Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
Frederick William IV., he married, in 1830, Princess Marianne of
the Low Countries, whom he divorced in 1849. In 1853 he
contracted a morganatic marriage with Fräulein von Rauch, who
was given the title of Countess of Hohenau.
PRUSSIA, Princess Albert of (1810-1883). Marianne, daughter of the
King of the Low Countries, married, in 1830, Prince Albert of
Prussia, the youngest son of Frederick William III., by whom she
had two children. On her divorce in 1849 she left the Prussian
court.
PRUSSIA, Prince Adalbert of (1811-1837). Son of Prince William of
Prussia, brother of Frederick William III. and of the Princess
of Hesse-Homburg. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Prussian
Navy. He contracted a morganatic marriage in 1850 with Therese
Elssler, who received the title of Baroness of Barnim.
PRUSSIA, Princess Marie of (1825-1889). Sister of the foregoing.
In 1842 she married the Crown Prince of Bavaria, who became King
in 1848 under the name of Maximilian II., and died in 1864.
PÜCKLER, Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich (1795-1871). An officer in
the Life Guards at Dresden in 1804; he entered the Russian
service, in which he remained from 1813 to 1815, and married in
1817 the daughter of Prince Hardenburg, from whom he separated
in 1826. In 1863 he became a Member of the House of Lords in
Prussia. He travelled a great deal, and was a lover of parks and
gardens.
PÜCKLER, Princess (1776-1854). Princess Anna Hardenberg married
the Count of Pappenheim as her first husband in 1796. In 1817
she divorced him to marry Prince Hermann Pückler, from whom she
separated in 1826.
PUTUS, Count Malte (1807-1837). Attaché to the Prussian Legation
at Naples. He died of consumption. His sister was the Countess
Lottum.
Q
QUATREMÈRE DE QUINCY, Antoine Chrysostome (1755-1849). At an
early age he devoted himself to the study of antiquity and art,
and produced important works on these subjects. He was Deputy
at Paris to the Legislative Assembly of 1791; member of the
Council of the Five Hundred in 1797; theatrical censor in
1815; Professor of Archæology in 1818; and he was a member of
the Academy of Inscriptions and Literature and of the Academy
of Fine Arts.
QUÉLEN, Mgr. de,* (1778-1839). Coadjutor to the Cardinal de
Talleyrand Périgord, whom he succeeded as Archbishop of Paris in
1821.
R
RACHEL, Mlle. (1820-1858). A great tragic actress. She was the
daughter of a poor Jewish pedlar called Felix. After a youth
spent in poverty she entered the Conservatoire, made her first
appearance at the Gymnase, and was admitted in 1838 to the
Théâtre Français, where she gave an admirable exposition of the
finest parts of Corneille and Racine. In 1856 she undertook a
tour in America and contracted a pulmonary disease, of which
she soon died.
RACZYNSKI, Count Athanasius (1788-1874). A diplomatist in the
Prussian service. For several years he was Minister at Lisbon
and Madrid, showing the utmost unselfishness and never drawing
his salary. The money thus accumulated is now in the hands of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is of the greatest service
to diplomatists in distress. Count Raczynski was a very wealthy
man, and made a fine collection of pictures, which he bequeathed
to the Crown. He wrote several books upon art; his political
correspondence has also been published. In 1816 he married
Princess Anna Radziwill. He was a member of the House of Lords
and a Privy Councillor.
RADZIWILL, Princess Louise (1770-1836). Daughter of Prince
Ferdinand of Prussia, youngest brother of Frederick the Great.
She married Prince Antoine Radziwill in 1796.
RADZIWILL, Prince William (1797-1870). An infantry general in the
service of Prussia, he commanded in succession several army
corps, and was a member of the House of Lords. His first wife,
whom he married in 1825, was his cousin Helene Radziwill, who
died in 1827. In 1832 he married the Countess Matilda Clary. He
was the eldest son of Prince Antoine Radziwill and of Princess
Louise of Prussia.
RADZIWILL, Princess William (1806-1896). Matilda, daughter of
Prince Charles Clary-Aldringen and of the Countess Louisa
Chotek, married Prince William Radziwill in 1832.
RADZIWILL, Princess Boguslaw (1811-1890). Léontine, third daughter
of Prince Charles Clary, married, in 1832, Prince Boguslaw
Radziwill, youngest son of Prince Antoine Radziwill.
RANTZAU, the Comte Josias de (1609-1650). He entered the French
service in 1635 under King Louis XIII., having previously served
the Prince of Orange, Christian IV., King of Denmark, Gustavus
Adolphus, and the Emperor Ferdinand II. He was Marshal of
France.
RANTZAU, Count Antony of (1793-1849). Chamberlain and captain in
the service of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
RAQUENA, the Count of (1821-1878). Son of the Duke of Rocca, he
bore this title after his father's death. He was a Spanish
artillery officer, and afterwards served in the Royal Halberdier
Corps and died with the rank of general. He was a great lord, a
great gambler, and led a most adventurous life.
RATISBONNE, the Abbé Marie Théodore (1802-1884). Son of a Jewish
banker of Strasburg, he had just concluded his study of the law
when he was converted to Catholicism and took Orders. He was
known as a writer and a preacher, and founded the congregation
of Notre Dame of Sion.
RATISBONNE, Alphonse (1812-1884). Brother of Théodore Ratisbonne.
He was also converted to Catholicism and entered the
congregation of Notre Dame of Sion, founded by his brother.
RAUCH, Christian Daniel (1777-1857). A famous Prussian sculptor.
He went to Rome in 1804 for study, returned to Berlin in 1811,
where he was greatly patronised by the Court.
RAULLIN, M. French Councillor of State.
RAVIGNAN, the Abbé de (1795-1858). Born at Bayonne, he began his
career in the magistracy. In obedience to a call he then left
the world, entered the Jesuit seminary, and afterwards the
Jesuit Order. He was distinguished for his lofty morality and
his power as a preacher. He delivered the funeral oration of
Monseigneur de Quélen, Archbishop of Paris.
RAYNEVAL, Maximilian de (1778-1836). A French diplomatist who
received the title of Comte and the peerage for his services.
RAZUMOWSKI, the Countess. She was born Princess Wiasemski.
RÉCAMIER, Madame* (1777-1849). Famous for her beauty and for the
deep friendship which united her with the greatest literary
personalities of her time, in particular with Chateaubriand.
RECKE, the Baroness of (1754-1833). Elizabeth Charlotte, Countess
of Medem, sister of the Duchess of Courlande, married, in 1774,
the Baron of Recke. She was divorced from him in 1776 and lost
her only daughter in the following year. She travelled a great
deal in Italy and Germany, and was in connection with all the
literary men of her age. She was herself the author of several
works.
REDERN, the Countess of (1772-1842). Wilhelmina of Otterstaedt
married Count Wilhelm Jacob of Redern and had two sons, William
and Henry.
REDERN, Count William of (1802-1880). A great Prussian landowner,
a member of the House of Lords, and afterwards High Chamberlain
at the Court of the Emperor William I.
REDERN, the Countess of (1811-1875). Bertha Ienisz, daughter of a
Senator of Hamburg, married, in 1834, Count William of Redern.
She had only one daughter, who died when a minor.
REEDE, the Countess of (1769-1847); _née_ Krusemacht, daughter and
sister of two Prussian generals of that name. In 1823, when the
Crown Prince of Prussia was married, she was appointed chief
lady at the Court of the Crown Princess.
REINHARD, Count Charles Frederick (1761-1837). Born at Würtemberg,
he studied at the University of Tübingen and knew Goethe. He
entered the French diplomatic service in 1792 and was
Plenipotentiary Minister at Florence in 1797, and in 1799
replaced the Prince de Talleyrand at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. He was made a Peer of France in 1832, after having been
made Count in 1814. He was a Member of the Academy of
Inscriptions and Literature and of the Academy of Moral and
Political Science.
REUILLY, M. A lawyer, Mayor of Versailles, and Knight of the
Legion of Honour. In 1840 he was Deputy for Seine-et-Oise, and
was member of the Constituent Assembly in 1848.
RÉMUSAT, Comte Charles de* (1797-1875). French writer and
politician.
RETZ, the Cardinal de* (1614-1679). He played a great part during
the Fronde and left some remarkable memoirs.
REUSS-SCHLEITZ-KOESTRITZ, Prince Henry LXIV. (1787-1856). General
and Field Marshal in the service of Austria and divisional
commander at Prague. He led the 7th regiment of Hussars.
RUESS-SCHLEITZ, Princess Sophie Adelaide. Born in 1800; daughter
of Prince Henri LI. of Reuss-Ebersdorff.
RIBEAUPIERRE, Count Alexandre de (1785-1865). Born of a family of
French Switzerland. His grandfather went to Russia in the suite
of the Princess Sophie of Zerbst, afterwards Catherine II. His
father had married the sister of General Bibikoff; he was
Major-General when he died at the siege of Ismail. Alexandre de
Ribeaupierre devoted himself to diplomacy, and became Russian
Minister at Constantinople and Berlin. He was made a Count in
1856 and married Mlle. Potemkin.
RICHELIEU, the Duc de (1696-1788). Marshal of France and a
brilliant figure at the Court of Louis XIV. and XV. In 1720 he
entered the French Academy and became a friend of Voltaire. On
the female side he was a great-great-nephew of the Cardinal,
godson of Louis XIV. and of the Duchesse de Bourgogne. He first
saw service under Villars. While Ambassador at Vienna he showed
dexterity in arranging an agreement between France and Austria.
After some military exploits in Germany during the Seven Years
War, he spent the remainder of his life in intrigue and
pleasures.
RIGNY, Comte Henri-Gauthier de* (1783-1835). French admiral.
Several times Minister and Ambassador at Naples.
RIGNY, Vicomte Alexandre de (1790-1873). Son of a cavalry officer
and of the sister of the Abbé Louis, he left the military school
at Fontainebleau in 1807, and took part in the campaigns of
Prussia, Poland, Austria, and Spain. As field-marshal in 1830,
he joined the first expedition to Constantinople in 1836, and
though he displayed incontestable bravery during the retreat,
the gravest charges were brought against him by General Clausel.
The Council of War unanimously acquitted him in 1837, but he was
relegated to the command of the subdivision of the Indre until
1848 and placed on the retired list in 1849.
RIGNY, Mlle. Auguste de. She was the daughter of General de Rigny
and heiress of her uncle, Baron Louis.
RIVERS, Lady, died in 1866. Susan Georgiana Leveson Gower,
daughter of Lord Granville. She married in 1833 George Pitt,
Lord Rivers.
ROHAN, the Duc de (1789-1869). Fernand de Rohan Chabot followed
his father into exile while a child. He then returned to France
and entered the army at the age of twenty with the rank of
sub-lieutenant of Hussars. At that time bearing the title of
Prince de Léon, he was present at the battle of Wagram and
became aide-de-camp to the Emperor. In 1814 he was made a