Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
_Philippe Egalité_. He died on the scaffold of the Revolution.
ORLEANS, the Duc d'* (1810-1842). Ferdinand, eldest son of King
Louis-Philippe and Crown Prince.
ORLOFF, Count (1781-1861). Alexis Fedorowitch, took part in all
the wars against Napoleon I. and entered the Russian diplomatic
service in 1828.
P
PAHLEN, Count.* Born in 1775. A Russian diplomatist and
Ambassador at Paris.
PALATINE, the Princess (1616-1684). Anne of Gonzague married
Edward, Count Palatine, son of the Palatine Elector, Frederic V.
and settled at Paris, where she was the ornament of the Court of
Anne of Austria through her beauty and her wit. After a life of
pleasure and political intrigue she suffered an overthrow by
the influence of Mazarin and spent her last days in retirement.
On her death Bossuet delivered a funeral oration upon her, one
of the most remarkable that he composed.
PALFFY the Princess. Born in 1774. Daughter of the Count of
Hohenfeld and wife of Prince Joseph Palffy. She died in 1827.
PALMELLA, the Duchess of. A descendant of Vasco di Gama, she had
married Dom Pedro de Souza Holstein, Duke of Palmella, a
Portuguese statesman.
PALMERSTON, Lord* (1784-1865). English politician; for a long time
Foreign Minister.
PALMYRE, Madame.* A clever Parisian dressmaker.
PARIS, the Comte de (1838-1894). Eldest son of the Duc d'Orléans
and Princess Helena of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the death of
the Comte de Chambord he became the head of the French house.
PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662). One of the greatest and most noble
geniuses of the seventeenth century; a mathematician, physicist
and philosopher. A quarrel between the Jansenists and the
Jesuits gave him the opportunity of showing himself the most
powerful writer in Port Royal.
PASQUIER, Duc Etienne* (1767-1862). Politician and Peer of France.
Appointed Chancellor in 1837.
PASSY, Hippolyte Philibert* (1793-1880). French politician, deputy
and member of the Institute.
PEAN. One of the footmen of the Prince de Talleyrand.
PEEL, Sir Robert* (1788-1850). English statesman and member of
several Cabinets.
PEMBROKE, Lady Catherine. Only daughter of Count Woronzoff,
married in 1808, George Augustus, Lord Pembroke, who died in
1827.
PENELOPE SMITH, Miss (1815-1882). Morganatic wife of Prince
Charles of Naples, Count of Capua. Victor Emanuel recognised her
possession of this title.
PEPIN* (1780-1836). Grocer and accomplice of Fieschi, with whom he
was executed.
PÉRIGORD, the Comte Paul de (1811-1880). Paul Adalbert René de
Talleyrand-Périgord, husband of Mlle. Amicide de Saint-Aignan,
who died in 1854.
PÉRIGORD, Mlle. Pauline de* (1820-1890). Daughter of the Duchesse
de Dino. She married the Marquis Henri de Castellane in 1839.
PÉRIGORD, Boson de (1832). Eldest son of the Duc de Valençay by
his first wife, Mlle. de Montmorency. He afterwards bore the
title of Duc de Talleyrand and de Sagan.
PERPONCHER, the Comte Henri de (1771-1856). Infantry General in
Holland. He became Minister of the Low Countries at the Court of
Frederick William III.
PERPONCHER, the Comtesse de. Died in 1861. Adélaïde, Countess of
Reede, married in 1816, Comte Henri de Perponcher.
PERREGEAUX, the Comte de (1785-1841). After acting as auditor to
the Council of State, he occupied certain administrative posts
under the Empire. At the Restoration he was set aside, but King
Louis-Philippe made him a Peer of France in 1831.
PETETOT, the Abbé Louis Pierre (1801-1887). General Superior of
the Order of the Oratoire, he was first priest of Saint Louis
d'Antin and of Saint Roch, and administered the affairs of the
Order for more than twenty years, resigning in 1884.
PEYRONNET, the Comte de (1778-1854). An _émigré_ during the
Revolution and the Empire, he was elected deputy under the
Restoration and joined the ultra party; as Minister of Justice
under M. de Villèle, he supported every retrograde measure. In
1829 he became Minister of the Interior under the Polignac
Ministry and helped to draw up the ordinances which provoked the
July Revolution. He was arrested and tried by the Court of Peers
and condemned to perpetual imprisonment. He spent six years at
the Fort of Ham, was then pardoned, after which he lived in
complete retirement at his estate of Montferrand near Bordeaux.
PIATOLI, the Abbé Scipion (1750-1809). Born at Florence, he took
orders. Princess Lubomirska, _née_ Czartoryska, who was
travelling in Italy, appointed him tutor to her nephew, Prince
Henry Lubomirski. The Abbé came with her to Poland in 1787, and
Count Ignatius Potocki, who was struck with his capacity,
secured him the post of Secretary to King Stanislas Augustus.
The Abbé Piatoli persuaded the King to join the Polish patriotic
party himself and drew up the Constitution of May 3, 1791, after
taking the chief share in discussion upon it. After the second
partition of Poland he left the country and became tutor to the
household of Princess Dorothea of Courlande. Afterwards, through
the good offices of Prince Adam Czartoryski, he obtained a post
in the service of Russia. Very learned, with a powerful
imagination and lofty ideas, he was strongly imbued with the
principles of Voltaire.
PIUS VII., Pope (1740-1823). Barbé Chiaramonti, a Benedictine
monk, and Bishop of Tivoli, received the purple with the
bishopric of Imola in 1795, and was elected Pope in 1800. He
reorganised his papal states, signed a Concordat with Napoleon,
and came to Paris to crown him as Emperor in 1804. Seven years
afterwards, having refused to drive out the enemies of France,
he saw his states invaded and his provinces were united to the
French Empire. As he had excommunicated the French Emperor he
was forced to undergo a rigorous confinement at Fontainebleau.
The Congress of Vienna restored his possessions in 1814, and he
returned to them. He was so generous as to grant a refuge in
Rome to several members of the family of the deposed Emperor.
PIMODAN, the Marquis de. Born in 1789. Camille de Rarécourt de la
Vallée Marquis de Pimodan, cavalry captain and honorary
gentleman of the Chamber to King Charles X., and knight of the
Legion of Honour. He married Mlle. de Frénilly in 1819.
PISCATORY, Théobald-Emile (1799-1870). He went to Greece under the
Restoration to support the cause of independence. In 1832 he was
elected deputy and afterwards voted with the Conservative
majority. From 1844 to 1846 he was Plenipotentiary Minister in
Greece and cleverly counteracted English influence. In 1846 he
was made Peer of France and in 1847 Spanish Ambassador. He
abandoned political life after the coup d'état of 1851.
PLAISANCE, the Duchesse de (1786-1854). Marie Anne Sophie,
daughter of the Marquis of Barbé Marbois, married Lebrun, Duc de
Plaisance. Witty and somewhat foreign in manner, she left France
at an early age for Greece, where she died.
PLESSEN, Herr von. Died in 1837. In 1832 he was Minister of the
Privy Council of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, and negotiated
the marriage of Princess Helena with the Duc d'Orléans.
POLIGNAC, Prince Jules de* (1780-1847). A Minister of Charles X.
He signed the July Ordinances and was condemned by the Court of
Peers, but released after the amnesty of 1837.
POLIGNAC, the Princesse de (1792-1864). Charlotte Parkyns,
daughter of Lord Radcliffe, married as her first husband the
Marquis de Choiseul and as her second, in 1821, Prince Jules de
Polignac.
POMPONNE, the Marquis of (1618-1699). Simon Arnauld, Marquis de
Pomponne, son of Arnauld d'Andilly; King's Councillor in 1644,
he fell into disgrace with Fouquet, and was relegated to Verdun
in 1662. Three years later he returned to favour, and was sent
to Stockholm as Ambassador; afterwards the King appointed him
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and under his administration the
glorious peace of Nimwegen was signed. He again fell into
disfavour and did not return to office until after the death of
Louvois.
PONSONBY, Lord* (1770-1855). English Ambassador at Constantinople
from 1822 to 1827.
PONTOIS, Comte Charles Edouard de (1792-1871). A French
diplomatist under Louis-Philippe; he was Plenipotentiary
Minister of France in Brazil and then in the United States;
afterwards he was French Ambassador at Constantinople. In 1846
he entered the Chamber of Peers.
POTEMKIN, Ivan Alexiewitch (1778-1849). A Russian diplomatist and
privy councillor. He was appointed Ambassador at Rome in 1840
and died at Naples.
POZZO DI BORGO, Count (1764-1842). A Corsican by birth, he was a
diplomatist in the service of Russia, and well known as
Ambassador at Paris.
PRASLIN, Marquis Charles Hughes Théobald de (1805-1847). He took
the title of Duc on his father's death; became Knight of Honour
to the Duchess d'Orléans in 1837; was a member of the Chamber of
Deputies from 1839 to 1842, and was raised to the Peerage in
1845. In 1824 he married the daughter of Marshal Sébastiani.
Both came to a tragic end in 1847, as M. de Praslin killed his
wife in a fit of madness and then committed suicide.
PREISSAC, Comte François Jean de (1778-1852). Prefect of the
Gironde and Peer of France in 1832. He married Mlle. de
Francfort, daughter of a retired Colonel of a Royal Cavalry
Regiment.
PRIMATE OF FRANKFORT, Prince Charles of Dalberg (1744-1817). He
took orders and became Privy Councillor in 1772 of the Elector
of Mayence, then Governor of Erfurth and coadjutor to the
Archbishop of Mayence, whom he succeeded in 1802. In 1806 he
became Prince Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine,
Sovereign Prince of Ratisbon and Grand Duke of Fulda. Charles of
Dalberg solemnised at Frankfort in April 1810 the marriage of
the Princess of Courlande with the Comte Edmond de Périgord,
afterwards Duc de Dino, and after his father's death Duc de
Talleyrand.
PRUSSIA, Prince Frederick of (1794-1863). Only son of Prince
Ludwig of Prussia and of Princess Frederica of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Queen Louise.
PRUSSIA, Princess Frederick of (1799-1882). Daughter of the Duke
of Anhalt Bernbourg, she had married Prince Frederick in 1817.
PRUSSIA, Princess William of (1785-1846). Amelie Marianne,
daughter of the Landgrave Ludwig of Hesse-Homburg, married, in
1804, Prince William of Prussia, brother of Frederick William
III.
PRUSSIA, Prince William of (1797-1888). Second son of King
Frederick William III. As his elder brother had no children, he
assumed the title of Prince of Prussia in 1840, when Frederick
William IV. came to the throne. He succeeded the latter as King
in 1861, and in 1870 became the first Emperor of Germany of the
House of Hohenzollern.
PRUSSIA, Princess William of (1816-1890). Princess Augusta of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach married, in 1829, Prince William, son of
Frederick William III. She afterwards became the Empress
Augusta.
PRUSSIA, Prince Charles of (1801-1883). Third son of King
Frederick William III. and of Queen Louise.
PRUSSIA, Princess Charles of (1808-1877). Marie, daughter of the
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, married Prince Charles of Prussia in
1827.
PRUSSIA, Prince Albert of (1809-1872). Fourth son of King