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I subjoin Madame de Bourrienne's notes, word for word: On the day after our second return from Germany, which was in May 1795, we mat Bonaparte in the Palais Royal, near a shop kept by a man named Girardin. Bonaparte embraced Bourrienne as a friend whom he loved and was glad to see. We went that evening to the Theatre Francais.
At dinner Bonaparte sat opposite Madame Murat at the principal table, which was appropriated to the ladies. He ate fast, and talked but little. However, when the dessert was served, he put a question to each lady. This question was to inquire their respective ages. When Madame Bourrienne's turn came he said to her, "Oh! I know yours."
Thus the reader will have before him the materials for deciding himself how far, Bourrienne's statements are in agreement with the facts and with the accounts of other writers. At the present time too much attention has been paid to the Memoirs of Madame de Remusat.
The Duke of Parma to be restored. Influence of the 18th Fructidor on the negotiations Bonaparte's suspicion of Bottot His complaints respecting the non-erasure of Bourrienne Bourrienne's conversation with the Marquis of Gallo Bottot writes from Paris to Bonaparte on the part of the Directory Agents of the Directory employed to watch Bonaparte Influence of the weather on the conclusion of peace Remarkable observation of Bonaparte Conclusion of the treaty The Directory dissatisfied with the terms of the peace Bonaparte's predilection for representative government Opinion on Bonaparte.
Far from regarding him as a man who required watching; having learned that he wished to go to Paris, I caused a passport to be procured for him, which he was to receive at Frankfort; and I never heard that this dangerous citizen had compromised the safety of the state in any way." Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon, vol. iv., p. 108. In his journal of November 24, Burr writes:
And he almost snatched the letter from Bourrienne's hand. "And for me?" asked Roland. "Nothing for me?" "Nothing." "That is strange," said the young man, pensively. The moon had risen, and by its clear, beautiful light Bonaparte was able to read his letters. Through the first two pages his face expressed perfect serenity.
On the first discovery which Bonaparte made of Bourrienne's infidelity, Talleyrand complimented him upon not having suffered from it. "Do you not see," answered Bonaparte, "that it is also one of the extraordinary gifts of my extraordinary good fortune? "Even traitors are unable to betray me. Plots respect me as much as bullets."
It will be amusing, perhaps, to compare the following extracts from De Bourrienne's work with a brief memorandum from Colonel Burr's diary, showing in what light they reciprocally regarded each other. "At the height of his glory and power, Bonaparte was so suspicious that the veriest trifle sufficed to alarm him.
From whatever viewpoint he has looked back upon this, which he now believes to have been the crisis in his life, he is convinced that his mother's instinct saved him from a grievous mistake. The Scribner house, in its foreign-book department, had imported some copies of Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon, and a set had found its way to Bok's desk for advertising purposes.
The person who came with the message to my house put many questions to Madame de Bourrienne's sister respecting my absence, and advised her, above all things, to conjure me not to follow the King, observing that the cause of Louis XVIII. was utterly lost, and that I should do well to retire quietly to Burgundy, as there was no doubt of my obtaining the Emperor's pardon.
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