Madame Récamier . phrase we might have expected appears : Try to get me recalled. ^ The couriers left Rome threetimes a week,^ and he never missed sending by each one hislamentations and entreaties to the Abbaye-aux-Bois. Mme. Recamier had been entrusted with the Mdise affairfor which Taylor had asked.^ Chateaubriand kept her veryexactly informed about all his diplomatic affairs, as thefollowing letter proves. It belongs to those which havealready been published by Mme. Lenormant. Rome, November UJi, 1828. I have just left St. Louis. For the first time I foundmyself in this church, opposite a
Madame Récamier . phrase we might have expected appears : Try to get me recalled. ^ The couriers left Rome threetimes a week,^ and he never missed sending by each one hislamentations and entreaties to the Abbaye-aux-Bois. Mme. Recamier had been entrusted with the Mdise affairfor which Taylor had asked.^ Chateaubriand kept her veryexactly informed about all his diplomatic affairs, as thefollowing letter proves. It belongs to those which havealready been published by Mme. Lenormant. Rome, November UJi, 1828. I have just left St. Louis. For the first time I foundmyself in this church, opposite a tomb, the Pope on his ^ Unpublished letter, No. 58. 2 Unpublished letter, No. 59. On the 29th September, from Milan,Chateaubriand sends an affectionate little note to the Marquise de V.^ Unpublished letter, No. 62. Souv. et Corr., II, p. 236. ^ Ibid., p. 242. « Ibid., p. 243. Compare the two letters to the Marquise de V., October 11th and Souv. et Corr., II, pp. 236, 240, 242, 248, 250, 258, and ( ///^v/// //u/ // f/ CHATEAUBRIAND 195 knees and me on my knees by the side of the Pope, repre-senting the King of France and praying before a picture ofSt. Louis. What a strange sequel to my Hfe, and what anend to a pubUc career. I have scarcely time to write thesefew^ words, as the courier is leaving. No letters from you is deadly, and I can assure you that I am almost dis-couraged. Send to the Foreign Office, as I am writing youthree times a week through this intermediary. i One wonders what M. de Chateaubriand really wanted,since even at this moment when he was being feted andapplauded he still complained of not being made more useof for his Anyhow, every letter which arrivedfrom Juliette brought him a little respite and replied in detail to all that his correspondent asked him. You must have been, he writes,^ overwhelmed by mythree letters a week and I hope that you are now deeplyrepenting. I feel inclined to let Taylor do as
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