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RUMIGNY, Comte Marie Théodore de (1789-1860). He took part in the
wars of the First Empire and was aide-de-camp to General Gérard
in 1812. In 1830 Louis-Philippe appointed him Field Marshal;
after 1848 he accompanied the King to England and then lived in
retirement.

RUSSELL, Lord William* (1799-1846). English diplomatist and
Ambassador at Berlin.

RUSSELL, Lord John.* English statesman, member of several
Ministries and twice Prime Minister.

RUSSIA, Empress Marie of (1759-1828). Marie Feodorovna, formerly
Sophie, daughter of Duke Frederick of Würtemberg, second wife of
the Emperor Paul, mother of Alexander I. and of Nicholas I. She
was left a widow in 1801.

RUSSIA, the Grand Duchess Constantine of (1781-1831). Julienne,
Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha married in 1796 the Grand Duke
Constantine of Russia and was baptized under the name of Anna
Feodorovna.

RUSSIA, the Emperor of (1796-1855). Nicholas I.*

RUSSIA, the Empress of (1798-1860). Charlotte, daughter of
Frederick William III. of Prussia, married in 1817 the Grand
Duke Nicholas of Russia, who ascended the throne in 1825.

RUSSIA, Grand Duchess Helena of (1807-1873). Daughter of Prince
Paul of Würtemberg and of his first wife, a princess of Saxe
Altenburg. She married in 1824 the Grand Duke Michael of Russia,
youngest son of the Emperor Paul.

RUSSIA, the Grand Hereditary Duke of (1818-1881). Alexander, son
of the Emperor Nicholas, whom he succeeded in 1855 as Alexander
II., married in 1841 the Princess of Hesse Darmstadt.

RUSSIA, the Grand Duchess Olga of (1822-1892). Daughter of the
Emperor Nicholas I. of Russia. She married in 1846 the
Hereditary Prince of Würtemberg, who succeeded his father in the
same year.

S

SAGAN, the Duchess of (1781-1839). Wilhelmina, eldest daughter of
Peter, Duke of Courlande. She was married three times: (1) In
1800 to Prince Henri de Rohan; (2) to Prince Troubetskoi, and
(3) to Count Charles of Schulenburg who survived her. She died
suddenly at Vienna and left no children.

SAINT AUGUSTINE (354-430). Bishop of Hippo, son of Saint Monica
and one of the fathers of the church.

SAINT BLANCARD, the Marquis de (1814-1897). At one time page to
King Charles X. He married Mlle. de Bauffremont.

SAINT CYRAN, the Abbé de (1581-1643). Jean Duvergier de Hauranne
studied in the University of Louvain and became connected with
the Jansenists, whose doctrines he ardently embraced, and
obtained the Abbey of Saint Cyran in 1620. Among his numerous
disciples and friends were Arnauld, Lemaistre de Sacy, Bignon,
etc. He attacked the Jesuits in several works and Richelieu kept
him in prison for four years.

SAINTE ALDEGONDE, the Comtesse Camille de* (1793-1869). Widow of
an aide-de-camp of King Louis-Philippe.

SAINTE AULAIRE, the Comte de* (1778-1854). Peer of France,
diplomatist, and Ambassador at Rome, Vienna and London.

SAINTE AULAIRE, the Comtesse de. _Née_ Louise Charlotte Victoire
de Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure-Brison. She married in 1809 M.
de Sainte Aulaire, who was already a widower.

SAINT LEU, the Duchesse de* (1783-1837). _Née_ Hortense de
Beauharnais, she was the widow of Louis Bonaparte, King of
Holland and mother of Napoleon III.

SAINT PRIEST, the Comte Alexis de,* diplomatist and French writer
and member of the French Academy.

SAINT SIMON, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de (1675-1755). A lord at the
Court of Louis XIV. He wrote famous memoirs, important to the
history of his time.

SALERNO, the Prince of (1790-1851). Leopold de Bourbon, brother of
Francis I., King of Naples, was Inspector-General of the Royal
Guard and leader of the 22nd Regiment of Austrian Infantry. In
1816 he married the Archduchess Maria of Austria, and had a
daughter who became the Duchesse d'Aumale.

SALERNO, the Princess of (1798-1880). Maria, daughter of the
Emperor Francis I. of Austria.

SALVANDY, the Comte de* (1795-1856). French man of letters and
politician; Ambassador and several times Minister.

SALVANDY, the Comtesse de. Julie Ferey, daughter of a manufacturer
and politician, married the Comte de Salvandy in 1823.

SANDWICH, Lady, died in 1853. Louisa, daughter of Lord Belmore,
married, in 1804, George John Montagu, Lord Sandwich, who died
in 1818. One of his daughters was the first wife of Count
Walewski.

SAULX-TAVANNES, Duc Roger Gaspard de (1806-1845). He became a peer
in 1820 on his father's death, but took no share in the work of
the Chamber, and committed suicide at the age of thirty-nine,
when his old ducal family became extinct.

SAUZET, Paul* (1800-1876). Lawyer, Deputy, and Minister of Justice
in 1836.

SAXE-WEIMAR, Duke Bernard of (1792-1862). Infantry General in the
service of the Low Countries.

SAXONY, Augustus II., the Strong, Elector of (1670-1733).
Afterwards King of Poland, elected after the death of John
Sobieski by intrigue and bribery, and crowned at Warsaw in 1697.

SAXONY, Princess Augusta of, born in 1782.

SAXONY, Princess Amelia of (1794-1870). Sister of King Frederick
Augustus and of Prince John of Saxony.

SAXONY, King Frederick Augustus II. of (1797-1854). Ascended the
throne in 1836, after having been co-regent since 1830, and
promulgating a liberal Constitution for his people. An
enlightened, liberal, and well-educated prince, he died in
consequence of a fall from his horse, leaving no children.

SAXONY, the Queen of (1805-1877). Maria, daughter of King
Maximilian of Bavaria and wife of King Frederick Augustus II.

SAXONY, Prince John of (1801-1873). This prince succeeded his
brother, King Frederick Augustus, in 1854. He had married
Princess Amelia of Bavaria, by whom he had several children, and
was distinguished throughout his life for his great virtue and
his learning.

SAXONY, Princess John of (1801-1877). Amelia, daughter of King
Maximilian of Bavaria and wife of Prince John of Saxony.

SCHÖNBURG, Princess (1803-1884). Louise Schwarzenberg, sister of
the Cardinal of that name, married, in 1823, Prince Edward of
Schönburg Waldenburg.

SCHÖNLEIN, Dr. Jean Luc (1793-1864). Doctor of medicine at Zurich.
He was summoned to Berlin, where he obtained a great reputation.

SCHRECKENSTEIN, Baron Maximilian of (1794-1862). For a long time
first Gentleman at the Court of Princess Stephanie of Baden, and
governor of the houses and property of this princess.

SCHULENBURG-KLOSTERRODE, the Count of (1772-1853). He served in
the Austrian diplomatic service and died at Vienna. He had
married his cousin, the Countess Armgard of Schulenburg.

SCHULENBURG, Count Charles Rudolph of (1788-1856). Austrian
lieutenant-colonel; he married the Duchess Wilhelmina of Sagan,
the eldest daughter of the last Duke of Courlande; this marriage
was soon dissolved. In 1846 he undertook to administer the
property of the Duchesse de Talleyrand. He died at Sagan of an
apoplectic stroke and was buried there.

SCHWARZENBERG, Charles Philippe, Prince of (1771-1820). First a
soldier and then Austrian Ambassador at Paris. He negotiated the
marriage of Napoleon with the Archduchess Maria Louisa. On the
occasion of this marriage, in 1810, he gave a large ball, which
had a fatal conclusion owing to a fire at the Embassy, when his
wife perished in the flames.

SCHWEINITZ, Countess of (1799-1854). Fräulein Dullack, married, in
1832, Count Hans Hermann of Schweinitz and became, in 1840,
chief lady at the Court of Princess William of Prussia, by birth
the Princess of Saxe-Weimar.

SÉBASTIANI DE LA PORTA, Marshal* (1775-1851). Ambassador at
Constantinople, Naples, and London.

SÉBASTIANI, wife of the foregoing, died in 1842. A daughter of the
Duc de Gramont. She had become an _émigré_ at the age of sixteen
with the Bourbons. Her first husband had been General Davidow,
whom she married at Milan, and her second husband was General
Sébastiani, whose second wife she was.

SÉGUR, the Comtesse de (1779-1847). Félicité d'Aguesseau, sole
heiress of the last Marquis of this name, she married Count
Octave de Ségur, major on the Staff of the Royal Guard, who died
in 1818.

SÉMONVILLE, the Marquis de* (1754-1839). Chief referendary of the
Court of Peers.

SERCEY, the Marquis de (1753-1856). Pierre César Charles Guillaume
de Sercey was a very distinguished sailor. On the return of the
Bourbons, in 1814, he was commissioned to treat with England for
the exchange of the French prisoners. He was then appointed
Vice-Admiral and entered the Chamber of Peers.

SÉVIGNÉ, the Marquise de* (1626-1696). One of the most
distinguished ladies at the Court of Louis XIV. and author of
remarkable letters.

SFORZA, Ludovico (1451-1508). Known as the Moor, he was the
opponent of the House of Aragon in Italy, and summoned Charles
VIII. there in 1494. After betraying the French he was attacked
by Louis XII., who deprived him of his states and forced him to
flee into Germany. The unpopularity of Trivulzo in the Duchy of
Milan allowed Sforza to reconquer that province, but in 1500 he
was defeated and captured at Novaro by the French. He was
imprisoned at Loches, and died ten years later.

SIDNEY, Lady Sophia,* died in 1837. Countess of Isle and of
Dudley, fifth child of William IV. of England and of Mrs.
Jordan.

SIEYÈS, the Abbé (1748-1836). Vicar-General of Chartres and
politician during the Revolution.

SIGALON, Xavier (1790-1837). Historical painter. He was
commissioned by the Government in 1833 to go to Rome and copy
Michael Angelo's fresco of the Last Judgment. This magnificent
reproduction, a tenth less in size than the original, is at the
School of Fine Arts in Paris.

SIMÉON, the Comte Joseph Balthazar (1781-1846). Master of requests
at the Council of State and Peer of France in 1835; he had
strong artistic tastes.

SOLMS-SONNENWALD, Count William Theodore of (1787-1859). Cavalry
captain and Chamberlain, son of the Countess Ompteda by her
first marriage.

SOLMS-SONNENWALD, the Countess of, born in 1790. By name,
Clementina, daughter of the Count of Bressler.

SOPHIA, the Archduchess (1805-1872). Daughter of King Maximilian
of Bavaria. She married, in 1824, the Archduke Francis, and was
the mother of the Emperor Francis Joseph I.

SOULT, Marshal* (1769-1852). One of the most famous soldiers of
the Empire and a Minister under Louis-Philippe.

STACKELBERG, Count Gustavus of, Privy Councillor and Chamberlain
to the Emperor Alexander I. He became Russian Ambassador and
took part in the Congress of Vienna in 1815. In 1805 he married
Mlle. Caroline de Ludolf, daughter of the Ambassador of Naples
at St. Petersburg.

STACKELBERG, the Countess of (1785-1868). _Née_ Caroline de
Ludolf, she married Count Stackelberg in 1805; when she was left
a widow she settled at Paris.

STANLEY, Lady. Henrietta Maria, daughter of Viscount Dillon,
married in Italy, in 1826, Sir Edward John Stanley, member of
the English Parliament.

STOPFORD, Robert (1768-1847). An English Admiral who became famous
in the chief naval campaigns of the Revolution and the Empire.
In 1840 he bombarded Saint Jean d'Acre.

STROGONOFF, Countess Julia. She had married a Spaniard, the Count
of Ega, with whom she lived at Madrid, when she made the
acquaintance of Count Gregory Strogonoff, who carried her off
and married her. She was well received in St. Petersburg
society, but owing to her false position, she could not obtain
for a long time the Order of St. Catherine, which was her great
ambition. She died at an advanced age between 1860 and 1870,
after carefully tending her husband, who had become blind.

STURMFEDER, Frau von (1819-1891). Camilla Wilhelmena of Münchingen
had married the Baron of Sturmfeder and of Oppenweiller, and was
Chief Lady at the Court of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden.

SUTHERLAND, the Duchess of,* died in 1868. _Née_ Lady Carlisle.
She was mistress of the robes to Queen Victoria.

SYRACUSE, the Comte de (1813-1860). Léopold de Bourbon, son of
Francis I., King of Naples and of Maria Isabella of Spain. He
was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, though he never
received any command.

SYRACUSE, the Countess of (1814-1874). _See_ Carignan, Philiberte
de.

T

TALARU, the Marquis de (1769-1850). M. de Talaru, on the return
from exile in 1815, was called to the Peerage and became French
Ambassador at Madrid in 1823. In 1825 he was Minister of State
and a member of the Privy Council of Charles X., but went into
retirement upon the Revolution of 1830. He had married Mlle. de
Rosière-Saraus, widow of the Count of Clermont-Tonnerre, by
whom he had no children, so that the house of Tonnerre became
extinct with him.

TALLEYRAND-PÉRIGORD, Cardinal of* (1736-1821). Alexandre
Angélique, second son of Daniel de Talleyrand-Périgord, was
Archbishop of Reims in 1777 and of Paris in 1817.

TALLEYRAND, Charles Maurice, Prince de* (1754-1838). Prince of
Benevento. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs, High Chamberlain
of France, member of the Institute and Ambassador. He had
abandoned the church into which he had been forced to enter, and
was one of the best politicians of his time.

TALLEYRAND, the Princesse de* (1762-1835). _Née_ Catharine Werlée,
of English origin, she went through a civil marriage in 1802
with the Prince de Talleyrand, by the order of the Emperor
Napoleon, a marriage which was immediately dissolved.

TALLEYRAND, the Duc de (1762-1838). Known as _le bel Archambaud_.
He married in 1779 Mlle. Sabine de Senozan de Viriville, who was
executed in 1793 during the Revolution.

TALLEYRAND, the Comte Anatole de, died in 1838. Son of Baron
Augustin de Talleyrand and of Adélaide de Montigny.

TASCHERAU, M. (1801-1874). A French deputy. He first studied law;
some interesting publications gained him a great reputation
among scholars; he became chief administrator of the Imperial
Library upon its reorganisation.

TATITCHEFF, Demetrius Paulowitch de (1769-1845). A Russian
diplomatist. Minister at Madrid in 1815, then at Vienna where he
remained until 1845. He then became Councillor of State and Lord
Chamberlain to the Emperor Nicholas.

TAURY, the Abbé Francois Louis (1791-1859). Priest of Chauvigny;
he was selected in 1832 by the Abbé Tournet, founder of the
community of the Sisters of Saint Andrew, to succeed him as
Superior General of that community. In 1845 he was appointed
Vicar-General at Niort. He died of an apoplectic stroke when he
was descending from the pulpit and about to celebrate Mass.

TAYLOR, Sir Herbert* (1775-1839). Private Secretary to King George
III., George IV., and William IV. of England.

THERESA, the Archduchess (1816-1867). Daughter of the Archduke
Charles and of the Princess of Nassau Weilburg. The Archduchess
Theresa became the second wife of Frederick II., King of Naples,
who married her in 1837.

THIARD DE BUSSY, the Comte de* (1772-1852). French Marshal,
liberal deputy, appointed French Minister of Switzerland in
1848.

THIERRY, Augustin (1795-1856). Famous French historian; author of
"Letters on the History of France," and "Narratives of
Merovingian Times."

THIERS, Adolphe* (1797-1877). French statesman and historian.

THIERS, Mme.* (1815-1880). Elise Dosne, daughter of the
stockbroker.

THORWALDSEN, Barthélemy* (1769-1844). Famous Danish sculptor.

TOCQUEVILLE, Comte Alexis de (1805-1859). Member of the Chamber of
Deputies under Louis-Philippe where he supported the Opposition.
On the _coup d'état_ of December 2, he joined the
representatives who signed the act of accusation against Louis
Bonaparte and was imprisoned at Vincennes. He was released a
short time afterwards and returned to private life. He was the
author of "Democracy in America," and of the _Ancien Régime_.

TORENO, the Count of* (1786-1843). Spanish statesman, deputy in
the Cortes and several times Minister.

TOUR ET TAXIS, the Princesse de la. Born in 1773. Theresa,
daughter of the Grand Duke Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,
sister of Queen Louisa of Prussia, married in 1789 Prince
Charles de la Tour et Taxis, Privy Councillor to the Emperor of
Austria and Postmaster-General, an office which had been in his
family since 1695.

TROGOFF, Madame de. A Russian lady, a great friend of the Duchess
Wilhelmina of Sagan, whose companion she had been. She lived at
Versailles.

TUSCANY, the Grand Duke of (1797-1870). Leopold II., Archduke of
Austria, succeeded his father the Grand Duke Ferdinand III., in
1824. His first wife was a Princess of Saxony, and in 1833 he
married the Princess Antoinette of the Two Sicilies.

V

VALÉE, Marshal Sylvain Charles (1773-1846). Fought in the
campaigns of the Revolution and the Empire with distinction,
and received the title of Comte from Napoleon. He supported the
Second Restoration, and Charles X. made him a peer of France.
In 1837 he gained his Marshal's baton at the capture of
Constantine and then became Governor-General of Algeria. In
1840 he resigned this command in favour of General Bugeaud.

VALENÇAY, Madame de. Wife of Jacques d'Etampes, Marquis de la
Ferté-Imbault, Marshal of France, who lived from 1590 to 1668.

VALENÇAY, the Duc de* (1811-1898). Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord,
Duc de Talleyrand and de Valençay, Duc de Sagan after the death
of his mother, eldest son of Edmond, Duc de Talleyrand and of
Princess Dorothea of Courlande.

VALENÇAY, the Duchesse de* (1810-1858). _Née_ de Montmorency.

VALENÇAY, Yolande de (1833-1835). Daughter of the Duc and Duchesse
de Valençay; she died of scarlatina when young.

VANDOEUVRE, Baron William de (1779-1870). Auditor to the Council
of State in 1806 and then deputy for the Aube; he became Peer of
France in 1837. He married Mlle. Dassy.

VATRY, the Baron de (1793-1871). Alphée Bourdon Vapereau de Vatry,
aide-de-camp to Prince Jérôme Bonaparte. He left the army under
the Restoration, became a stockbroker and made a large fortune.
He was a deputy from 1835 to 1848.

VATRY, the Baronne de. Died in 1881. She was the daughter of M.
Hainguerlot, and married Baron Alphée de Vatry who died in 1871.

VAUGUYON, Mlle. Pauline de la (1783-1829). Daughter of the Duc de
la Vauguyon; she married in 1810 the Baron of Villefranche of
the house of Carignan. She died of burns received in an accident
at her villa at Auteuil and left three children: (1) a daughter
who married Prince Massimo of Arsoli; (2) another daughter who
married the Count of Syracuse of the house of Naples; (3) a son
by name Eugène, who was recognised by the King of Sardinia as a
prince of the blood.

VÉRAC, the Marquis de (1768-1858). Armand de Vérac served for some
time in the army of the Princes and then returned to France; he
was exiled by Napoleon to Belgium eight years later. Under the
Restoration he became a Peer of France and Governor of the
Château of Versailles.

VERNET, Horace (1789-1863). A famous French painter who followed
the Algerian campaign and painted several battle scenes
illustrating it.

VERQUIGNIEULLE, the Marquise de. Flore Marie de Proudhomme et
d'Harlay de Verquignieulle, married in 1836 M. Ancillon whose
third wife she was. On his death in 1837, she returned to live
in Belgium, her native country.

VERTOT, the Abbé de (1655-1735). Réne Aubert de Vertot first
entered a religious vocation and became in succession a Capuchin
monk under the name of Father Zacharie, a Premonstratensian and
a member of the Order of Cluny. Then, being tired of the
cloister life, he joined the secular clergy and became priest of
Croissy-la-Garenne and of other places. He published a "History
of the Revolutions in Portugal," but his favourite work was a
"History of the Roman Republic."

VESTIER, Phidias (1796-1874). Architect and Inspector of the
historical monuments in the department of Indre-et-Loire. He was
made a Knight of the Legion of Honour after building the railway
station at Tours in 1849. He was the grandson of a painter,
several of whose works are in the Louvre. Largely supported by
the Duchesse de Talleyrand, he built numerous residences at
Paris and several country houses in the valley of the Loire.

VICENCE, the Duc de (1815-1896). Armand Alexandre Joseph Adrien de
Caulaincourt first entered upon a diplomatic career, which he
abandoned in 1837. Under the July monarchy he was a deputy,
under the Second Empire a Senator, and was made Commander of the
Legion of Honour in 1868.

VILLEFRANCHE, Comte Eugène de (1753-1785). This prince of the
house of Carignan served in the French Army and was given by
Louis XVI. the command of an Infantry Regiment which took the
name of _Savoie Carignan_. He incurred the royal disfavour on
account of his marriage with Mlle. Magon Laballue, left the army
and died at an early age, and in obscurity at Domart in
Picardie.

VILLEFRANCHE, Baron Joseph Marie de (1783-1825). Son of the
foregoing. He had a brilliant career in a cavalry regiment under
the Empire, which was continued under the Restoration, and in
1823 he followed the Duc d'Angoulême into Spain. He died
suddenly in a carriage of an apoplectic stroke. He had married
the daughter of the Duc de la Vauguyon.

VILLEGONTIER, Comte Louis de la (1776-1849). Prefect of the Allier
in 1816, then Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine and Peer of France in
1819; he took the oath to the Government of Louis-Philippe and
supported his policy until 1848, when he retired into private
life.

VILLÈLE, Comte Guillaume Aubin de (1770-1840). Brought up in the
Seminary of Saint Sulpice, he became an _émigré_ during the
Revolution and was ordained priest at Düsseldorf; when he
returned to France in 1802 he devoted himself to preaching.
Louis XVIII. appointed him Bishop of Soissons; in 1824 he became
Archbishop of Bourges and entered the Chamber of Peers at the
same time. After 1830 he remained adverse to the new Government,
and refused the Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1839. When Don
Carlos was driven from Spain and interned at Bourges, the
Archbishop offered him his palace for his residence, and
received from this Prince the grand cordon of Charles III.

VILLEMAIN, Abel François* (1790-1870). French professor, writer,
and politician.

VINCKE, Frau von (1766-1845). Fräulein von Vincke married her
relative, Herr von Vincke, and became lady-of-honour to Queen
Louise of Prussia, who was very fond of her. After the death of
this Princess she held a high position at court and in Berlin
society.

VIVIEN, Alexandre François Auguste (1799-1854). In 1840 he was
Minister of Justice in the Thiers Ministry, and lent his name to
the decree suppressing the deputy judges for the Court of the
Seine.

VOLTAIRE, Arouet de* (1694-1778). A French philosopher who exerted
a vast influence upon the history and literature of the
eighteenth century.

W

WAGRAM, Prince Napoleon Louis de (1810-1888). Son of the famous
Marshal Berthier. He was a Peer of France in 1836 and Senator
in 1848.

WALEWSKI, Comte Alexandre (1810-1868). French politician and
Minister under Napoleon III. He was the natural son of the
Emperor Napoleon I., and of the Countess Marie Walewska, whom
the Emperor had known at Warsaw in 1807.

WALLENSTEIN (1583-1634). A famous soldier, born in Bohemia, and
one of the greatest generals during the Thirty Years War.

WALSH, Countess Agatha. Left a widow as early as 1806, she became
first lady at the court of the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden
and did not retire until 1839. Her son, Theophilus, was a
constant visitor at the Baden court.

WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832). A Scotch novelist.

WASA, Princess (1811-1854). Louise Stephanie, daughter of the
Grand Duke Charles of Baden and of the Grand Duchess, _née_
Stephanie of Beauharnais.

WEIZEL, Mlle. de. A very intimate friend of the family of
Entraigues and of the Baron and Baronne Finot, who lived near
Valençay.

WELLINGTON, the Duke of* (1769-1852). A famous English General,
the opponent of Napoleon and several times a member of the
Cabinet.

WERTHER, Baron* (1772-1859). Prussian diplomatist, Ambassador at
Paris, and afterwards Minister of Foreign Affairs at Berlin.

WERTHER, Baroness* (1778-1853). By birth the Countess Sophia
Sandizell.

WERTHER, Baron Charles (1809-1894). Son of the foregoing. In 1869
he took the place of the Count of Golz as Ambassador at Paris,
and through his instrumentality a breach in relations took
place, which led to the outbreak of the 1870 war. In 1874 he was
appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, and retired to Munich in
1877.

WEYER, Sylvan van de* (1803-1874). Belgian statesman and man of
letters.

WITTGENSTEIN, Prince William of Sayn- (1770-1851). Household
Minister to King Frederick William III. of Prussia, and one of
the most important personages at the Berlin court.

WOLFF, Herr von. Councillor to the Prussian Ministry of the
Interior for many years.

WOLFF, Frau von. Daughter of the Councillor of Justice. Herr
Hennenberg.

WOLOWSKI, Louis (1810-1876). Born at Warsaw, he was naturalised in
France after the Polish revolution of 1830, and devoted himself
to the study of law and economic problems, in which he became a
master.

WORONZOFF-DASCHKOFF, Count Ivan (1791-1854). Russian Minister at
Munich from 1824 to 1828, and at Turin till 1832. He then became
Councillor of the Empire at St. Petersburg and Chief Master of
Ceremonies at the Court. He was an enlightened patron of the
arts.

WURMB, Herr Friedrich Karl von (1766-1843). Staff Officer at
Berlin. He resigned to marry Fräulein von Göcking, and became
land agent to the Duchesse de Dino at Deutsch-Wartenberg.

WURMB, Frau von (1783-1862). Wilhelmina of Göcking, daughter of
the Councillor of State to the Finance Ministry.

WÜRTEMBERG, Duke Alexander of (1804-1855). He entered the Austrian
Military Service, but after contracting a morganatic marriage in
1835 with a Countess Rheday he settled at Paris.

WÜRTEMBERG, the King of* (1781-1862). William I.

WÜRTEMBERG, Princess Maria of* (1816-1863). Daughter of King
William I. and wife of General Neipperg.

WÜRTEMBERG, Princess Sophia of* (1818-1877). Sister of the
foregoing. She married William III., King of the Low Countries.
She was a very distinguished Princess, and an intimate friend of
the Emperor Napoleon III.

WÜRTEMBERG, Prince Paul of (1785-1852). Brother of King William I.
He married, in 1825, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg, by
whom he had several children. He afterwards contracted a
morganatic marriage with an English woman and settled at Paris.

WÜRTEMBERG, Prince Frederick of. Born in 1808, and son of the
foregoing. He remained in the service of Würtemberg.

WÜRTEMBERG, Prince Augustus of. Born in 1813, and brother of the
foregoing. He entered the Prussian service.

X

XIMENES DE CISNEROS, the Cardinal of (1436-1517). A famous
Spanish statesman and Archbishop of Toledo. He performed the
greatest services to Charles V., who showed himself most
ungrateful, and dismissed him after using his influence to
procure his nomination as King of Castile and of Aragon.

Z

ZEA-BERMEDEZ, Don Francisco* (1772-1850). Spanish diplomatist. He
belonged to one of the most ancient families of the reconquest.

ZEA-BERMEDEZ, Doña de.* Died in 1848. By birth she was Doña Maria
Antonia de Anduaga, of a family living in Guipuscoa, which
included several diplomatists among its members. She was Lady
Noble of the Order of Maria Louisa.

ZOÉ. A negress in the service of the Vicomtesse de Laval and then
in the service of the Duchesse Mathieu de Montmorency, with whom
she ended her life.

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