born out of the nature of things."]

[Footnote 6251: Villemain, Ibid., I., 145. (Words of M. de Narbonne
on leaving Napoleon after several interviews with him in 1812.) "The
Emperor, so powerful, 50 victorious is disturbed by only one thing in
this world and that is by people who talk, and, in default of these, by
those who think. And yet he seems to like them or, at least, cannot do
without them."]

[Footnote 6252: Welschinger, ibid., p.30. (Session of the Council of
State, Dec.12, 1809)]

[Footnote 6253: Welschinger, ibid., pp.31, 33, 175, 190. (Decree of
Feb.5, 1810.)--"Revue Critique," Sep. 1870. (Weekly bulletin of the
general direction of publicauons for the last three months of 1810 and
the first three months of 1814, published by Charles Thursot.)]

[Footnote 6254: Collection of laws and decrees, vol. XII., p.170. "When
the censors shall have examined a work and allowed the publication
of it, the publishers shall be authorized to have it printed. But
the minister of the police shall still have the right to suppress it
entirely if he thinks proper."--Welschinger, ibid., pp. 346-374.]

[Footnote 6255: Welschinger, ibid., pp. 173, 175.]

[Footnote 6256: Id., ibid., pp. 223, 231, 233. (The copy of "Athalie"
with the erasures of the police still exists in the prompter's library
of the Theatre Francais.)--Id., ibid., p 244. (Letter of the
secretary-general of the police to the weekly managers of the Theatre
Francais, Feb. 1, 1809, In relation to the "Mort d'Hector," by Luce de
Lancival.) "Messieurs, His Excellency, the minister-senator, has
expressly charged me to request the suppression of the following lines
on the stage--'Hector': Deposez un moment ce fer toujours vainqueur,
Cher Hector, et craignez de laisser le bonheur."]

[Footnote 6257: Welschinger, ibid., p. 13. (Act of Jan. 17, 1800.)--117,
118. (Acts of Feb. 18, 1811, and Sep. 17, 1813.)--119, 129. (No
indemnity for legitimate owners. The decree of confiscation states in
principle that the ownership of journals can become property only
by virtue of an express concession made by the sovereign, that this
concession was not made to the actual founders and proprietors and that
their claim is null.)]

[Footnote 6258: Id.. ibid., pp.196, 201.]

[Footnote 6259: "Revue critique," ibid., pp.142, 146, 149.]

[Footnote 6260: Welschinger, ibid., p. 251.]

[Footnote 6261: "Correspondance de Napoleon Iere." (Letter of the
Emperor to Cambaceres, Nov.21, 1806.