Note 282 — BOOK IV
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Gaston Pierre Marc Duc de Levis (1764-1830) had been wounded at Quiberon in 1795. Between 1808 and 1814 he published his Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets, the Suite des quatre Facardins, imitated from Hamilton's Tales, Voyage de Khani, ou Nouvelles lettres chinoises, Souvenirs et Portraits, and L'Angleterre au commencement du XIXe siècle. He became a peer of France in 1814, a privy councillor in 1815 and a member of the French Academy in 1816.—B.