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Page 1. 1. 1. Il y a quatre ans qu'à mon retour de la Terre Sainte. Chateaubriand commenced this chapter of his Mémoires between 1811 and 1812 at his small country house near Aubray.

1. 9. spatîo brevi spem longam reseces is a quotation from the fi rat book of the Odes of Horace.

1. 17. Si jamais les Bourbons remontent sur le trône. At thia date Napoléon I was at the height of his power. In 1814 the Bourbons were once more reigning in Paris.

1. 27. Lorsque Voltaire naquit à Châtenay, le 20 février 1694. It is now gênerai ly accepted that Voltaire or, to use his real name, François-Marie Arouet, was born not at Châtenay but in Paris.

Page 2. 1.1. V auteur du Génie du Christianisme. Le Génie du Christianisme is Chateaubriand' s most celebrated work, vide Introduction.

1. 5. au grand désert d'Atala. Chateaubriand's romance Atala had been published in 1801. The scène of it lies chiefly in the then uncivïlized tracts of North America.

1. 15. les Martyrs, les Abencérages, Vîtinéraire et Moïse. For a notice of thèse works see Introduction.