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The hill
of Montmartre is reached from the Boulevard by way of the
Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin, and thence by the Rue Blanche
or the Rue Pigalle, or by way of the Rue Laffitte and the
Rue des Martyrs. Mme. Recamier, whom Napoleon hated and who
nursed Chateaubriand in his old age, lived in the Rue de
la Chaussee d'Antin ; so did Mme. Roland, the beautiful Girondist, " serene
and queenly," and Mme. Necker, the mother of Mme. de
Stael, and Gibbon of The Decline and Fall, who nearly married
Mme. Necker. The world may rejoice that the plan was frustrated,
for had it matured, there would certainly have been no Mme.
de Stael. It is impossible to conceive such a woman with
Gibbon as father. In the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin there
lived an even more famous person, Baron Danglars, one of
the villains of Monte Cristo, the banker whom Monte Cristo
contrived to ruin, and near by in a parallel street, the
Rue du Helder, was " the large and fashionable dwelling " of
Fernand Mondego and his wife, the beautiful Mercedes, to
whom Monte Cristo, then Edmond Dantes, was affianced when
he was arrested and taken to the Chateau d'If. Mirabeau died
in the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin in 1791, already grown
fearful of the Revolution which he had done so much to bring
about. The spring sun shone into his room on the day of his
death, and almost his last words were, " Si ce n'est
pas la Dieu c'est du moins son cousin germain." At a
house in this street Napoleon met Josephine de Beauharnais
for the first time. 
