The Modern Regime Volume I Part 9

[Footnote 1263: Mollien, II., 9.]

[Footnote 1264: D'Haussonville, "L'eglise Romaine et le premier Empire,"VI., 190, and pa.s.sim.]

[Footnote 1265: Ibid., III., 460-473.--Cf. on the same scene, "Souvenirs", by Pasquier (Etienne-Dennis, duc), Chancelier de France.

(He was both witness and actor.)]

[Footnote 1266: An expression of Cambaceres. M. de Lavalette, II., 154.]

[Footnote 1267: Madame de Remusat, III. 184]

[Footnote 1268: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.-, I., 521. Details of the manufacture of counterfeit money, by order of Savary, in an isolated building on the plain of Montrouge.--Metternich, II., 358. (Words of Napoleon to M. de Metternich): "I had 300 millions of banknotes of the Bank of Vienna all ready and was going to flood you with them." Ibid., Correspondence of M. de Metternich with M. de Champagny on this subject (June, 1810).]

[Footnote 1269: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.--Vol. II. p. 196.]

[Footnote 1270: Madame de Remusat, II., 335.]

[Footnote 1271: Madame de Remusat, I., 231.]

[Footnote 1272: Ibid., 335.]

[Footnote 1273: M. de Metternich, I., 284. "One of those to whom he seemed the most attached was Duroc. 'He loves me the same as a dog loves his master,' is the phrase he made use of in speaking of him to me. He compared Berthier's sentiment for his person to that of a child's nurse.

Far from being opposed to his theory of the motives influencing men these sentiments were its natural consequence whenever he came across sentiments to which he could not apply the theory of calculation based on cold interest, he sought the cause of it in a kind of instinct."]

[Footnote 1274: Beugnot, "Memoires," II., 59.]

[Footnote 1275: "Memorial." "If I had returned victorious from Moscow, I would have brought the Pope not to regret temporal power: I would have converted him into an idol... I would have directed the religious world as well as the political world... My councils would have represented Christianity, and the Pope would have only been president of them."]

[Footnote 1276: De Segur, III., 312. (In Spain, 1809.)]

[Footnote 1277: "Memoires du Prince Eugene." (Letters of Napoleon, August, 1806.)]

[Footnote 1278: Letter of Napoleon to Fouche, March 3, 1810. (Left out in the "Correspondance de Napoleon I.," and published by M. Thiers in "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire," XII., p. 115.)]

[Footnote 1279: De Segur, III., 459.]

[Footnote 1280: Words of Napoleon to Marmont, who, after three months in the hospital, returns to him in Spain with a broken arm and his hand in a black sling: "You hold on to that rag then?" Sainte-Beuve, who loves the truth as it really is, quotes the words as they came, which Marmont dared not reproduce. (Causeries du Lundi, VI., 16.)--"Souvenirs", by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893: "M. de Champagny having been dismissed and replaced, a courageous friend defended him and insisted on his merit: "You are right," said the Emperor, "he had some when I took him; but by cramming him too full, I have made him stupid."]

[Footnote 1281: Beugnot, I., 456, 464]

[Footnote 1282: Mme. de Remusat, II., 272.]

[Footnote 1283: M. de Champagny, "Souvenirs," 117.]

[Footnote 1284: Madame de Remusat, I., 125.]

[Footnote 1285: De Segur, III., 456.]

[Footnote 1286: "The Ancient Regime," p. 125.--"aeuvres de Louis XIV.,"

191: "If there is any peculiar characteristic of this monarchy, it is the free and easy access of the subjects to the king; it an egalite de justice between both, and which, so to say, maintains both in a genial and honest companions.h.i.+p, in spite of the almost infinite distance in birth, rank, and power. This agreeable society, which enables persons of the Court to a.s.sociate familiarly with us, impresses them and charms them more than one can tell."]

[Footnote 1287: Madame de Remusat, II., 32, 39.]

[Footnote 1288: Madame de Remusat, III., 169.]

[Footnote 1289: Ibid., II., 32, 223, 240, 259; III., 169.]

[Footnote 1290: Ibid., I., 112, II., 77.]

[Footnote 1291: M. de Metternich, I., 286.--"It would be difficult to imagine any greater awkwardness than that of Napoleon in a drawing-room.--Varnhagen von Ense, "Ausgewahlte Schriften," III., 177.

(Audience of July 10, 1810): "I never heard a harsher voice, one so inflexible. When he smiled, it was only with the mouth and a portion of the cheeks; the brow and eyes remained immovably sombre,... This compound of a smile with seriousness had in it something terrible and frightful."--On one occasion, at St. Cloud, Varnhagen heard him exclaim over and over again, twenty times, before a group of ladies, "How hot!"]

[Footnote 1292: Mme. de Remusat, II., 77, 169.--Thibaudeau, "Memoires sur le Consulat," p. 18: "He sometimes pays them left-handed compliments on their toilet or adventures, which was his way of censuring morals."--"Mes souvenirs sur Napoleon," 322 by le Comte Chaptal: "At a fete, in the Hotel de Ville, he exclaimed to Madame----, who had just given her name to him: 'Good G.o.d, they told me you were pretty!' To some old persons: 'You haven't long to live! To another lady: 'It is a fine time for you, now your husband is on his campaigns!' In general, the tone of Bonaparte was that of an ill-bred lieutenant. He often invited a dozen or fifteen persons to dinner and rose from the table before the soup was finished... The court was a regular galley where each rowed according to command."]

[Footnote 1293: Madame de Remusat, I., 114, 122, 206; II., 110, 112.]

[Footnote 1294: Ibid., I., 277.]

[Footnote 1295: "Hansard's Parliamentary History," vol. x.x.xVI.,.310.

Lord Whitworth's dispatch to Lord Hawkesbury, March 14, 1803, and account of the scene with Napoleon. "All this took place loud enough for the two hundred persons present to hear it."--Lord Whitworth (dispatch of March 17) complains of this to Talleyrand and informs him that he shall discontinue his visits to the Tuileries unless he is a.s.sured that similar scenes shall not occur again.--Lord Hawkesbury approves of this (dispatch of March 27), and declares that the proceeding is improper and offensive to the King of England.--Similar scenes, the same conceit and intemperate language, with M. de Metternich, at Paris, in 1809, also at Dresden, in 1813: again with Prince Korsakof, at Paris, in 1812; with M. de Balachof, at Wilna, in 1812, and with Prince Cardito, at Milan, in 1805.]

[Footnote 1296: Before the rupture of the peace of Amiens ("Moniteur,"

Aug. 8, 1802): The French government is now more firmly established than the English government."--("Moniteur" Sept.10, 1802): "What a difference between a people which conquers for love of glory and a people of traders who happen to become conquerors!"--("Moniteur," Feb. 20, 1803): "The government declares with a just pride that England cannot now contend against France."--Campaign of 1805, 9th bulletin, words of Napoleon in the presence of Mack's staff: "I recommend my brother the Emperor of Germany to make peace as quick as he can! Now is the time to remember that all empires come to an end; the idea that an end might come to the house of Lorraine ought to alarm him."--Letter to the Queen of Naples, January 2, 1805: "Let your Majesty listen to what I predict.

On the first war breaking out, of which she might be the cause, she and her children will have ceased to reign; her children would go wandering about among the different countries of Europe begging help from their relations."]

[Footnote 1297: 37th bulletin, announcing the march of an army on Naples "to punish the Queen's treachery and cast from the throne that criminal woman, who, with such shamelessness, has violated all that men hold sacred."--Proclamation of May 13, 1809: "Vienna, which the princes of the house of Lorraine have abandoned, not as honorable soldiers yielding to circ.u.mstances and the chances of war, but as perjurers pursued by remorse.... In flying from Vienna their adieus to its inhabitants consisted of murder and fire. Like Medea, they have sacrificed their children with their own hands."--13th bulletin: "The rage of the house of Lorraine against the city of Vienna,"]

[Footnote 1298: Letter to the King of Spain, Sept. 18, 1803, and a note to the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, on the Prince de la Paix: "This favorite, who has succeeded by the most criminal ways to a degree unheard of in the annals of history.... Let Your Majesty put away a man who, maintaining in his rank the low pa.s.sions of his character, has lived wholly on his vices."--After the battle of Jena, 9th, 17th, 18th, and 19th bulletins, comparison of the Queen of Prussia with Lady Hamilton, open and repeated insinuations, imputing to her an intrigue with the Emperor Alexander. "Everybody admits that the Queen of Prussia is the author of the evils the Prussian nation suffers. This is heard everywhere. How changed she is since that fatal interview with the Emperor Alexander!... The portrait of the Emperor Alexander, presented to her by the Prince, was found in the apartment of the Queen at Potsdam."]

[Footnote 1299: "La Guerre patriotique" (1812-1815), according to the letters of contemporaries, by Doubravine (in Russian). The Report of the Russian envoy, M. de Balachof, is in French,]

[Footnote 12100: An allusion to the murder of Paul I.]

[Footnote 12101: Stanislas de Girardin, "Memoires," III., 249.

(Reception of Nivose 12, year X.) The First consul addresses the Senate: "Citizens, I warn you that I regard the nomination of Daunou to the senate as a personal insult, and you know that I have never put up with one."--"Correspondance de Napoleon I." (Letter of Sept.23, 1809, to M.

de Champagny): "The Emperor Francis insulted me in writing to me that I cede nothing to him, when, out of consideration for him, I have reduced my demands nearly one-half." (Instead of 2,750,000 Austrian subjects he demanded only 1,600,000.)--Roederer, III., 377 (Jan.24, 1801): "The French people must put up with my defects if they find I am of service to them; it is my fault that I cannot endure insults."]

[Footnote 12102: M. de Metternich, II., 378. (Letter to the Emperor of Austria, July 28, 1810.)]

[Footnote 12103: Note presented by the French amba.s.sador, Otto, Aug. 17, 1802.]

[Footnote 12104: Stanislas Girardin, III., 296. (Words of the First consul, Floreal 24, year XI.): "I had proposed to the British minister, for several months, to make an arrangement by which a law should be pa.s.sed in France and in England prohibiting newspapers and the members of the government from expressing either good or ill of foreign governments. He never would consent to it."--St. Girardin: "He could not."--Bonaparte: "Why?"--St. Girardin: "Because an agreement of that sort would have been opposed to the fundamental law of the country."

Bonaparte: "I have a poor opinion," etc.]

[Footnote 12105: Hansard, vol. x.x.xVI., p.1298. (Dispatch of Lord Whitworth, Feb.21, 1803, conversation with the First consul at the Tuileries.)--Seeley, 'A Short History of Napoleon the First." "Trifles is a softened expression, Lord Whitworth adds in a parenthesis which has never been printed; "the expression he made use of is too insignificant and too low to have a place in a dispatch or anywhere else, save in the mouth of a hack-driver."]

[Footnote 12106: Lanfrey, "Histoire de Napoleon," II., 482. (Words of the First consul to the Swiss delegates, conference of January 29, 1803.)]

[Footnote 12107: Sir Neil Campbell, "Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Elba," p.201. (The words of Napoleon to Sir Neil Campbell and to the other commissioners.)--The Memorial de Sainte Helene mentions the same plan in almost identical terms.--Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil d'etat," p.238 (session of March 4, 1806): "Within forty-eight hours after peace with England, I shall interdict foreign commodities and promulgate a navigation act forbidding any other than French vessels entering our ports, built of French timber, and with the crews two-thirds French. Even coal and English 'milords' shall land only under the French flag."--Ibid., 32.]