note 12133: "Correspondance de Napoleon I." (Letter to the King of
Wurtemberg, April 2, 1811.)]

[Footnote 12134: Testament of April 25, 1821 "It is my desire that my
remains rest on the banks of the Seine, amidst that French people I have
so dearly loved."]

[Footnote 12135: "Correspondance de Napoleon I.", XXII., 119. (Note by
Napoleon, April, 1811.) "There will always be at Hamburg, Bremen,
and Lubeck from 8000 to 10,000 Frenchmen, either as employees or as
gendarmes, in the custom-houses and warehouses."]

[Footnote 12136: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc),
Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.-, II., 88, and following pages: "During the
year 1813, from Jan. 1 to Oct. 7, 840,000 men had already been drafted
from imperial France and they had to be furnished."--Other decrees
in December, placing at the disposition of the government 300,000
conscripts for the years 1806 to 1814 inclusive.--Another decree in
November organizing 140,000 men of the national guard in cohorts,
intended for the defense of strongholds.--In all, 1,300,000 men summoned
in one year. "Never has any nation been thus asked to let itself be
voluntarily led in a mass to the slaughterhouse.--Ibid., II., 59.
Senatus-consulte, and order of council for raising 10,000 young men,
exempt or redeemed from conscription, as the prefects might choose,
arbitrarily, from amongst the highest classes in society. The purpose
was plainly "to secure hostages in every family of doubtful loyalty.
No measure created for Napoleon more irreconcilable enemies."--Cf.
De Segur, II., 34. (He was charged with organizing and commanding
a division of young men.) Many were sons of Vendeans or of
Conventionalists, some torn from their wives the day after their
marriage, or from the bedside of a wife in her confinement, of a dying
father, or of a sick son; "some looked so feeble that they seemed
dying." One half perished in the campaign of 1814.--"Correspondance,"
letter to Clarke, Minister of War, Oct.23, 1813 (in relation to the new
levies): "I rely on 100,000 refractory conscripts."]

[Footnote 12137: "Archives nationales," A F.,VI., 1297. (Documents 206
to 210.) (Report to the Emperor by Count Dumas, April 10, 1810.) Besides
the 170 millions of penalties 1,675,457 francs of penalty were inflicted
on 2335 individuals, "abettors or accomplices."--Ibid., A F.,VI., 1051.
(Report of Gen. Lacoste on the department of Haute-Loire, Oct. 13,
1808.) "He always calculated in this dep