Note 46 — BOOK VII[1]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Alexandre Comte de Girardin (1776-1885) served with distinction under Napoleon and was by Louis XVIII. appointed Master of the Hounds, an office which he retained till 1830. M. Émile de Girardin, the celebrated editor of the Presse, through whom the Mémoires d'Outre-tombe were originally published, was his illegitimate son.—B.