Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
MICHAEL ANGELO BUONAROTTI (1475-1564). Famous Italian painter,
sculptor and architect. The most learned and profound of
draughtsmen, he became architect of the Basilica of St. Peter at
Rome after the death of Bramante, and built the sublime cupola
which is its chief glory.
MIRAFLORES, the Marquis de* (1792-1867). Spanish diplomatist and
man of letters.
MOIRA, Lord (1808-1843). Eldest son of the first Marquis of
Hastings. He was Chamberlain in 1830 to King William IV. of
England.
MOLÉ, the Comte Mathieu* (1788-1855). French politician of an old
parliamentary family.
MOLÉ, the Comtesse.* Died in 1845. _Née_ Mlle. de la Briche.
MOLITOR, Marshal, Comte (1770-1849). He served throughout the wars
of the Revolution and the Empire; was exiled at the Second
Restoration and recalled in 1818 to his duties as
Inspector-General. He commanded the second Army Corps during the
Spanish War in 1823 and was then made Marshal and Peer of
France. Under the July government, he was governor of the
Invalides and Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour.
MOLLIEN, the Comtesse* (1785-1878). Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Marie
Amélie.
MONTALEMBERT, the Comte Charles de (1810-1870). French publicist
and politician. One of the most brilliant defenders of Liberal
Catholicism.
MONTALIVET, the Comte de (1801-1880). A pupil of the Polytechnic
School, he afterwards sat in the Chamber of Peers among the
Liberals. Louis-Philippe appointed him Minister of the Interior
in 1830 and afterwards Minister of Education and Public Worship.
As the supervisor of the civil list he founded the museum of
Versailles, increased the museum of the Louvre, and restored the
palaces of Fontainebleau, Saint-Cloud, Trianon and Pau. He
entered the Academy of Fine Arts in 1840. The events of 1848
sent him back to private life.
MONTBRETON, Madame de. Clémence Marie de Nicolaï, daughter of the
Marquis and Marquise Scipion de Nicolaï, whose name appears in
the Lafarge trial.
MONTEBELLO, Napoléon Auguste Lannes de (1801-1874). Son of the
famous marshal. Diplomatist and French Minister; he was made a
Peer of France at the age of fourteen by King Louis XVIII. He
supported the July monarchy and afterwards the Empire.
MONTENON, M. de. A young man of La Creuse who was a constant
visitor at the Castle of Valençay.
MONTESQUIOU, the Comtesse Anatole de, born in 1794. Elodie,
daughter of the Comte Henri de Montesquiou-Fezensac de
Bacquencourt, married her cousin-german in 1809, who was
aide-de-camp to Napoleon I. and afterwards Peer of France. She
was the first lady at the Court of the Duchesse d'Orléans.
MONTESSUY, the Comte de. A French diplomatist who acted as French
Minister at Hanover in 1849, at Parma in 1855, at Darmstadt and
at Frankfort from 1855 to 1858. He married a daughter of Prince
Paul of Würtemberg by a morganatic marriage.
MONTFORT, Mlle. de (1820-1904). The Princess Mathilde, daughter of
Jerome, King of Westphalia, and of Catherine, Princess of
Würtemberg. She married in 1841 the Comte Anatole Demidoff,
Prince de San Donato.
MONTMORENCY, the Duchesse de* (1774-1846). _Née_ Mlle. de
Matignon. She was the mother of Baron Raoul de Montmorency, of
the Princesse de Beauffremont Courtenay, and of the Duchesse de
Valençay.
MONTMORENCY, Raoul, Baron de* (1790-1862). He took the title of
Duc on his father's death in 1846.
MONTMORENCY, the Duchesse Mathieu de. Died in 1858. Hortense de
Chevreuse-Luynes had married Mathieu de Montmorency-Laval. Her
only daughter was the first wife of the Duc Sosthène de la
Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville.
MONTPENSIER, the Duchesse de* (1627-1693). Known under the name of
_la Grande Mademoiselle_; she was the daughter of Duc Gaston
d'Orléans.
MONTROND, the Comte Casimir de.* Friend of M. de Talleyrand and
sometimes entrusted with unimportant diplomatic missions.
MORTEMART, Arthur de. Only son of the Duc de Mortemart who died
from injuries received by a fall from his horse in October 1840.
MOTTEVILLE, Mme. de (1621-1689). Françoise Bertaut married in 1639
Nicolas Langlois, Seigneur de Motteville, who died in 1641. On
the death of Louis XIII. in 1643, Anne of Austria called Mme. de
Motteville to her Court, and admitted her to her intimacy. Mme.
de Motteville left very interesting memoirs behind her.
MOUNIER, Baron Claude Philippe Edouard (1784-1843). Auditor to the
Council of State under the Empire, then Governor of Saxe-Weimar
and afterwards of Lower Silesia. In 1809 he received the title
of Baron, and in 1813 the post of Overseer of the Crown
Buildings. Louis XVIII. confirmed him in this position and made
him a Peer in 1819. He retained his seat in the Chamber of Peers
and showed much talent in many discussions.
MUÑOZ, Fernando (1810-1873). Of lowly parentage, he entered the
Spanish Army at an early age and became a Life Guard. Queen
Christina fell violently in love with him and contracted a
morganatic marriage with him three months after the death of
Ferdinand VII. Muñoz showed no ambition and only consented to
become Duke of Rianzares, noble of Spain and knight of the
Golden Fleece.
MUNSTER, Lord (1794-1842). George Fitz-Clarence, natural son of
King William IV. and Mrs. Jordan. He entered the army at a very
early age and became Major-General, member of the Privy Council,
aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria and received the title of Lord
Munster.
MURAT, Mme. (1782-1839). Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon I.
She married General Murat in 1800. In 1806 she was Grand Duchess
of Berg and Queen of Naples in 1808. She became a widow in 1815
and then retired to Austria and afterwards to Florence where she
died.
N
NAPIER, Sir Charles (1786-1860). A Naval Captain in 1810, he went
through the Portugal Campaign. In 1815 he was placed on the
retired list, but in 1829 he entered the service of Dom Pedro
of Portugal with successful results. On his return to England
he was elected member of the House of Commons in 1834,
appointed Commodore in 1839, Rear-Admiral in 1846, and
Vice-Admiral in 1853. In 1840 he supported the Turkish Fleet
during the Syrian Expedition; but in 1853 he was less fortunate
and failed before Cronstadt.
NAPLES, the King of (1811-1859). Ferdinand II.,* son of King
Francis I. and of Isabella of Spain.
NAPLES, the Queen of (1812-1836). Maria Christina, daughter of the
King of Sardinia, Victor Emanuel I. She married King Ferdinand
II. in 1832.
NAPLES, Prince Charles Ferdinand of (1811-1862). Brother of the
Count of Syracuse and morganatic husband of Miss Penelope Smith,
by whom he had two children. His son bore the title of Count
Mascali.
NAPLES, Prince Leopold of (1813-1860). (_See_ Syracuse, Count of.)
NEALE, the Countess Pauline (1779-1869). Of an Irish family which
had been settled in Prussia for several generations. The
Countess Neale was lady of honour to Princess Louise of Prussia
and married Prince Antoine Radziwill in 1795.
NEIGRE, the Baron (1774-1847). He enlisted as a volunteer in 1790,
and had a brilliant career in the wars of the First Empire. In
1813 he was general of division; afterwards he supported the
Bourbons, took part in the siege of Antwerp and held a seat in
the Chamber of Peers until his death.
NEIPPERG, Count Alfred of (1807-1865). Austrian Chamberlain and
Major-General in the army of Würtemberg. He married as his
second wife in 1840 Princess Maria of Würtemberg.
NEMOURS, the Duchesse de (1625-1701). Marie d'Orléans, wife of
Henry II., Duc de Savoie-Nemours, her cousin. In 1690 she
obtained the Principality of Neuchâtel. She has left graceful
and lively memoirs of her life.
NEMOURS, the Duc de* (1814-1896). Second son of King
Louis-Philippe.
NESSELRODE, Count* (1780-1862). Russian diplomatist and afterwards
Imperial Chancellor of Russia.
NESSELRODE, Countess, died in 1849. She was the daughter of Count
Gourieff, who was Russian Financial Minister.
NEUMANN, Baron. Austrian diplomatist who married the daughter of
the Duke of Beaufort, in England.
NEY, the wife of the Marshal. Duchesse d'Elchingen, Princesse de
la Moskowa. _Née_ Aglaé Louise de Lascans, she had married
Marshal Ney in 1802. Her mother had held a court post under
Queen Marie Antoinette which had brought her daughter into
connection with the Dauphine during their youth.
NICOLAÏ, the Marquise Scipion de, _née_ Lameth. She was the mother
of Madame de Léautaud and Madame de Montbreton, who were
implicated in the charge of diamond-stealing which arose in the
Lafarge trial.
NICOLE, Pierre (1625-1695). Moralist, theologian and
controversialist, one of the most remarkable writers of Port
Royal where he lectured upon literature. With Arnaud and Pascal
he wrote against the Jesuits and was involved in the
prosecutions directed against the Jansenists. He was obliged to
leave France in 1679 and could only return through the
intervention of Mgr. du Harlay, Archbishop of Paris.
NINA LASSAVE. Daughter of Laurence Petit for whom Fieschi had
conceived an ardent passion in his prison at Embrun. Nina, who
was fifteen years of age, had been left to Fieschi by Laurence.
NOAILLES, the Duc Paul de* (1802-1885). At the age of twenty he
succeeded to the peerage on the death of his great-uncle, the
Duc Jean de Noailles.
NOAILLES, the Vicountesse de* (1792-1851). Daughter of the Duc de
Poix, she married her cousin the Vicomte Alfred de Noailles.
NOAILLES, the Comte Maurice de. Born in 1808, he married in 1842
his cousin Mlle. Pauline de Noailles, daughter of the Duc de
Noailles.
NORTON, Mrs., born in 1808. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was
the granddaughter of Sheridan. Her intimacy with Lord Melbourne
was notorious and her husband began a suit against her for
divorce in 1836, which caused much stir. The jury acquitted Lord
Melbourne, notwithstanding the strong presumption against him.
Mrs. Norton was separated from her husband and acquired a
certain notoriety in English literature by her novels and
newspaper articles.
O
O'CONNELL, Daniel* (1775-1847). Patriot and Irish agitator.
O'CONNELL, Maurice. Died in 1853. Eldest son of Daniel O'Connell,
whose policy he continued in the House of Commons.
OFFALIA, the Comte d' (1777-1843). Spanish statesman. At first he
was secretary to the embassy in Washington in 1800; in 1823 he
became Minister of Justice; Ambassador at Paris in 1828;
Minister of the Interior in 1832; head of the Cabinet and
Foreign Minister in 1837.
OLLIVIER, l'Abbé Nicolas Théodore. Born in 1798. Priest of
Saint-Roch at Paris, he was appointed Bishop of Evreux in 1841.
OMPTEDA, the Baroness* (1767-1843). _Née_ the Countess of
Schlippenbach.
ORANGE, Prince William of* (1793-1849). He ascended the throne of
Holland in 1840.
ORANGE, Princess of.* By birth Anne Paulowna, daughter of the
Emperor Paul of Russia.
ORIE, Dr. Doctor of Bourgueil in Touraine. He died suddenly on the
road between Benais and Bourgueil. On the spot where he expired
a column has been raised with this inscription: "On this spot
died Dr. Orie, July 14, 1846."
ORLEANS, the Duc d'* (1741-1793). Louis Philippe Joseph, called