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3551What signifies that,replied Bonaparte,"if it was necessary to the object he had in view?"
3551But is there not some ground for suspecting the fidelity of him who writes or dictates his own history?
3551But it may be said to me, Why should we place more confidence in you than in those who have written before you?
3551Have I not always been contending either with domestic enemies or foreign foes?
3551He asked me whether I would go with him?
3551His favourite phrase, which was every moment on his lips, must not be forgotten--"What will history say-- what will posterity think?"
3551However great Napoleon may have been, was he not also liable to pay his tribute to the weakness of human nature?
3551I sacrificed my home, abandoned my property, and lost everything for the Republic?
3551In what class am I placed?
3551Ought the representatives to reduce the Government to the necessity of being unjust and impolitic?
3551Salicetti, you know me; and I ask whether you have observed anything in my conduct for the last five years which can afford ground of suspicion?
3551Since the commencement of the Revolution, have I not always been attached to its principles?
3551The wish to be acquainted with the most minute details of the life of a man formed on an unexampled model[??
3551The wish to be acquainted with the most minute details of the life of a man formed on an unexampled model[??
3551Was there any other charge against him, or had calumny triumphed over the services he had rendered to his country?
3551What does it contain?
3551What resistance could it have opposed to the man destined to change the face of all Europe?
3551What would have become of me had I been in Verona on the Monday?
3551Why, then, am I declared suspected without being heard, and arrested eight days after I heard the news of the tyrant''s death?
3552Well, General,said I,"what think you of our journey?
3552What was the force of that army?
3552''For what purpose are we come here?''
3552--"What is it, and on whose behalf?"
3552Are you satisfied?
3552But what has been the result of this great political spoliation?
3552Can the mercy which they have exercised even in the fury of battle be extinct in their hearts?
3552Do you know that you have all of you been the cause of my not following up the battle of Chebreisse?
3552Have the soldiers of liberty become executioners?
3552He considered victory to be a thing that was impossible, and even with a victory, what would have become of the expedition?
3552He never failed to ask whence they came?
3552He one day said to me:"What gross stupidity, is this?
3552He said:"The three armies, of the North, of the Rhine, and of the Sambre- et- Meuse, are to form only one, the army of Germany.--Augereau?
3552How could he have supported the establishment he did with only 15,000 francs of income and the emoluments of his rank?
3552How could it ever be said that the Directory"kept General Bonaparte away from the great interests which were under discussion at Rastadt"?
3552I know well there are societies where it is said,"Is this blood, then, so pure?"
3552Is he the author?"
3552It was speedily ascertained that the little advanced guard of the headquarters had not heard the"Qui vive?"
3552Then how oppose all the Austrian forces that will march to the protection of Vienna?
3552What does he desire of me?"
3552What was Bonaparte''s conduct?
3552When I saluted the General, whom I had not seen for twelve days, he thus addressed me:"So you are here, are you?
3552Why then fight for a few paltry villages?
3552Will you send, for this purpose, your power of attorney to Bacciocchi, or to whomsoever you think fit?
3552what course they had sailed?
3552what ships they had met?
3552what was their destination?
3554Bourrienne,said he,"can you imagine anything more pitiable than their system of finance?
3554Do you know, Bourrienne,said he,"that I have been performing the duties of professor?"
3554Has my wife been saying anything more to you about the Bourbons?
3554Have you not read your bulletin?
3554Have you read this bulletin?
3554Well and had you not the resource of weak states? 3554 What are you doing there, Bourrienne?
3554Where have you been?
3554--"Do you imagine I do not think of it?
3554--"General, need I remind you that Louis, in his letter, guarantees the contrary of all you apprehend?
3554--"How the devil should I know?"
3554--"I, General?
3554--"Nay, that is impossible."--"Why?"
3554--"Well, Bourrienne, what do you say to it?
3554--"Well, General, why not take means to obviate the mischief you foresee?"
3554--"What is it?"
3554After this, what more can be wanted?
3554Are you satisfied?"
3554At another time he would say,"Your dress is none of the cleanest..... Do you ever change your gown?
3554Bonaparte, on seeing the pearls, did not fail to say to Madame,"What is it you have got there?
3554But are there no means of making them refund?
3554But why did he wish to stamp false initials on things with which neither he nor his reign had any connection; as, for example the old Louvre?
3554But why?
3554Can it for a moment be doubted that the principal agents of authority daily committed the most fraudulent peculations?
3554Can you see how far reaction would extend?"
3554Citizen, what say they of Bonaparte?
3554Could it ever have been imagined that the correspondence of the army, to whom he addressed this proclamation, teemed with accusations against him?
3554Could there be a greater proof of the Consul''s horror of tyranny?
3554Did he do well?
3554Did you ever know men rise by their own merit under kings?
3554Do n''t you think we have not worked badly since that time?
3554Do you imagine that all those who came to flatter me were sincere?
3554Do you not read them?
3554Do you recollect the necklace?"
3554Do you remember what you said to me in the Rue St. Anne nearly two years ago?"
3554Do you think I would have left you alone with a man like that?
3554Have they not actually consumed 75,000,000 in advance?
3554He showed me this letter, saying,"What do you think of it?
3554How shall I be sure that you will not compromise other persons equally unjustly?
3554How was she to wear a necklace purchased without her husband''s knowledge?
3554I asked Josephine whether she wore out two hats in one day?
3554I know what will be your answer; but are you not able to impose whatever conditions you may think fit?
3554I was directed to answer,"The First Consul,"to the sentinel''s challenge of,"Who goes there?"
3554Is he still here?"
3554Tell me why you wish the Bourbons back?
3554Was not this opinion of Bonaparte, formed on the past, fully verified by the future?
3554Was not this well done, Bourrienne?
3554Well, whom do you think I mean to appoint in his place?
3554What do people say of that buffoon, Bonaparte?"
3554What do you think I did at the Temple?
3554What respect, indeed, could Bonaparte entertain for the applicants to the treasury of the opera?
3554What should he have cared for the column which we beheld on our arrival in Alexandria had it not been Pompey''s pillar?
3554What was to be done?
3554What will become of us when you are gone?
3554What would have ensued?
3554When Bonaparte returned to his cabinet he said to Rapp,"Tell me, Rapp, why you left these doors open, and stopped with Bourrienne?"
3554When I had examined it I said,"General, it has been due for a long time; why have you not got it paid?
3554When he looked at them he said,"Here is money-- what is the meaning of this?"
3554Where did you get these pearls?
3554Who but a thorough Republican, the stanch friend of equality, would have done this?
3554Who could help being intoxicated by so much enthusiasm?
3554Who would suppose it?
3554Who, in Heaven''s name, has not already inhabited this palace?
3554Yet what was this liberty?
3554You talk of the future; but what will be the future fate of France?
3554carried off?
3554how could you send me such reports as these?
3554how?"
3554is it not good?
3554was it not in your power to let them escape?"
3553Did he speak about Egypt?
3553Have you seen him, Bourrienne?
3553Sieyès, however, is a very profound man.--"Profound?"
3553What did you go there for?
3553What matters that? 3553 What will become of me,"said he,"if the English, who are cruising hereabout, should learn that I have landed in Corsica?
3553What would you have, my dear?
3553You are, then, decidedly going to Asia?
3553--"A Chouan?"
3553--"But are you sure he is against you?"
3553--"What can all this mean?"
3553--"Why should I be in uniform?"
3553And at what a time did this disaster befall him?
3553And was this not to be obtained?
3553And why should he have done so?
3553And, finally, what must be done with them when under the ramparts of that town, if we should be able to take them there?
3553As for me, have I not, I ask you, made sufficient advances to him?
3553As he was an eyewitness, why does he not state the whole truth, and say that on her return Bonaparte refused to see her and did not see her?
3553As we passed the Place Louis XV., now Louis XVI., he asked me what was doing, and what my opinion was as to the coming events?
3553But what did Napoleon himself say on the subject at St. Helena?
3553Could it be done?
3553Could they be incorporated, disarmed, with our soldiers in the ranks?
3553Could we even tell what might occur during the march?
3553Do you know what passed when I took him aside?
3553Finding me still alone with the sentinel, he asked me, smiling,"whether I had not been frightened?"
3553General, what security would you have?"
3553Have I food for them?--ships to convey them to Egypt or France?
3553Have not the keys of Damascus already been offered me?
3553How then should the news alluded to have escaped me?
3553I asked him to give me his word that he would do nothing against me; what do you think was his answer?"
3553I have kept no memoranda of their names; and indeed, what advantage would there have been in doing so?
3553If the infected were removed, why not mention it?
3553Instead of giving an explanation of what he had said, he began to make fresh accusations; and against whom?
3553Is Fortune to be again brought forward here?
3553Is history to be written from such documents?
3553It was then asked how we could, without that consent, have attempted such an enterprise?
3553One day, after a long pause, he said to me:"Do you know what I am thinking of?"
3553Should the prisoners be set at liberty?
3553Should they be embarked?
3553Should they be sent into Egypt?
3553This boasting might impose on those who did not see the real state of things; but what were we to think of it?
3553What did Bernadotte do?
3553What do you think of that, Bourrienne?"
3553What do you want me to do with them?"
3553What is a Christian dog to a Turk?
3553What might happen in the event of a battle before St. Jean d''Acre?
3553What more could we do in Syria but lose men and time, neither of which the General had to spare?
3553What would he do with me?
3553When I returned to the tent of the General- in- Chief he asked,"How is Caffarelli?"
3553When we were alone the General said to me,"Well, what do you think of that?"
3553Where had they disembarked, who had received them; what had been done with them?
3553Where were the ships?--Where could they be found?
3553Who could grant them?
3553Why be silent on so important an event?
3553Why then should it be put upon record?
3553Why this silence?
3553Why, in the devil''s name, have they served me thus?"
3553With this conviction, would he have left the head apothecary in that town?
3553Would it be believed?
3553Would you believe it?
3553Would you imagine it?
3553[ 31]--[Here Bourrienne says in a note"Where did Sir Walter Scott learn that we were neither seen nor recognised?
3553do you not see that the Druses only wait for the fall of Acre to rise in rebellion?
3553to wish to hear that preface?
3553what are you about?"
3553would you believe it?
3567, said the Emperor;to Court?"
3567Ah, Monsieur, if we condemn him, how shall we be able to acquit ourselves?
3567Am I;said Napoleon,"to regulate my actions by the Grand Marshal''s watch?
3567And indeed what order could Marshal Ney have given?
3567Bourrienne,said he,"can you imagine anything more pitiable than their system of finance?
3567Bourrienne,said he,"do you still keep up your acquaintance with the Fauchers?"
3567But is there none in the Guard''s chest? 3567 But,"added Reynier,"if you should persist in forcing him to resign the supreme power, whom will you put in his place?"
3567Can you carry it to this point? 3567 Did he speak about Egypt?"
3567Do you confess having been arrested in the place designated by the witness?
3567Do you know, Bourrienne,said he,"that I have been performing the duties of professor?"
3567Do you think I have time to read all your fooleries?
3567Do you think,returned he,"that my heart is less French than yours?
3567Had he not seduced his sisters, one after the other?
3567Has my wife been saying anything more to you about the Bourbons?
3567Has not your insatiable ambition brought us to this? 3567 Have you any one among your officers,"he asked,"who is well acquainted with Ragusa?"
3567Have you not read your bulletin?
3567Have you read this bulletin?
3567Have you seen him, Bourrienne?
3567How can I help it?
3567How can you expect,said Napoleon,"that I can accede to such a proposition?
3567How did Napoleon receive you?
3567How so?
3567How,said I, with thorough astonishment,"how came you to be employed in this affair?
3567Is it done, Noverraz?
3567Is it my fault?
3567Is it really true,said the Emperor to them,"that you thought of crossing the sea in this?"
3567Is, then, my power so insecure,said he,"that it may be put in peril by a single individual, and a prisoner?
3567Marshal,said the Emperor, before he opened the letter,"may this be read aloud?"
3567My dear Bourrienne,said he,"can you suppose that the elevated rank I have attained has altered my feelings towards you?
3567Of what do you complain?
3567Pray,said he,"am I not thought to be given to a belief in predestination?"
3567See,said he one day,"was there ever such an inconsistency?
3567Sieyès, however, is a very profound man.--"Profound?"
3567Simpleton,said Lefebvre,"why did you not come to me?
3567Sir, said the Emperor, getting more and more irritated,I have given the orders once more; why have they not been executed?
3567So, Monsieur Horan,said he,"you did not leave the Empress during her malady?"
3567That is not much good, is it?
3567Well and had you not the resource of weak states? 3567 Well, Bourrienne,"said Murat, after we had exchanged the usual courtesies,"well, what are you about now?"
3567Well, Doctor,said he to him,"are you satisfied with your patient-- is he obedient enough?
3567Well, Esmenard,said he,"do you still hold your place in the police?"
3567Well, General,said I,"what think you of our journey?
3567Well, General?
3567Well,asked the latter,"have you seen Bourrienne?"
3567Well,said he,"and what would you have done?"
3567Well?
3567What are you doing here?
3567What are you doing there, Bourrienne? 3567 What can I do?"
3567What did you go there for?
3567What have I said?
3567What is it,said he,"these babblers want?
3567What is it?
3567What is the matter?
3567What matters that? 3567 What pamphlet is this?
3567What signifies that,replied Bonaparte,"if it was necessary to the object he had in view?"
3567What was the cause of that malady?
3567What was the force of that army?
3567What will become of me,said he,"if the English, who are cruising hereabout, should learn that I have landed in Corsica?
3567What would you have, my dear?
3567What,said Josephine,"can be thought of this in Paris?
3567What; General, is it you?
3567Where are you going? 3567 Where have you been?"
3567Where is Duroc?
3567Where was my head when I made that grant?
3567Who could have foreseen,said he,"that after being your prisoner I should become the protector of your property?
3567Why,he said, addressing me hastily,"why was not my letter delivered yesterday evening?"
3567Would you believe, my dear friend, that the persons to whom I made these candid protestations laughed at my credulity? 3567 You are above these weaknesses; but what would you have?
3567You are in love? 3567 You are perhaps right, sir,"said M. de Blacas,"but what could I do?
3567You are, then, decidedly going to Asia?
3567You remarked it, Bourrienne?
3567You seem to admire him greatly,said Bonaparte to M. Lemercier;"what do you find in him so astonishing?
3567You will dine with me?
3567''Do you see this man?''
3567''Excommunicated you, my son?''
3567''For what purpose are we come here?''
3567''How is that?''
3567''I know,''said I,''that your Majesty may still keep the sword drawn, but with whom, and against whom?
3567''If they do not like me to remain in France, where am I to go?
3567''Should they,''thought I,''suffer for their mother''s faults?''
3567''Was not this well done, Bourrienne?''
3567''Well,''said I,''since it was so very right, why did you not follow my example, and why leave me to say all?''
3567''Well,''said the First Consul, advancing angrily towards Fouché,''will you still say that this is the Royalist party?''
3567''What do they mean to do with me?''
3567''What do they want with me?''
3567''What do you suppose they would do to a man disarmed like me?
3567''Why not America?''
3567''Why should I not stay here?''
3567''Will you have the goodness, Madame,''said he,''to go and wait for me at my head- quarters?
3567-- What could be expected from Regnier, charged as he was with incompatible functions?
3567--"A Chouan?"
3567--"A very young man, say you?
3567--"And how much did you pay him?"
3567--"And what did he say?"
3567--"And what then?"
3567--"And whose, then?"
3567--"Are you not my secretary?"
3567--"But are you sure he is against you?"
3567--"But the money?"
3567--"But what is to be done?
3567--"But, Sire, is she not as unhappy in being banished from her country and her friends as if she were in prison?"
3567--"Did he reproach me with nothing else?"
3567--"Did she see that she was dying?
3567--"Did you kill a man?"
3567--"Did you not choose him; why then can you not choose some one else to govern you?
3567--"Did you tell him I wished him to pay 6,000,000 into your chest?"
3567--"Do you imagine I do not think of it?
3567--"Do you think I am to be deceived by these fair promises?
3567--"Does not her conduct justify me in so doing?"
3567--"General, have you proofs against him?"
3567--"General, need I remind you that Louis, in his letter, guarantees the contrary of all you apprehend?
3567--"General,"said I,"on what do you ground this assurance?"
3567--"How came you to give your dog that name?"
3567--"How so, you little rogue; do you mean to insult me?"
3567--"How the devil should I know?"
3567--"I do not know; but is this the time to think of such a thing, when the eyes of all France are fixed upon you?
3567--"I, General?
3567--"In May?
3567--"Is he still at home?"
3567--"May I presume to inquire what it is?"
3567--"Nay, that is impossible."--"Why?"
3567--"Not a hair has escaped me: what say you?"
3567--"Oh no, it is worthless; what say you?"
3567--"Sire, how can you imagine my mother is happy when she is absent from her country and her friends?
3567--"Sire, my brother and myself had intended to settle in France, but how can we live in a country where our mother can not visit us?"
3567--"Sire, will your Majesty permit me to repeat that my mother has no wish whatever to mingle in society?
3567--"That is true, I certainly do not."--"Why?"
3567--"Then surely you would not harm the man by whom it is signed?"
3567--"Then why do you take the trouble to accompany me?"
3567--"Then you do not know where he is gone?"
3567--"Very badly, Sire."--"How?
3567--"Well, Bourrienne, are you of the opinion that Moreau is innocent?"
3567--"Well, Bourrienne, what do you say to it?
3567--"Well, General, why not take means to obviate the mischief you foresee?"
3567--"Well, then, why did you allow it to appear?"
3567--"What am I to understand by that?"
3567--"What can all this mean?"
3567--"What did he say?
3567--"What has Bourrienne done?"
3567--"What is it, and on whose behalf?"
3567--"What is it?"
3567--"What is your name?"
3567--"What is your objection to Desfournaux?"
3567--"What were you doing in Paris?"
3567--"What, sir?"
3567--"What, would you part from her?"
3567--"Where is Bourrienne?"
3567--"Where is your mother?"
3567--"Who was in company with you?"
3567--"Whom have you seen in Paris?"
3567--"Why should I be in uniform?"
3567--"Why should I not?
3567--"Why, General?"
3567--"Will not your troops join me in an advance on Paris?"
3567--"Will she like that?"
3567--"Yes, Sire, she loved you, and she would have proved it had it not been for dread of displeasing you: she had conceived an idea."--"How?
3567--"You believe that?"
3567--''And who has not, Sire?''
3567--''But if I were to pardon you would you be grateful for my mercy?''
3567--''By whom were you sent?
3567--''Did you intend to kill me then?''
3567--''Did you mean to attempt his life?''--''Yes.''--''Why?''
3567--''Does your Majesty suppose that I can bind myself by such an engagement?
3567--''Have I done you any harm?''
3567--''How long have you been in Vienna?''
3567--''Is this the first time you have seen me?''
3567--''She will doubtless be much distressed at your adventure?''
3567--''What condition, Sire?''
3567--''What could I do?''
3567--''What did you intend to do with your knife?''
3567--''What do you mean?''
3567--''What does he say respecting the new regulation for the court- dresses?''
3567--''What is your father?''
3567--''Whose portrait is that which was found on you?''
3567--''Why did you wait so long before you attempted the execution of your project?''
3567--''Why did you wish to kill me?''
3567--''You are ill, then?''
3567--''You are mad, young man; you are one of the illuminati?''
3567--[Here Bourrienne says in a note"Where did Sir Walter Scott learn that we were neither seen nor recognised?
3567--he exclaimed,"is it possible you can be guilty of such baseness as this?
3567After pinching my ear and asking his usual questions, such as,"What does the world say?
3567After reading the report, would you believe that the Emperor flew into a furious passion?
3567After this, what more can be wanted?
3567Against whom did Bonaparte propose to protect them?
3567Am I no better than M. d''Artois?
3567Am I not your comrade?
3567Am I quite right?"
3567Am I strong enough to overcome all those obstacles?"
3567Am I then an advance- guard King?"
3567Am I to trouble much longer the digestion of Kings?"
3567And am I not ready to do so again?"
3567And as to the third, can he find pleasure or honour in humiliation of his son- in- law?
3567And at what a time did this disaster befall him?
3567And patting his belly with both his hands,''Can a man,''he asked,''so fat as I am be ambitious?''
3567And then what title has the Chamber to demand my abdication?
3567And was this not to be obtained?
3567And who was Ney to charge?
3567And why should he have done so?
3567And, finally, what must be done with them when under the ramparts of that town, if we should be able to take them there?
3567Apropos, Bourrienne, have you seen Corvisart?"
3567Are not all the debts of the State sacred?"
3567Are you in a hurry?
3567Are you jesting with me?
3567Are you satisfied?
3567Are you satisfied?"
3567Are you satisfied?"
3567Are you then tired of peace?
3567As M. de Stael advanced towards the Emperor the latter said,"Whence do you come?"
3567As for me, have I not, I ask you, made sufficient advances to him?
3567As he was an eyewitness, why does he not state the whole truth, and say that on her return Bonaparte refused to see her and did not see her?
3567As soon as he entered the apartment in which Napoleon was the latter stepped up to him and said,"Well, how are things going on?"
3567As we passed the Place Louis XV., now Louis XVI., he asked me what Napoleon was doing, and what my opinion was as to the coming events?
3567At another time he would say,"Your dress is none of the cleanest..... Do you ever change your gown?
3567At this period even Madame de Stael said, in a party where the firmness of M. Barbs Marbois was the topic of conversation--"What, he inflexible?
3567Austria, Russia, and Prussia have all had a slice of the cake; when the match is once kindled who knows where, the conflagration may stop?
3567Besides, what could be meant by the reasonable equivalent from England?
3567Bonaparte inquired if some fairy were to offer to gratify all his wishes what he would ask?
3567Bonaparte, is it possible you could suspect Bourrienne, who is so attached to you, and who is your only friend?
3567Bonaparte, not knowing of the little step down into the room, slipped and nearly fell,"Where is Bourrienne?"
3567Bonaparte, on seeing the pearls, did not fail to say to Madame,"What is it you have got there?
3567Bourrienne, are we not old comrades?
3567But are there no means of making them refund?
3567But can a man of sound sense listen for one moment to such a doctrine?
3567But for that I must have twenty years, and who can count on the future?
3567But for this imaginary resistance, officially announced, how would it have been possible to justify the spoliations and exactions which ensued?
3567But how can that fact be ascertained, since General d''Hautpoult was killed on that same day?
3567But if there was duplicity at Vienna was there not folly, nay, blindness, in the Cabinet of the Tuileries?
3567But is that case could I have expected more from him than from my own brother?
3567But is there not some ground for suspecting the fidelity of him who writes or dictates his own history?
3567But it may be said to me, Why should we place more confidence in you than in those who have written before you?
3567But on which side is truth?
3567But once more, what is there to fear?
3567But tell me, what would you do if he were to return?"
3567But under what pretext was the absence of the conqueror of Montebello to be procured?
3567But what are men?
3567But what can be done against illuminism?
3567But what could Mallet do?
3567But what did Napoleon himself say on the subject at St. Helena?
3567But what does this signify to England?
3567But what has been the result of this great political spoliation?
3567But why did he wish to stamp false initials on things with which neither he nor his reign had any connection; as, for example the old Louvre?
3567But why was it not addressed directly to me by Macdonald?"
3567But why?
3567But, even relying on his good faith, would be he able to keep his promise?
3567But, on the other hand, did not the people evince decided obstinacy and insubordination?
3567Can I confine him in the Temple?
3567Can it for a moment be doubted that the principal agents of authority daily committed the most fraudulent peculations?
3567Can not you stay a few minutes longer?"
3567Can she not go to Rome, to Berlin, to Vienna, to Milan, or to London?
3567Can the mercy which they have exercised even in the fury of battle be extinct in their hearts?
3567Can there be a more evident, a more direct proof of this than the digging of the grave beforehand?
3567Can there be anything in common between me and the refugees of Geneva?"
3567Can you disbelieve in God?
3567Can you endure to think of the dismemberment of our country?"
3567Can you see how far reaction would extend?"
3567Citizen, what say they of Bonaparte?
3567Could I be Prefect of Police under a Minister whom a short time before I had received orders to arrest, but who eluded my agents?
3567Could I doubt the truth of Bouvet de Lozier''s declaration, under the circumstances in which it was made?
3567Could I foresee that he would deny his first declaration when brought before the Court?
3567Could I suffer such open conspiracies against the Government?
3567Could it be done?
3567Could it ever have been imagined that the correspondence of the army, to whom he addressed this proclamation, teemed with accusations against him?
3567Could justice, that safeguard of human rights, be duly administered in the Hanse Towns when those towns were converted into French departments?
3567Could she make that sacrifice?
3567Could there be a greater proof of the Consul''s horror of tyranny?
3567Could they be incorporated, disarmed, with our soldiers in the ranks?
3567Could we even tell what might occur during the march?
3567Could we reasonably rely upon Austria?
3567Could you believe for one moment that I would tamper with a magistrate in order to induce him to exercise an unjust rigour?"
3567Could you believe that during the trial he went about clamouring in behalf of Moreau?
3567Detain him?
3567Did he do well?
3567Did he talk of a divorce?"
3567Did not all the Kings that I created act nearly in the same manner?
3567Did she show courage?"
3567Did she suffer much?"
3567Did you ever know an instance of so important an announcement proving untrue after it had been published in the London Gazette?
3567Did you ever know men rise by their own merit under kings?
3567Did you say that the fools of the Faubourg St. Germain would multiply the copies of this protest of Comte de Lille?
3567Do n''t you think we have not worked badly since that time?
3567Do not I know what he did at Lyons and the Loire?
3567Do you imagine that all those who came to flatter me were sincere?
3567Do you know that you have all of you been the cause of my not following up the battle of Chebreisse?
3567Do you know what passed when I took him aside?
3567Do you not read them?
3567Do you recollect the necklace?"
3567Do you remember what you said to me in the Rue St. Anne nearly two years ago?"
3567Do you suppose I am ignorant of what he said of me and of my vote at the National Convention?
3567Do you suppose I am not acquainted with everything?
3567Do you swear?"
3567Do you think I am to be imposed upon by that word?
3567Do you think I would have left you alone with a man like that?
3567Do you think to overawe us by this?
3567Do you wish to have an idea of their appearance?
3567Does any one imagine that the Foreign Powers will be won over by fine words?
3567Does he sulk at me?
3567Does not every State creditor say the same of his debt?
3567Does not this form a singular contrast with the patriotic munificence displayed at the death of General Foy?
3567Education-- is it not?
3567Feeling the cold air which came up the staircase he pressed my arm and said,''Are they going to put me into a dungeon?''"
3567Finding me still alone with the sentinel, he asked me, smiling,"whether I had not been frightened?"
3567Flattery?
3567For whom did I fight at Bassano?
3567Four years ago did I not with a feeble army drive before me hordes of Sardinians and Austrians, and scour the face of Italy?
3567General, what security would you have?"
3567Genevieve?"
3567Grouchy, Ney, D''Erlon-- was there treachery or was it merely misfortune?
3567Had he attached himself to me, I would doubtless have conferred on him the title of First Marshal of the Empire; but what could I do?
3567Has he not been voluntarily chosen Prince Royal of Sweden; may he not also be raised to the same rank in France?
3567Has not England sent assassins?"
3567Has not Savary also eventually got his police?
3567Have I agents in London to disturb the Government of Great Britain?
3567Have I food for them?--ships to convey them to Egypt or France?
3567Have I not always been contending either with domestic enemies or foreign foes?
3567Have I not been wounded twenty times among you?
3567Have I not shared your fatigues and privations?
3567Have I positive and substantive proof of what I assert?
3567Have I the giving of them?
3567Have not some of the intriguers put it into his head that I regard him with jealousy?
3567Have not the keys of Damascus already been offered me?
3567Have the soldiers of liberty become executioners?
3567Have they calculated upon the inevitable consequences of this abdication?
3567Have they not actually consumed 75,000,000 in advance?
3567Have you heard any bad news?"
3567Have you not sacrificed everything to that ambition, even the happiness of France?
3567He asked Antommarchi if 500 guineas would satisfy the English physician, and if he himself would like to serve Maria Louisa in quality of a physician?
3567He asked me whether I would go with him?
3567He asked, jestingly,"How it was that he frequently beat those who beat better players than himself?"
3567He complained of being accused of ambition; and observing that I looked astonished and doubtful--''What?''
3567He considered victory to be a thing that was impossible, and even with a victory, what would have become of the expedition?
3567He may have reported to you what he pleased, but could not I do the same by him?
3567He merely said,''So you have seen Bourrienne?
3567He never failed to ask whence they came?
3567He one day said to me:"What gross stupidity, is this?
3567He said:"The three armies, of the North, of the Rhine, and of the Sambre- et- Meuse, are to form only one, the army of Germany.--Augereau?
3567He says that he made us Kings; but did we not make him an Emperor?
3567He showed me this letter, saying,"What do you think of it?
3567He then asked,"Was she long ill?
3567He will not remain at Savona, and where does he wish I should send him?"
3567Here Josephine again interrupted me by exclaiming,"My kind friend, when you spoke of children did he say anything to you?
3567His favourite phrase, which was every moment on his lips, must not be forgotten--"What will history say-- what will posterity think?"
3567How are your children?
3567How can this be answered?
3567How could he be otherwise?
3567How could he have supported the establishment he did with only 15,000 francs of income and the emoluments of his rank?
3567How could it be otherwise?
3567How could it ever be said that the Directory"kept General Bonaparte away from the great interests which were under discussion at Rastadt"?
3567How could it ever be said that the Duc d''Enghien perished as a presumed accomplice in the conspiracy of Georges?
3567How could that Prince write to Bonaparte to offer him his services and to solicit the command of an army?
3567How could you suffer such a snare to be laid for him?
3567How do you think a man can make friends unless he keeps a good table?
3567How does this declaration tally with his avowal, that if he had received the Prince''s letter he should have lived?
3567How give credit to assertions so very opposite?
3567How have they made their fortunes?
3567How is this precipitation to be explained?
3567How shall I be sure that you will not compromise other persons equally unjustly?
3567How then should the news alluded to have escaped me?
3567How was it that the name of the illustrious accused was not once mentioned in the course of that awful trial?
3567How was she to wear a necklace purchased without her husband''s knowledge?
3567However great Napoleon may have been, was he not also liable to pay his tribute to the weakness of human nature?
3567I asked Josephine whether she wore out two hats in one day?
3567I asked him to give me his word that he would do nothing against me; what do you think was his answer?"
3567I at first refused my sanction to this measure; but after the charge made against him by Bouvet de Lozier, how could I act otherwise than I did?
3567I had passed the evening of this day with M. de Talleyrand, who then observed to the Emperor Alexander in my presence,"Will you support Bonaparte?
3567I have kept no memoranda of their names; and indeed, what advantage would there have been in doing so?
3567I immediately recognised the Duc de Berry,''How, Monseigneur, is it you?''
3567I know well there are societies where it is said,"Is this blood, then, so pure?"
3567I know what will be your answer; but are you not able to impose whatever conditions you may think fit?
3567I made some observations on the subject, and in particular asked whether there were sufficient proofs of his guilt to justify his condemnation?
3567I mentioned this to Bonaparte, and I immediately perceived by his hasty"What do you say?"
3567I remember that one of his chief arguments was this:"What is it that distinguishes men?
3567I replied,''do you imagine the nation will suffer a bastard to govern it?
3567I sacrificed my home, abandoned my property, and lost everything for the Republic?
3567I then asked him what he intended to do with the knife which had been found upon him?
3567I was about to depart when Fouché; called me back saying,"Why are you in such haste?
3567I was directed to answer,"The First Consul,"to the sentinel''s challenge of,"Who goes there?"
3567I will suppose myself again victorious; but what should I do in London with an army diminished three- fourths and without the hope of reinforcements?
3567I wished for the empire of the world, as who would not have done in my place?
3567I wished that he would deny the attempt; but how was it possible to save a man who was determined to sacrifice himself?
3567If I were to name you King of Spain would you accept the offer?
3567If he was not so implicated, where is the proof of his guilt?
3567If it admits it, what kind of predetermined result can that be which a simple resolution, a step, a word, may alter or modify ad infinitum?
3567If the infected were removed, why not mention it?
3567If, as Napoleon has declared, the young Bourbon was an accomplice in the crime, why was he not arrested at the time the others were?
3567Immediately after Napoleon''s examination of the young fanatic he sent for M. de Champagny:"How are the negotiations going on?"
3567In a few minutes Bonaparte entered, and taking up the pamphlet pretended to look through it:"Have you read this?"
3567In what a tone of sincerity did he say to me one day, when returning from the parade,"Bourrienne, do you hear the acclamations still resounding?
3567In what class am I placed?
3567Indeed, what said article 5 of this law?
3567Instead of giving an explanation of what he had said, he began to make fresh accusations; and against whom?
3567Is Fortune to be again brought forward here?
3567Is he ill?''
3567Is he not satisfied with being a King?''
3567Is he still here?"
3567Is he the author?"
3567Is history to be written from such documents?
3567Is it astonishing that this obscurity and vagueness should have banished all confidence on the part of the Plenipotentiaries of the Allied powers?
3567Is it believed that axioms in metaphysics, declarations of right, harangues from the tribune, will put a stop to the disbanding of an army?
3567Is it not betraying Europe to introduce Asiatic barbarities into her disputes?
3567Is it not criminal to bring foreign invasion upon a country?
3567Is it possible that you disown me?
3567Is it thus that you dare affront a Marshal of France who has bled for his country, and grown gray in victory?
3567Is it, I ask again, is it while the enemy is in France that you should have done this?
3567Is not Wright, who landed Georges and his accomplices at Dieppe, a captain in the British navy?
3567Is there treason here?
3567Is this the recompense you had in store for me?
3567It must, however, be respected, for it had its source in love of their country; but, while we excuse it, can it be justified?
3567It was impossible that the monarch could remain at the Capital, and yet, where was he to go?
3567It was not so with the Prussian Commissioner, to whom he said duly,"Are there any Prussians in my escort?"
3567It was speedily ascertained that the little advanced guard of the headquarters had not heard the"Qui vive?"
3567It was then asked how we could, without that consent, have attempted such an enterprise?
3567Let him sell his property and quit?
3567Madame Bonaparte informed me that she had heard persons to whom Bonaparte expressed a desire to recall me observe,"What would you do?
3567May I count on you?
3567Medicine was really the only political fraud to which Josephine had recourse; and in her situation what other woman would not have done as much?
3567Must Europe again be deluged with blood?
3567Napoleon broke out,"Yea, that he may end in the same manner as that of Alexander?
3567Napoleon said to the individual in question,''Well, does not the Prince regret leaving France?''
3567Napoleon would say,"why does she not ask me herself: is the girl afraid of me?"
3567Napoleon''s countenance was so altered that the Marshal, struck with the change, said, as if it were involuntarily,"Is your Majesty indisposed?"
3567Of these how many were for me?
3567On Sunday, the 9th of May, Lucien came to see Madame Bonaparte, who said to him,"Why did you not come to dinner last Monday?"
3567On coming into Napoleon''s presence he said,"What do you want, General?"
3567On reading that a slight sneer was observable in his countenance, and he said,"What are these idiots dreaming of?
3567On showing their warrant Fouché said,"What does this mean?
3567On this rock?
3567One day Napoleon said to Las Cases,"Your orthography is not correct, is it?"
3567One day, after a long pause, he said to me:"Do you know what I am thinking of?"
3567Ought I to have given it another King?
3567Ought the representatives to reduce the Government to the necessity of being unjust and impolitic?
3567Parbleu,"said Bonaparte,"that is Fouché?"
3567Salicetti, you know me; and I ask whether you have observed anything in my conduct for the last five years which can afford ground of suspicion?
3567She had asked him whether the tyrant was soon to pass that way?
3567She loved me truly-- she-- did she not?
3567She said to her father,"Would he too make me a prisoner before your eyes?
3567Should the prisoners be set at liberty?
3567Should they be embarked?
3567Should they be sent into Egypt?
3567Since the commencement of the Revolution, have I not always been attached to its principles?
3567Since you and I separated have you heard them repeated?"
3567Staps asked who Corvisart was?
3567Tell him so if you see him again, But is it not my duty to bestow as much in charity as I can?"
3567Tell me why you wish the Bourbons back?
3567The Emperor has treated you unjustly; and to whom has he not been unjust?
3567The Emperor put the following questions to Staps, which I translated, together with the answers:"''Where do you come from?''
3567The First Consul recollected him, and ordered him to be shown into his cabinet.--"What, are you here?"
3567The master could have his minister hanged with public applause, and the minister could hang-- whom?
3567The motives may be explained, but can they be justified?
3567The six battalions of the division of Nimes want clothes, equipment, and drilling, say you?
3567The treaty contained no stipulation dishonourable to Russia, whose territory was preserved inviolate; but how was Prussia treated?
3567Then how oppose all the Austrian forces that will march to the protection of Vienna?
3567Then, after a moment''s pause, he added, still addressing Macdonald,"Marshal, where shall I go?"
3567Then, suddenly changing the subject of conversation, he said,''Have you not lately observed something extraordinary in Murat?
3567There is no doubt of that, Sire; but because you are not liked in these two Courts, is it to be inferred that they would assassinate you?''
3567There is the Hotel de Noailles-- why do n''t you take it, and furnish it in proper style?"
3567They wish to be citizens-- why did they not know how to continue so?
3567This boasting might impose on those who did not see the real state of things; but what were we to think of it?
3567This he might have said; but if he did so express himself, how are we to reconcile such a declaration with the statement of O''Meara?
3567This is not what you will approve the most, but in my present situation what signifies it?
3567This plan was all very well, but how was it to be put into execution?
3567This resolution could have originated only with himself, for who would have dared to suggest it to him?
3567This was from zeal, but was not the First Consul right in saying that such zeal was unfortunate?
3567This was true; but how was it to be prevented?
3567Thus, when I am mistrustful of myself I ask, should I have been treated so at the Tuileries?
3567To England?
3567To such arguments what could have been answered?
3567To this he would not have failed to add,"Whose are the votes opposed to me?
3567Twice have 24,000,000 of French called me to the throne: which of you durst undertake such a burden?
3567Upon which the Consul angrily interrupted him, saying,"Do you think I am a mere capuchin?
3567Vexed at receiving no satisfactory answer to his inquiries he called Rapp, and said,"Do you know, Rapp, where Bourrienne is?"
3567Was I to abandon Holland to our enemies?
3567Was I to be received by my old comrade of Brienne, or by His Imperial Majesty?
3567Was Ney to be the one man to shoot down his old leader?
3567Was Ney to deliberately kill his old commander?
3567Was ever such an account of a dynasty given?
3567Was it too abrupt a transition from the habits of the twelve preceding years?
3567Was not the rapidity of the Emperor''s first operations a thing hitherto unprecedented?
3567Was not this opinion of Bonaparte, formed on the past, fully verified by the future?
3567Was there any other charge against him, or had calumny triumphed over the services he had rendered to his country?
3567Was this possible?
3567Was, then, the time for this innovation not yet arrived?
3567Well, whom do you think I mean to appoint in his place?
3567Were I to allow you to march out, what security can I have that you will not join them, and afterwards fight against me?
3567What are you about?
3567What can France do against you?
3567What can he want?
3567What can she want more?
3567What could I do, Collot?
3567What could I do?
3567What could I do?
3567What could I say to them?
3567What could I say, what could I do?
3567What could be more iniquitous than to attack me without a declaration of war?
3567What could he achieve against the English in Portugal?
3567What did Bernadotte do?
3567What did I do?
3567What do people say of that buffoon, Bonaparte?"
3567What do these people owe me?
3567What do you mean?
3567What do you mean?"
3567What do you think I did at the Temple?
3567What do you think is the point his negotiations put most forward?
3567What do you think of that, Bourrienne?"
3567What do you want me to do with them?"
3567What does all this flight of imagination mean?
3567What does he desire of me?"
3567What does it contain?
3567What happened?
3567What has been the result of the first war?
3567What in the world can be more ridiculous than commercial laws carried out to one''s own detriment?
3567What is a Christian dog to a Turk?
3567What is nature?
3567What is said about it in Paris?"
3567What is said on the subject?"
3567What is the result at present?
3567What is the result of it?
3567What mean the prayers and mysterious fasts you have ordered?
3567What means were not employed to mislead the opinion of the public respecting Moreau?
3567What might happen in the event of a battle before St. Jean d''Acre?
3567What more could we do in Syria but lose men and time, neither of which the General had to spare?
3567What now remains of Austerlitz?
3567What resistance could it have opposed to the man destined to change the face of all Europe?
3567What respect, indeed, could Bonaparte entertain for the applicants to the treasury of the opera?
3567What right had he to call him"General"Bonaparte?
3567What shall I gain by it?
3567What should he have cared for the column which we beheld on our arrival in Alexandria had it not been Pompey''s pillar?
3567What sort of a history would he write who should consult only the pages of the''Moniteur''?
3567What sovereign can, without injuring himself, persecute me?
3567What the devil am I to do, then?"
3567What then are the feelings of your army?"
3567What then remained for me to do?
3567What think you I ought to do?
3567What think you?"
3567What think you?"
3567What trade could possibly exist under the Continental system, and the ruinous severity of the customs?
3567What was Bonaparte''s conduct?
3567What was the consequence?
3567What was the course pursued by Napoleon when, being at war with Russia, he wished to detach Sweden from her alliance with Alexander?
3567What was the result of that memorable expedition?
3567What was to be done?
3567What will be the result of your conduct?
3567What will become of poor France?
3567What will become of us when you are gone?
3567What would be said of so sudden a reconciliation?
3567What would happen if the importation of these goods were absolutely prohibited in Hamburg?
3567What would have become of me had I been in Verona on the Monday?
3567What would have ensued?
3567What would he do with me?
3567What would she have done?"
3567What would that language have been?
3567What''s the meaning of this, madame?
3567What, after all, was this new oath?
3567What, in fact, was the Emperor Alexander''s situation with respect to France?
3567What, in fact, was the population of these remnants of the grand Hanseatic League of the Middle Ages?
3567What, therefore, do you expect me to do?
3567What, under such circumstances, could have been expected even from a man gifted with great talents?
3567What, who are you?
3567When Bonaparte returned to his cabinet he said to Rapp,"Tell me, Rapp, why you left these doors open, and stopped with Bourrienne?"
3567When I had examined it I said,"General, it has been due for a long time; why have you not got it paid?
3567When I returned to the tent of the General- in- Chief he asked,"How is Caffarelli?"
3567When I saluted the General, whom I had not seen for twelve days, he thus addressed me:"So you are here, are you?
3567When I spoke in confidence to your brother, could I regard him as an inquisitor?"
3567When do you think of setting out?"
3567When he looked at them he said,"Here is money-- what is the meaning of this?"
3567When shall we pay a visit to London with those brave fellows?"
3567When the day''s work was done,"Let us see,"said Talleyrand;"what did Monsieur say?
3567When we were alone the General said to me,"Well, what do you think of that?"
3567Where did you get these pearls?
3567Where had they disembarked, who had received them; what had been done with them?
3567Where is he?"
3567Where was your support-- your strength?
3567Where were the ships?--Where could they be found?
3567Where, then, would have been her navy, her trade and even her existence?
3567While negligently rolling his balls about he muttered these words:''Do you ever see Bourrienne now?''
3567Who but a thorough Republican, the stanch friend of equality, would have done this?
3567Who can assure us that that General had been able to communicate with the Marshal?
3567Who could grant them?
3567Who could have suggested to him such an act as this?"
3567Who could help being intoxicated by so much enthusiasm?
3567Who has not made a pilgrimage to Vincennes and dropped a tear where the victim fell?
3567Who urged you to this crime?''
3567Who would believe it?
3567Who would not suppose from this phrase that Napoleon had taken no part whatever in the great financial operation between Spain and South America?
3567Who would suppose it?
3567Who, in Heaven''s name, has not already inhabited this palace?
3567Who, indeed, could be so blind as not to see that the ruin of the Continent would be the triumph of British commerce?
3567Why allow her to have all the advantages of the first step?
3567Why are you vexed at such trifles?
3567Why be silent on so important an event?
3567Why did he get Talleyrand to ask me for a passport?
3567Why did he not apply for a passport as every one else does?
3567Why did the cannon- balls spare me only to die in this deplorable manner?
3567Why did they wink at the accumulation in the Tuileries of the contributions and exactions levied in, conquered countries?
3567Why did you go and get into debt with that-----?
3567Why did you not make your complaints in private to me?
3567Why do you remain Minister of the Police if you wish to betray me?
3567Why do you return with the First Consul?
3567Why does he make himself a Neapolitan?
3567Why is he not a Frenchman?
3567Why not anticipate her?
3567Why should I have dreaded it?
3567Why should not France, if it ceases to be free, prefer the race of her ancient kings?
3567Why should she wish to place herself immediately within the reach of my tyranny?
3567Why should the Russians have the right of opposing destiny and thwarting our just designs?
3567Why the devil, then, do you come to me for advice?
3567Why then fight for a few paltry villages?
3567Why then should it be put upon record?
3567Why this silence?
3567Why, in the devil''s name, have they served me thus?"
3567Will you breakfast with me tomorrow morning?''
3567Will you send, for this purpose, your power of attorney to Baciocchi, or to whomsoever you think fit?
3567With eyes burning with rage, he exclaimed in an excited voice,"Why have my orders not been executed?"
3567With this conviction, would he have left the head apothecary in that town?
3567Would it be believed?
3567Would so long an interval have been suffered to elapse before he was arrested?
3567Would they wish to proclaim in the face of the world that all they did was through fear?
3567Would you believe it,"pursued Rapp,"that neither Murat nor Berthier said a word in reply?
3567Would you believe it?
3567Would you have dared to fire on me?''
3567Would you imagine it?
3567Yet that is the way your grandfather defended Louis XVI..... As to the confiscation you speak of, what does that prove?
3567Yet what was this liberty?
3567You are a brave fellow-- I saw you at Aboukir-- how is your old father?
3567You deceive me at St. Helena?
3567You expect the Russians?
3567You have never given credit to the horrid accusation?"
3567You make remonstrances; is this a time, when the stranger invades our provinces, and 200,000 Cossacks are ready to overflow our country?
3567You see to what a string of absurdities that will lead?"
3567You talk of the future; but what will be the future fate of France?
3567Your Majesty may convince yourself of it; would you without need expose the lives of so many men?"
3567and then Napoleon much affected drew close to M. Horan, and added,"You say that she was in grief; from what did that arise?"
3567are you not angry when at length the truth reaches your ear?"
3567are you satisfied?"
3567but why?
3567carried off?
3567continued Rapp,"what could I do?
3567could he, as he asked, stop the sea with his hands?
3567did he really say so?"
3567did you venture so far?"
3567do you not see that the Druses only wait for the fall of Acre to rise in rebellion?
3567etc.,"he said to me,"By the by, have you attended the proceedings against Moreau?"
3567exclaimed he,"does Chateaubriand think I am a fool, and that I do not know what he means?
3567has calumny such powerful charms that, once they are submitted to, their yoke can not be broken?
3567have I nothing but my cloak and my sword now?''"
3567have you not got the Cross?
3567he added,''have I accustomed them to such great victories that they knew not how to bear one day''s misfortune?
3567he continued,''am I ambitious then?''
3567he exclaimed,"what is your opinion?
3567he said,"Why was I not there to take my chance?
3567how could you send me such reports as these?
3567how many children they had, and who their husbands were?
3567how?"
3567is it not good?"
3567is not now sitting opposite to you?
3567is that all?
3567nothing-- all authority is in the Throne; and what is the Throne?
3567repeated Napoleon hastily,"and what is that something else?"
3567said Bonaparte,"it is Chateaubriand''s book, is it?
3567said the soldier,"why does he come with his diplomacy to such a devil of a country as this?"
3567she used to speak of me then?"
3567then a crime is nothing to you?''
3567to wish to hear that preface?
3567was any general ever expected to undergo such a test?
3567was it not in your power to let them escape?"
3567were they not to blame in throwing stones at the guard, forcing the palisades, and even refusing to listen to the voice of the magistrates?
3567what are you about?"
3567what course they had sailed?
3567what have we here?
3567what is your opinion of it?"
3567what ships they had met?
3567what was their destination?
3567what will become of us?"
3567what will become of us?"
3567who could then have foreseen that the duchy of Cambacérès would become the refuge of a Princess of Austria, the widowed wife of Napoleon Bonaparte?
3567would you believe it?
3567would you go with him?"