Note 387 — BOOK I[330] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Chateaubriand has confused the two Cadets de Gassicourt, father and son. Cadet de Gassicourt the Elder (1760-1831) wrote short verses and published two little pamphlets directed against Chateaubriand and Madame de Staël: Saint-Géran, au la Nouvelle langue française (1807) and the Suite de Saint-Géran, ou Itinéraire de Lutèce au Mont-Valérien (1811). His son, F. Cadet de Gassicourt (1789-1861), was Mayor of the 4th Ward and the individual referred to above.—B.