[18] Philipp Klingmann (1762-1824) was better known as an actor than as an
    author.—­ED.

[19] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, VII, 12, 1.—­ED.

[20] “What business have you?  None, I travel for amusement.  Strange!  What
    is there strange in travelling to see a fine country?”

[21] Le Compere Mathieu, a satirical novel by the Abbe Henri Joseph
    Dulaurens, published 1765 and sometimes (though wrongly) attributed to
    Voltaire.  One of the prominent talkers in the dialogues is Pere Jean
    de Domfront.—­ED.

[22] Horace, Epist., I, i, 15.—­ED.

[23] This altar, inscribed Deae Victoriae Sacrum (Corpus inscr. lat. 
    XIII, 8252), was erected by the Roman fleet on the Rhine at the place
    now called Altsburg near Cologne and, after its discovery, taken to
    Bonn, where it was set up on the Remigius-Platz (now called
    Roemer-Platz) on Dec, 3, 1809.  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.  The Schweizer
    family is now extinct.—­ED.