They tried to excite his jealousy, and took advantage of her stay at Milan after our departure, which had been authorised by Bonaparte himself.

My intimacy with both the husband and the wife fortunately afforded me an opportunity of averting or lessening a good deal of mischief.

If Josephine still lived she would allow me this merit.

I never took part against her but once, and that unwillingly.

It was on the subject of the marriage of her daughter Hortense.