Note 508 — BOOK X[399] (continued 2)

Madame Mohl was the wife of Julius von Mohl (1800-1876), the German-French Orientalist, who had been appointed Professor of Persian to the Collège de France in 1845.—T.

We read in Vol. II., p. 564, of the Souvenirs et correspondance de Madame Récamier:

"An amiable, witty and kind-hearted Englishwoman, Madame Mohl, lived on the floor above, in the same house and on the same stair-case as M. de Chateaubriand."—B.