[Footnote 312: Chateaubriand is çoisRenéhere himself misled and unconsciously calumniates the poor prefects. M. de Villèle, better informed than he, wrote on the 8th of August 1827:
"The prefects are alarmed at the mere idea of a general election. They say that, if it were held this year, the result would be detestable."--B. ]
[Footnote 313: The censorship was revived by an ordinance dated 24 June 1827 and countersigned by Messieurs de Villèle, de Corbière and de Peyronnet.--B.]
[Footnote 314: _Cf. Du Rétablissement de la censure par l'ordonnance du 24 juin 1827._ Paris: Ladvocat, 1827.--B.]
[Footnote 315: The Chamber of Deputies was dissolved on the 5th of November 1827. The elections took place on the 17th and 24th.--B.]
[Footnote 316: Royer-Collard was elected at Vitry, Châlons, Paris, Lyons, Neufchâteau, Melun and Béziers.--B.]
[Footnote 317: M. de Peyronnet was rejected at Bourges and at Bordeaux.--B.]
[Footnote 320: An ordinance creating seventy-six new peers was issued simultaneously with that dissolving the Chamber of Deputies.--B.]
[Footnote 321: Jacques Laffitte (1767-1844), the banker and statesman, Governor of the Bank of France (1814), Minister of Finance and Premier (1830-1831).--T.]
[Footnote 322: Casimir Périer (1777-1832) was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies, after the Revolution of 1830, and succeeded Laffitte as Prime Minister in 1831. He was the grandfather of M. Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Périer, who was President of the French Republic from June 1894 to January 1895.--T.]
[Footnote 323: M. de Villèle resigned office on the 2nd of December 1827.]
[Footnote 324: Joseph Marie Comte Portalis (1778-1858), a count of the Empire (1810), peer of France (1819), Keeper of the Seals (1828), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1829), First President of the Court of Appeal (1829-1852).--B.]
[Footnote 325: Lieutenant-general Louis Victor Vicomte de Caux (1775-_circa_ 1845), raised to the peerage by Louis-Philippe in 1832.--T.]
[Footnote 326: Antoine Comte Roy (1764-1847) was three times Minister of Finance (1818, 1819-1821 and 1828-1829). In 1798, the Duc de Bouillon made over the greater part of his property to M. Roy, in return for an annuity of 300,000 francs; the duke died a few months later, and M. Roy found himself one of the richest landed proprietors in France.--B.]