ch 3, 1810. (Left out
in the "Correspondance de Napoleon I.," and published by M. Thiers in
"Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire," XII., p. 115.)]

[Footnote 1279: De Segur, III., 459.]

[Footnote 1280: Words of Napoleon to Marmont, who, after three months in
the hospital, returns to him in Spain with a broken arm and his hand in
a black sling: "You hold on to that rag then?" Sainte-Beuve, who loves
the truth as it really is, quotes the words as they came, which Marmont
dared not reproduce. (Causeries du Lundi, VI., 16.)--"Souvenirs",
by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893: "M. de Champagny having been
dismissed and replaced, a courageous friend defended him and insisted on
his merit: "You are right," said the Emperor, "he had some when I took
him; but by cramming him too full, I have made him stupid."]

[Footnote 1281: Beugnot, I., 456, 464]

[Footnote 1282: Mme. de Remusat, II., 272.]

[Footnote 1283: M. de Champagny, "Souvenirs," 117.]

[Footnote 1284: Madame de Remusat, I., 125.]

[Footnote 1285: De Segur, III., 456.]

[Footnote 1286: "The Ancient Regime," p. 125.--"aeuvres de Louis XIV.,"
191: "If there is any peculiar characteristic of this monarchy, it is
the free and easy access of the subjects to the king; it an egalite de
justice between both, and which, so to say, maintains both in a genial
and honest companionship, in spite of the almost infinite distance in
birth, rank, and power. This agreeable society, which enables persons
of the Court to associate familiarly with us, impresses them and charms
them more than one can tell."]

[Footnote 1287: Madame de Remusat, II., 32, 39.]

[Footnote 1288: Madame de Remusat, III., 169.]

[Footnote 1289: Ibid., II., 32, 223, 240, 259; III., 169.]

[Footnote 1290: Ibid., I., 112, II., 77.]

[Footnote 1291: M. de Metternich, I., 286.--"It would be difficult
to imagine any greater awkwardness than that of Napoleon in a
drawing-room.--Varnhagen von Ense, "Ausgewaehlte Schriften," III., 177.
(Audience of July 10, 1810): "I never heard a harsher voice, one so
inflexible. When he smiled, it was only with the mouth and a portion
of the cheeks; the brow and eyes remained immovably sombre,... This
compound of a smile with seriousness had in it something terrible and
frightful."--On one occasion, at St. Cloud, Varnhagen heard him exclaim
over and over again, twenty times, before a group of ladies, "How hot!"]

[Footnote 1292: Mme. de Remusat, II., 77, 169.--Thibaudea