[Footnote 244: The çoisRenéCounty of Neuchâtel passed in 1707, on the death of Marie Duchesse de Nemours, the last of the Longuevilles, to Frederic I. King of Prussia, to whom it was guaranteed by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. In 1806, Napoleon seized it and erected it into a principality for Marshal Berthier; in 1815, it returned to Prussia, while remaining a Swiss canton. Neuchâtel declared its independence in 1848; this independence was recognised by Prussia in 1857.--T.]
[Footnote 245: Isabelle Agnès de Sainte-Hyacinthe de Charrière (1745-1805), _née_ van Tuyll, author, under the pseudonym of the Abbé de La Tour, of the _Lettres Neuchâteloises_ (1784), _Caliste, ou Lettres écrites de Lausanne_ (1786), etc.--T.]
[Footnote 246: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), the eminent French critic. His appreciation of Madame de Charrière occurs in his _Portraits de femmes_, published in 1844.--T.]
[Footnote 247: Characters in the _Lettres Neuchâteloises._--B.]
[Footnote 248: Louis Fauche-Borel (1762-1829), a Neuchâtel printer and Royalist agent. He devoted himself to the cause of the Bourbons and was repeatedly imprisoned under the Directorate and Consulate. He met with nothing but ingratitude from the Restoration and returned to Neuchâtel, where he lived in penury and at last put an end to his life in the manner stated by Chateaubriand.--T.]
[Footnote 249: Louis Comte de Pourtalès (1773-1848), Governor of Neuchâtel.--B.]
[Footnote 250: Clovis King of the Franks (465-511), founder of the French Monarchy, embraced Christianity and was baptised and crowned at Rheims at the hands of St. Remy, in 496.--T.]
[Footnote 251: Charles VII. King of France (1403-1461), surnamed the Victorious, defeated the English with the aid of Joan of Arc in 1429, and was crowned at Rheims in the same year.--T.]
[Footnote 252: Joan of Arc (1410-1431) was present at the coronation of Charles VII. on the 17th of July 1429. She was subsequently captured by the English and burned by them at the stake, on the 30th of May 1431, at Rouen.--T.]
"I have come from my country No taller than a boot, With-a _mi_, with-a _mi_, With-a my marmot."--T.
"Ah, what will they say from the dust of the grave. The generous spirits of sovereigns brave? What will Pharamond say, Clodion and Clovis, Our Pepins, our Martels, our Charleses and Louis, Who by blood and by peril, a warrior band, Have acquired for their sons such a beautiful land?"--T.