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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4

Note 506 — BOOK XII[500]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

All the foregoing, from the words "which overtook her at Nice," was added afterwards to Chateaubriand's diary of the road. Manifestly he could not insert in his journal, on the 25th of September 1828, a note from the Duchesse de Duras written on the 14th of November 1828; nor could he speak of the death of Madame de Duras and of her tomb, seeing that she died only in 1829.—B.

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