CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René de (1768–1848).

Paris, 31 July 1828, to Augustin VARCOLLIER. The bearer of this note “is poor François, the ward boy. The aim is to show that he is lame and cannot be a soldier. I would very much like […] to have you in Rome with M. de Fresne, but I myself shall go to Rome, and who can say what the future holds? ’… Rome, 18 December 1828, to the Count de CHABROL, Prefect of the Seine. He requests a promotion for the son of Mme STAMATI, the unfortunate widow of a French consul: ‘her son-in-law, Mr Varcollier, is stationed near you, and you are already bound by your own acts of kindness’… He also reiterates his request “for the admission to Bicêtre of a poor old man, my neighbour on Rue d’Enfer, named Avenant”…