m, "What is the Prefect about?"--'He left this at the first
news of the change which had happened at Paris.' "And his wife?" 'She
had left it before.' "She then took the start. Do the people pay the
revenue and the droits reunis?"--'Not a halfpenny.'--"Are there many
English at Marseilles?" Here the Sub-Prefect related all that had lately
passed in that port, and with what transports they had received the
English. Bonaparte, who did not take much pleasure in such a recital,
put an end to it, by saying to the Sub-Prefect, "Tell your Provencals
that the Emperor is very ill pleased with them."

"Arrived at Bouilledon, he shut himself up in an apartment, with his
sister (Pauline Borghese)--Sentinels were placed at the door.
Notwithstanding which, some ladies arriving at the gallery, which
communicated with that room, beheld there an officer in Austrian
uniform, who said to them, "Ladies, what do you wish to see?" 'We wish
to see Napoleon.' "But that's myself." The ladies, looking at him, said,
smiling, 'You are joking, Sir; you are not Napoleon.' "I assure you,
ladies, it is I.--What!--You thought Napoleon must have a more wicked
appearance. Don't they say that I am a wretch, a rascal?"--The ladies
did not care to undeceive him. Bonaparte, not wishing to press them hard
on this subject, turned the conversation.--But always occupied with his
first idea, he returned to it immediately.--"Acknowledge, at least,
ladies, that now, when fortune is against me, they say that I am a
wretch, a miscreant, and a marauder. But do you know the meaning of all
this? I wished to make France superior to England, and I have failed in
this project."

[42] "When we are on the paved streets of Paris, we perceive that the
people do not there make the laws;--no convenience for pedestrians--no
side pavement; the people seem to be a body separated from the other
orders of the state--the rich and the great who possess equipages, have
the right of crushing and mutilating them in the streets--a hundred
victims expire every year under the wheels of the carriages."

[43] "Before the revolution, the village contained four thousand
inhabitants. It furnished, as its share to the general service of the
church, and of the hospitals, as well as for the instruction of youth,
five ecclesiastics, two sisters of charity, and three schoolmasters.
These last are replaced by a riding-master, a drawing-master, and two
music-masters. Out of eight manufactories of wool