Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis de Rivière
Vigée-Lebrun
Charles François de Riffardeau, marquis, then duc de Rivière (Ferté-sur-Cher,Musée du Louvre.
Rivière joined the Guards at the age of seventeen. He fled at the opening of the
duc de Bordeaux
in March 1826.
The series of
lithographed
Vues de Londres (Paris, 1862) were executed by his son, also Charles François de Riffardeau, duc de Rivière.
The Mémoires posthumes, lettres et pièces authentiques touchant la vie et la moirt de Charles François, duc de Rivière, edited by Joseph Jacques, vicomte de Naylies, was published in Paris, 1829.
Notes
- ^ Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythography, s.v. "Rivière
- ^ Giles Stephen Holland Fox-Strangways, ed. The Journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) vol. II (1908) p. 53 note 2.
- ^ Here Toussaint Louverture had been imprisoned in 1803.
- ^ Louis XVIII to Talleyrand, 15 January 1815: Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand (New York: Putnam's) 1891 vol. III, p. 10.
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