Note 266 — BOOK VIII[239]

Marie Joseph Marquis de Foresta (d. 1858) was prefect of different departments, under the Restoration, and an honorary lord of the Bed-chamber to the King. He had a cultured, nice and penetrating mind and had given proof of his literary talents at an early age, having dedicated to the Duchesse de Berry two charming and ingenious volumes entitled, Lettres sur la Sicile and published when he was only twenty-two. He remained attached to the person of the Comte de Chambord until his death (11 February 1858). The Marquise de Foresta was the finished type of a Christian gentleman.—B.