That is a taste most persons have lost." The painter Duviquet, whose ideas were those of an artist, was embarrassed.

He did not find on the funeral mask brought from St.Helena the characteristics of that face, beautiful and powerful, which medals and busts have consecrated.

One must be convinced of this now that the bronze of that mask was hanging in all the old shops, among eagles and sphinxes made of gilded wood.

And, according to him, since the true face of Napoleon was not that of the ideal Napoleon, his real soul may not have been as idealists fancied it.

Perhaps it was the soul of a good bourgeois.