The cries of "Vive Bonaparte!" and the incense prodigally offered up to him, did not however seduce him from his retired habits.

Lately the conqueror and ruler of Italy, and now under men for whom he had no respect, and who saw in him a formidable rival, he said to me one day, "The people of Paris do not remember anything.

Were I to remain here long, doing nothing, I should be lost.

In this great Babylon one reputation displaces another.

Let me be seen but three times at the theatre and I shall no longer excite attention; so I shall go there but seldom." When he went he occupied a box shaded with curtains.