Note 278 — BOOK X[262]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), author of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. At Lausanne, he was for a time engaged to marry Mademoiselle Suzanne Curchod, who subsequently married M. Necker and became the mother of Madame de Staël.—T.