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Title: Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II

Author: Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon

Release Date: February 29, 2008 [EBook #24718]

Language: English

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MEMOIRS

OF THE

PRIVATE LIFE,

RETURN, AND REIGN

OF

NAPOLEON

IN 1815.

_Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habes._ SCIPIO.

BY M. FLEURY DE CHABOULON,

Ex-Secretary of the Emperor Napoleon and of his Cabinets,
Master of Requests to the Council of State, Baron, Officer
of the Legion of Honour, and Knight of the Order of Reunion.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.
1820.

MEMOIRS,

&c. &c.

At the same period (May the 1st) the Emperor received a fresh proof of
the little confidence, that men deserve, and of the horrible facility,
with which they sacrifice their duties and their sentiments, to the
suggestions of their covetousness or their ambition.

Of all the ministers of Napoleon there was not one, who, at the time
of his return, lavished on him so many protestations of fidelity and
devotion to his service, as the Duke of Otranto. "And this fidelity,
if he could have doubted it, would have been guarantied by the
mandate, under which he (M. Fouche) groaned, at the moment when the
return of Napoleon restored him to li