ubriand, who has not forgotten the author in
the minister, received a handsome compliment at Verona from a literary
sovereign: "Ah! Monsieur C., are you related to that Chateaubriand
who--who--who has written _something?_" (ecrit _quelque chose!_) It is
said that the author of Atala repented him for a moment of his
legitimacy. [Francois Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
published _Les Martyrs ou le Triomphe de la religion chretienne_ in
1809.]

[343] [Count Capo d'Istria (b. 1776)--afterwards President of Greece.
The count was murdered, in September, 1831, by the brother and son of a
Mainote chief whom he had imprisoned (note to ed. 1832). Byron may have
believed that Capo d'Istria was still in the service of the Czar, but,
according to Allison, his advocacy of his compatriots the Greeks had led
to his withdrawal from the Russian Foreign Office, and prevented his
taking part in the Congress. It was, however, stated in the papers that
he had been summoned, and was on his way to Verona.]

[344] [Jean Mathieu Felicite, Duc de Montmorenci (1766-1826), was, in
his youth, a Jacobin. He proposed, August 4, 1789, to abrogate feudal
rights, and June 15, 1790, to abolish the nobility. He was superseded as
plenipotentiary by Chateaubriand, and on his return to Paris created a
duke. Before the end of the year he was called upon to resign his
portfolio as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The king disliked him, and
there were personal disagreements between him and the Prime Minister, M.
de Villele.

The following "gazette" appeared in the _Moniteur_:--

"Ordonnance du Roi. Signe Louis. Art 1^er^ Le Vicomte de Chateaubriand,
pair de France, est nomme ministre secretaire d'etat au departement des
affaires etrangeres. Louis par la grace de Dieu Roi de France et de
Navarre.

"Art. 1^er^ Le Duc Mathieu de Montmorenci, pair de France, est nomme
ministre d'Etat, et membre de notre Conseil prive.

"Dimanche, 29 Decembre, 1822."

"On Tuesday, January 1, 1823," writes Chateaubriand, _Congress_, 1838,
i. 258, "we crossed the bridges, and went to sleep in that minister's
bed, which was not made for us,--a bed in which one sleeps but little,
and in which one remains only for a short time."]

[345] {576}[From Pope's line on Lord Peterborough, _Imitations of
Horace_, Sat. i. 132.]

[346] [Marie Louise, daughter of Francis I. of Austria, was born
December 12, 1791, and died December 18, 1849. She was married to
Napoleon, April 2, 181