L'homme qui ne donne aujourd'hui, i.e. Napoléon I

1. 30. remonter le penchant de mes belles années, ' to travel once more over the gentle incline of my youth.'

Page 3. 1. 7. Chérin was a genealogist and recorder of the Orders of Saint Lazare, Saint Michel, and the Holy Spirit.

1. 8. de V Argenticre. Argentière and Remiremont were conventual establishments for ladies of noble birth. The abbess of the latter ranked as a princess of the Empire.

1. 15. par l'invasion de l'orthographe française, ' through the introduction of French spelling.' The name would originally be spelt as Breton.

1. 22. saint Louis. Louis IX (1226-1270). He conducted the 7th Crusade, and was defeated at Mansourah in Egypt, hère written Massoure, by the Mamelukes. He was taken prisoner, and after his release he returned to France ; but, fired by his zeal for the Cross, he again left for Palestine to conduct the 8th Crusade in 1270. On his way he delayed at Tunis in order to convert the king of that country to Christianity, and died there of the plague.

He is the mediaeval conception of ail that is implied by chivalry in the twofold life of the soldier and the saint.

1. 27. un écu de gueules semé de fleurs de lis d'or, ' a field gules charged with fleurs de lis d'or.'

1. 30. bénéfices simples. Bénéfice was the name given to the land or fiefs granted by the early Frankish kings to those who shared in their conquests.

1. 33. V ordre de Malte was the most ancient of the half military, half religious orders which were brought into being by the exigences of the Crusades. It was finally abolished in 1798. Chateaubriand actually received what is known as the ' first clérical tonsure ' in order to enter it.