughter of the Princesse de la
Tour et Taxis, _née_ Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Queen
Louise of Prussia and of Count Maximilian of Lerchenfeld, who
brought her up at his house and whose wife adopted her. In 1825
she married Herr von Krüdener, and her second husband in 1850
was Count Nicholas Adlerberg, aide-de-camp to the Emperor
Nicholas I. of Russia.
KRÜGER, Francis (1797-1857). A famous portrait-painter at Berlin.
KUHNEIM, Countess (1770-1854). By birth a During she was friend of
Princess Charles of Prussia.
L
LA BESNARDIÈRE, J. B. Gouey de (1765-1843). Privy Councillor who
lived for a long time in Touraine after his retirement in 1819.