ir up a pile of manure."]

[Footnote 12123: "Correspondance," letter to King Joseph, Feb. 18, 1814.
"If I had signed the treaty reducing France to its ancient limits,
I should have gone to war two years after"--Marmont, V., 133 (1813):
"Napoleon, in the last years of his reign, always preferred to lose all
rather than to yield anything."]

[Footnote 12124: M. de Metternich, II., 205.]

[Footnote 12125: Words of Richelieu on his death-bed: "Behold my judge,"
said he, pointing to the Host, "the judge who will soon pronounce his
verdict. I pray that he will condemn me, if, during my ministry, I
have proposed to myself aught else than the good of religion and of the
State."]

[Footnote 12126: Miot de Melito, "Memoires,"II., 48, 152.]

[Footnote 12127: "Souvenirs," by Gaudin, duc de Gaete (3rd vol. of the
"Memoires," p.67).]

[Footnote 12128: M. de Metternich, II., 120. (Letter to Stadion, July
26, 1807.)]

[Footnote 12129: Ibid., II., 291. (Letter of April 11, 1809.)]

[Footnote 12130: Ibid., II., 400. (Letter of Jan.17, 1811.) In lucid
moments, Napoleon takes the same view. Cf. Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions
de Napoleon au conseil d'etat," p. 15: "That will last as long as I do.
After me, however, my son will deem himself fortunate if he has 40,000
francs a year."--(De Segur, "Histoire et Memoires," III., 155.): "How
often at this time (1811) was he heard to foretell that the weight of
his empire would crush his heir!" "Poor child," said he, regarding the
King of Rome, "what an entanglement I shall leave to you!" From the
beginning he frequently passed judgment on himself and foresaw the
effect of his action in history." On reaching the isle of Poplars, the
First Consul stopped at Rousseau's grave, and said: 'It would have, been
better for the repose of France, if that man had never existed.' 'And
why, citizen Consul?' 'He is the man who made the French revolution.'
'It seems to me that you need not complain of the French revolution!'
'well, the future must decide whether it would not have been better for
the repose of the whole world if neither myself nor Rousseau had ever
lived.' He then resumed his promenade in a revery."--Stanislas
Girardin; "Journal et Memoires," III., Visit of the French Consul to
Ermenonville.]

[Footnote 12131: Marmont, "Memoires," III., 337. (On returning from
Wagram.)]

[Footnote 12132: On this initial discord, cf. Armand Lefevre, "Histoire
des Cabinets de l'Europe," vol.VI.]

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