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14 Un millier de baise (sic).

15 So Tennant (t'en offrir un): but Baron Feuillet de Conches, an expert in Napoleonic graphology, renders the expression t'en souffrir un.

16 Bonaparte's courier.

17 The date of this letter is May 29, 1800. See Notes.

18 J'ai couché aujourd'hui—i.e. a few hours' morning sleep.

19 The month Brumaire—i.e. before November 21st.

20 Countess de Serent, the Empress's lady-in-waiting.

21 VI. Nivose, which for the year 1805 was December 27 (see Harris Nicolas' "Chronology of History"). Haydn, Woodward, Bouillet, all have December 26th; Alison and Biographie Universelle have December 27th; but, as usual, the "Correspondence of Napoleon I." is taken here as the final court of appeal.

22 Murat and Borghèse.

23 Eugène's eldest daughter, the Princess Josephine Maximilienne Auguste, born March 14, 1807; married Bernadotte's son, Prince Oscar, June 18, 1827.

24 Toute diablesse.

25 Charles Napoleon, Prince Royal of Holland, died at the Hague, May 5, 1807.

26 Presumed date.

27 His Coronation Day.

28 Charles Louis Napoleon, afterwards Napoleon III.

29 At 17 Rue Lafitte.

30 At Bayonne.

31 General Lefebvre—Desnouettes.

32 Napoleon Louis, Prince Royal of Holland, and Grand Duke of Berg from March 3, 1809.

33 Her two grandsons, who, with Hortense, their mother, were at Baden.

34 Boispréau, belonging to Mademoiselle Julien.

35 Also Meme's Memoirs of Josephine, p. 333.

36 The Empress, with Hortense, had been to dine at Trianon.

37 General Treasurer of the Crown.

38 So Collection Didot, followed by Aubenas. St. Amand has "ton infortunée fille."

39 Josephine's chief maid-of-honour.

40 Averaged from early historians of the campaigns. Marbot gives the numbers 155,400 French and 175,000 Allies. Allowing for the secession of the Austrian and Prussian contingents and for 30,000 prisoners, he gives the actual French death-roll by February 1813 at 65,000. This is a minimum estimate.

41 No. 89 of Napoleon III.'s Correspondence of Napoleon I., vol. i., the last letter signed Buonaparte; after March 24 we only find Bonaparte.

42 Compelled to surrender Genoa, before Marengo takes place, he swears to the Austrian general he will be back there in fourteen days, and keeps his word.

43 Two days later he evidently feels this letter too severe, and writes: "All goes well. Pillage is less pronounced. This first thirst of an army destitute of everything is quenched. The poor fellows are excusable; after having sighed for three years at the top of the Alps, they arrive in the Promised Land, and wish to taste of it."

44 Bingham, with his customary ill-nature, remarks that Bonaparte, "in spite of the orders of the Directory, took upon himself to sign the armistice." These orders, dated March 6th, were intended for a novice, and no longer applicable to the conqueror of two armies, and which a Despatch on the way, dated April 25th, already modified. Jomini admits the wisdom of this advantageous peace, which secured Nice and Savoy to France, and gave her all the chief mountain-passes leading into Italy.

45 Murat, says Marmont, who hated him, was the culprit here.

46 J. H. Rose in Eng. Hist. Review, January 1899.

47 See Essay by J. H. Rose in Eng. Hist. Review, January 1899.

48 With fevers caught in the rice-swamps of Lombardy.

49 With aqua tofana, says Marmont.

50 On reaching London a few months later Mistress Billington was engaged simultaneously by Drury Lane and Covent Garden, and during the following year harvested £10,000 from these two engagements.

51 She was, however, no mere amateur, and knew, says Mlle. d'Avrillon, the names of all her plants, the family to which they belonged, their native soil, and special properties.

52 Rueil, le château de Richelieu et la Malmaison, by Jacquin and Duesberg, p. 130; in Aubenas' Joséphine, vol. i.

53 Lucien declares that Napoleon said to his wife, in his presence and that of Joseph, "Imitate Livia, and you will find me Augustus."—(Jung, vol. ii. 206.) Lucien evidently suspects an occult sinister allusion here, but Napoleon is only alluding to the succession devolving on the first child of their joint families. Lucien refused Hortense, but Louis was more amenable to his brother's wishes. On her triumphal entry into Mühlberg (November 1805), the Empress reads on a column a hundred feet high—"Josephinae, Galliarum Augustae."

54 Made Grand Huntsman in 1804.

55 An anachronism; he was at this time First Consul.

56 An euphuistic way of saying he could not learn longer ones. In war time Napoleon had to insist on Eugène keeping his letters with him and constantly re-reading them.

57 The Emperor had himself planned the Itinerary, and had mistaken a projected road for a completed one, between Rethel and Marche.

58 The first month of the Republican calendar.

59 Memoirs, vol. ii. 165.

60 Bouillet, Dictionnaire Universelle, &c.

61 "The Queen of that Court was the fair Madame Tallien. All that imagination can conceive will scarcely approach the reality; beautiful after the antique fashion, she had at once grace and dignity; without being endowed with a superior wit, she possessed the art of making the best of it, and won people's hearts by her great kindness."—Memoirs of Marmont, vol. i., p. 887.

62 This brave general was mortally wounded in the cavalry charge which saved the battle, and the friends of Bernadotte assert that the message was never given—an assertion more credible if the future king's record had been better on other occasions.

63 Alison says 75,000 allies, 85,000 French, but admits allies had 100 more cannon.

64 Augereau, says Méneval, went out of his mind during this battle, and had to be sent back to France.

65 The Decree itself says "nos enfants et descendants males, legitimes et naturels."

66 On October 11th Prince Ferdinand had written Napoleon for "the honour of allying himself to a Princess of his august family"; and Lucien's eldest daughter was Napoleon's only choice.

67 Napoleon visited Madrid and its Palais Royal incognito, and (like Vienna) by night (Bausset).

68 With Lejeune on one occasion.

69 Biographie Universelle. Michaud says ponies.

70 This Archduke was the "international man" at this juncture. Louis Bonaparte speaks of a society at Saragossa, of which the object was to make the Archduke Charles king of Spain.

71 These Adelphes or Philadelphes were the socialists or educated anarchists of that day. They wished for the statu quo before Napoleon became supreme ruler. They had members in his army, and it seems quite probable that Bernadotte gave them passive support. General Oudet was their recognised head, and he died under suspicious circumstances after Wagram. The society was, unlike the Carbonari, anti-Catholic.

72 Pelet, vol. i. 127.

73 Pelet, vol. i. 282.

74 "Gaily asking his staff to breakfast with him" (Pelet).

75 Lejeune says "some hours afterwards."

76 Eugène's.

77 "What a loss for France and for me," groaned Napoleon, as he left his dead friend.

78 By here subordinating himself to the Senate, the Emperor was preparing a rod for his own back hereafter.

79 This clause gives considerable trouble to Lacépède and Regnauld. They cannot even find a precedent whether, if they met, Josephine or Marie Louise would take precedence of the other.

80 In addition to this, Napoleon gives her £40,000 a year from his privy purse, but keeps most of it back for the first two years to pay her 120 creditors. (For interesting details see Masson, Josephine Répudiée.)

81 Which agrees with Madame d'Avrillon, who says they left the Tuileries at 2.30. Méneval says Napoleon left for Trianon a few hours later. Savary writes erroneously that they left the following morning.

82 M. Masson seems to indicate a visit on December 16th, but does not give his authority (Josephine Repudiée, 114).

83 Correspondence of Napoleon I., No. 15,952.

84 New Letters of Napoleon, 1898.

85 Canon Ainger's comparison.

86 See Baron Lejeune for an interesting account of a chess quadrille at a dance given by the Italian Minister, Marescalchi.

87 On this occasion Baron Lejeune sees the Archduke Charles, and remarks: "There was nothing in his quiet face with its grave and gentle expression, or in his simple, modest, unassuming manner, to denote the mighty man of war; but no one who met his eyes could doubt him to be a genius."

88 "This gloomy and forsaken château," says St. Amand, "whose only attraction was the half-forgotten memory of its vanished splendours, was a fit image of the woman who came to seek sanctuary there."

89 He endows the husband with £4000 a year, and the title of Count Tascher.

90 "Une épouse sans époux, et une reine sans royaume"—St. Amand.

91 Aubenas.

92 Mlle. d'Avrillon says that during the Swiss voyage Josephine found it desirable, for the first time, to "wear whalebone in her corsets."

93 The same question may be asked respecting the death of Montaigne.

94 Memoires et Correspondance de l'Impératrice Joséphine, par J. B. J. Innocert Philadelphe Regnault Varin. Paris, 1820, 8^o. This book is not in the British Museum Catalogue.

95 Josephine Impératrice et Reine, Paris, 1899.