03)]

[Footnote 1242: Cf. "The Revolution," Vol. p. 773. (Note I., on the
situation, in 1806, of the Conventionalists who had survived the
revolution.) For instance, Fouche is minister; Jeanbon-Saint-Andre,
prefect; Drouet (de Varennes), sub-prefect; Chepy (of Grenoble),
commissary-general of the police at Brest; 131 regicides are
functionaries, among whom we find twenty one prefects and forty-two
magistrates.--Occasionally, a chance document that has been preserved
allows one to catch "the man in the act." ("Bulletins hebdomadaires
de la censure, 1810 and 1814," published by M. Thurot, in the Revue
Critique, 1871): "Seizure of 240 copies of an indecent work printed for
account of M. Palloy, the author. This Palloy enjoyed some celebrity
during the Revolution, being one of the famous patriots of the Faubourg
Saint-Antoine. The constituent Assembly had conceded to him the
ownership of the site of the Bastille, of which he distributed its
stones among all the communes. He is a bon vivant, who took it into his
head to write out in a very bad style the filthy story of his amours
with a prostitute of the Palais-Royal. He was quite willing that the
book should be seized on condition that he might retain a few copies
of his jovial production. He professes high admiration for, and strong
attachment to His Majesty's person, and expresses his sentiments
piquantly, in the style of 1789."]

[Footnote 1243: "Memorial," June 12, 1816.]

[Footnote 1244: Mathieu Dumas, III., 363 (July 4, 1809, a few days
before Wagram).--Madame de Remusat," I., 105: "I have never heard him
express any admiration or comprehension of a noble action."--I., 179:
On Augustus's clemency and his saying, "Let us be friends, Cinna," the
following is his interpretation of it: "I understand this action simply
as the feint of a tyrant, and approve as calculation what I find puerile
as sentiment."--"Notes par le Comte Chaptal": "He believed neither
in virtue nor in probity, often calling these two words nothing
but abstractions; this is what rendered him so distrustful and so
immoral.... He never experienced a generous sentiment; this is why he
was so cold in company, and why he never had a friend. He regarded men
as so much counterfeit coin or as mere instruments."]

[Footnote 1245: M. de Metternich, "Memoires," I., 241.--"Madame de
Remusat," I., 93: "That man has been so harmful (si assommateur de
toute vertu...) to all virtue."--Madame de Stael, "Considerati