It Is Now In The Provincial Museum.

- ED.

[24] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, vi, 20, 3. - ED.

[25] August Lafontaine (1758-1831), born in Brunswick of a family of French protestants, was the very prolific and now quite forgotten author of many novels and novelettes. - ED.

[26] From Ernst Moritz Arndt's (1779-1860) celebrated poem, Des Deutschen Vaterland. - ED.

[27] There seems to be much truth in this opinion, though the question of the intrigues of Louis XVIII with Robespierre is still shrouded in obscurity. Some pages of General Thiebault's memoirs might have cleared it up, but they have been torn out from the manuscript (Memoires du General Baron Thiebault, vol. I, p. 273). Louis XVIII paid a pension to Robespierre's sister, Charlotte. - ED.

[28] Sir Charles Stewart, created Lord Stewart In 1814; he was a half-brother of Lord Castlereagh. - ED.

[29] The same story is given, with slight differences, by Lafayette himself (Memoires, vol. V, p. 472-3; Paris and Leipzig, 1838). See also Souvenirs historiques et parlementaires du Comte de Pontecoulant, vol. III, p. 428 (Paris, 1863). Major Frye's narrative is by far the oldest and seems the most trustworthy. - ED.

[30] The house in question was built about 1780 by Nicolas de Pigage for the rich merchant, Franz von Schweizer; Pigage was the son of the architect of King Stanislas at Nancy. The Schweizer palace became later on the Hotel de Russie and was demolished about 1890, the Imperial Post Office having been erected in its place.

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