Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
LABORDE, Comte Léon de (1807-1869). Archæologist and traveller,
and for a short time diplomatist. In 1840 he was appointed a
deputy, and was director of the Museum of Antiquities in the
Louvre from 1845 to 1848. He received a seat in the Senate in
1868.
LABOUCHERE, Henry* (1798-1869). Member of the English Parliament.
LA BRICHE, Comtesse de. Her salon became famous at Paris as she
gathered distinguished men and famous writers about her. She
possessed the château of Marais near Paris, where she often gave
dramatic performances. Her daughter had married M. Molé.
LA BRUYERE, Jean de* (1645-1696). Author of the Characters.
LACAVE LAPLAGNE, Jean Pierre Joseph (1795-1849). He was a pupil of
the Polytechnic School; he took part in the last campaigns of
the Empire and resigned when the Bourbons were restored. He then
devoted himself to the study of law, was called to the Bar at
Toulouse and entered the magistracy. He was deputy for the
department of Gers, and several times held the portfolio of
finance. King Louis-Philippe entrusted to him the administration
of the property of the Duc d'Aumale.
LACORDAIRE, Henri (1802-1861). Famous French preacher, a Dominican
of the Order of the Preaching Friars. He entered the French
Academy in 1860 in place of M. de Tocqueville.
LADVOCAT, M. King's attorney under the monarchy of 1830. As he was
the bearer of nominations, Fieschi had applied to him upon his
arrival at Paris to secure a post; after his attempted
assassination Fieschi, who had taken a false name, was
recognised by M. Ladvocat.
LAFARGE, Mme. The mother of M. Lafarge. She was not able to avoid
all suspicion in the course of the famous trial. She had broken
the seals of her daughter-in-law's will to learn her
dispositions.
LAFARGE, M. A widower at the age of twenty-eight, Pouch Lafarge,
who owned an iron works at Glandier (Corrèze); he was an
incompetent man of business, always reduced to extremities. He
married Marie Capelle who gained a gloomy notoriety by poisoning
him.
LAFARGE, Mme. (1816-1852). Marie Capelle, an orphan, married M.
Lafarge in 1839. As the result of the famous trial, she was
condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
LA FAYETTE, the Marquis de* (1767-1834). A deputy to the States
General in 1789, he played a part in the revolutionary events of
his time.
LAFFITTE, Jacques (1767-1844). A French financier who played an
important part in the July revolution, and was a Minister under
King Louis-Philippe.
LAMARTINE, Alphonse de (1790-1869). French poet and politician. He
entered the Academy in 1830, and the Chamber of Deputies in
1834, and acquired a wide popularity which faded soon after
1848.
LAMB, Frederick* (1782-1852). English diplomatist. Brother of Lord
Melbourne and heir to his title.
LAMBRUSCHINI, Cardinal (1776-1854). He was Bishop of Sabine,
Archbishop of Genoa, and papal nuncio at Paris under Charles X.
He received his Cardinal's hat in 1831. Pope Gregory XVI.
appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs, then Secretary of
Briefs, and Prefect of the Congregation of Studies. After the
events of 1848 he followed Pius IX. to Gaeta.
LANSDOWNE, Lady.* Died in 1865; she had married the Marquis of
Lansdowne in 1819.
LARCHER, Mlle. Henriette* (1782-1860). Governess of Mlle. Pauline
de Périgord.
LA REDORTE, the Comte Mathieu de* (1804-1886). French diplomatist.
LA REDORTE, the Comtesse de. Died in 1885. _Née_ Louise Suchet,
daughter of the Marshal d'Albuféra.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, the Comte Sosthène de. Duc de Doudeauville
(1785-1864). Aide-de-camp to the Comte d'Artois under the
Restoration. He was always an ardent Legitimist, and also had
paid much attention to literature.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Marie de. Died in 1840. She was the daughter of
the Duc de Sosthène de la Rochefoucauld Doudeauville and
granddaughter of the Duchesse Mathieu de Montmorency.
LA ROVÈRE, the Marquise de (1817-1840). Elizabeth of Stackelberg.
A Russian by birth, she became a Catholic upon her marriage with
the Marquis de la Rovère and died soon after her marriage. Her
tomb of white marble is in the Campo Santo of Turin.
LAS CASES, the Comte Emanuel de (1800-1854). He had followed his
father to St. Helena. The Revolution of 1830 afterwards found a
warm supporter in him. When he was elected deputy he joined the
ranks of the Liberal party and entered the Senate after the
_coup d'état_ of December 2, 1852.
LAVAL, the Prince Adrien de* (1768-1837). Peer of France and
diplomatist.
LAVAL, the Vicomtesse de (1745-1838). Mlle. Tavernier de
Boullongue had married in 1765 the Vicomte de Laval and was the
mother of the Duc Mathieu de Montmorency, who was Minister of
Foreign Affairs. She was a great friend of M. de Talleyrand.
LAZAREFF, Madame de (1813-1881). She was born Princess Antoinette
de Biron Courlande.*
LÉAUTAUD, the Comtesse de. Alexandrine Clémentine de Nicolaï
daughter of the Marquis and Marquise Scipion de Nicolaï, _née_
Lameth. Her name appeared in the Lafarge trial with reference to
a theft of diamonds of which Madame Lafarge was accused, and
which she asserted had been handed to her by Madame de Léautaud.
LEBRUN, Pierre Antoine (1785-1873). Man of letters and member of
the French Academy from 1828. From 1830 to 1848 he was a
director of the Royal printing house; in 1839 he was made a Peer
of France, called to the Senate in 1853 and became grand officer
of the Legion of Honour.
LE HON, Count (1792-1868). Belgian statesman and Minister at Paris
for many years.
LEON, the Prince Charles Louis Jocelyn de (1819-1893). He assumed
the title of Duc de Rohan on the death of his father in 1869. He
had married Mlle. de Boissy in 1843.
LERCHENFELD, Count Maximilian of (1779-1843). A Bavarian statesman
who helped to draw up the Bavarian Constitution. In 1825 he
became Finance Minister and resigned his post to become
Ambassador to the Germanic Diet. He had married the Baroness
Anne of Grosschlag.
LESTOCQ, Frau von (1788-1849). Widow of General Lestocq, Governor
of Breslau, who died in 1818. She was the chief lady at the
Court of Princess William of Prussia, by birth Princess of Hesse
Homburg, and sister-in-law to King Frederick William III.
LEUCHTENBERG, Prince Augustus Charles of* (1807-1835). For a short
time he was the husband of Doña Maria, Queen of Portugal.
LEVESON, George (1815-1891). He was secretary to his father, Lord
Granville, English Ambassador at Paris, and then secretary to
the Foreign Minister. In 1846, on his father's death, he
inherited his title and entered the House of Lords. He held
Government offices at different times, and eventually retired in
1886 with Mr. Gladstone.
LEZAY MARNÉSIA, the Comte de* (1772-1857). Prefect and Peer of
France under the Bourbons, and Senator under the Empire in 1852.
LIAUTARD, the Abbé (1774-1842). He studied at the College of
Sainte Barbe at Paris and was then called to the colours by the
decree of August 23, 1793. He was one of the most brilliant
pupils of the Polytechnic School, but renouncing the world, he
entered the seminary of Saint Sulpice, and was ordained priest
in 1804. Afterwards he founded the college which was to become
the College of Stanislas and then became the chief priest of
Fontainebleau after refusing the bishopric of Limoges.
LICHTENSTEIN, the Princess of (1776-1848). By birth she was the
Landgräfin Josephine of Fürstenberg, and had married in 1792
Prince Johann Josef of Lichtenstein.
LIEBERMANN, the Baron Augustus of (1791-1841). Prussian
diplomatist at Madrid in 1836 and at St. Petersburg in 1840.
LIEVEN, the Prince de* (1770-1839). Russian diplomatist, and for
twenty-two years Ambassador at London.
LIEVEN, the Princesse de* (1784-1857). _Née_ Dorothée de
Benkendorff.
LIEGNITZ, the Princess of (1800-1873). The Countess of Harrach
contracted a morganatic marriage in 1824 with King Frederick
William III. of Prussia, who gave her the title of Princess of
Liegnitz.
LINANGE, Prince Charles of (1804-1856). Son of the Duchess of Kent
by her first marriage. He married the Countess of Klebelsberg.
LINDENAU, Baron Bernard Augustus of (1780-1854). Learned German
astronomer and politician. He held several diplomatic posts and
became Home Secretary in Saxony. In 1830 he worked energetically
to form a Constitution for this country. He founded an
astronomical museum at Dresden.
LINGARD, John (1769-1851). An English historian and a Catholic
Priest who had been educated at Douai with the Jesuits.
LISFRANC DE SAINT MARTIN, Jacques (1790-1847). Famous French
surgeon who made a great reputation under the Second
Restoration.
LOBAU, the Comte de (1770-1838). As a volunteer he took an active
part in the campaigns of the Republic and of the Empire. After
Leipzig, when he was involved in the capitulation of Gouvion
Saint-Cyr, he was sent to Hungary as a prisoner where he
remained until the Restoration. During the Hundred Days he
commanded the first military division and the sixth army corps
at Waterloo, where he was captured by the English. From 1815 to
1818 he was exiled and then lived in retirement until 1823, when
he entered the Chamber of Deputies. He was made Peer of France
and Marshal in 1831, and successfully opposed the outbreaks
which took place at Paris in 1831 and 1834.
LOBAU, wife of the foregoing. She was the daughter of Madame
d'Arberg and sister-in-law of General Klein.
LÖWENHIELM, Count Gustavus Charles Frederick of (1771-1856).
Swedish diplomatist; Extraordinary Minister to the Congress of
Vienna in 1815 and Swedish Minister in Austria in 1816. He held
a corresponding post at Paris where he resided for thirty-eight
years. He had a large fortune which he used very nobly.
LÖWENHIELM, the Countess of (1783-1859). Fräulein von
Schönburch-Wechselburg married as her first husband, in 1806,
Count Gustavus of Düben, then the Swedish chargé d'Affaires at
Vienna. In 1812 she was left a widow, and in 1826 married the
Count of Löwenhielm, who had previously been the husband of a
Baroness of Gur.
LÖWE-WEIMAR, the Baron François Adolphe de (1801-1854). He
belonged to a family of German Jews, but was converted to
Christianity and came to Paris, where he made a name for himself
in literature. M. Thiers entrusted him with a diplomatic mission
in Russia. He was appointed Consul-General to Bagdad, where he
distinguished himself in 1847 by his devotion during a cholera
epidemic. Afterwards he was Consul-General at Caracas.
LOGERE, M. de. Attaché to the French legation at Berlin.
LOTTUM, Count Charles Henry of (1767-1841). Infantry General and
Minister of State in Prussia under Frederick William III., and
afterwards Minister of the Exchequer. He married Fräulein
Frederica of Lamprecht.
LOUIS-PHILIPPE I.* (1773-1849). King of the French from 1830-1848.
LOUVEL, Louis Pierre (1783-1820). A working saddler whose
political fanaticism led him, on February 13, 1820, as people
were leaving the opera, to assassinate the Duc de Berry, son of
Charles X., nephew of Louis XVIII., with the object of bringing
the dynasty of the Bourbons to an end. He was condemned by the
Court of Peers and executed.