Note 44 — Chapter 26 Warnings—The Promotion Office—A Minister’s Secretariat—The Third Section—The Story of a Sentry—General Dubbelt—Count Benckendorf—Olga Alexandrovna Zherebtsov—My Second Exile

The Comte de Ségur (1753-1830) was French ambassador in Petersburg and a favourite of Catherine II. He was a man of action as well as a spirited writer, served in the American War of Independence, welcomed every movement on the side of liberty, and wrote a charming account of his times in his Galerie Morale et Politique, and his Mémoires.—(Translator’s Notes.)