Usually at the first call he would rise; but occasionally, still half asleep, he would mutter: "Bourrienne, I beg of you, let me sleep a little longer." Then, if there was nothing urgent, Bourrienne would return at eight o'clock; if it was otherwise, he insisted, and then, with much grumbling, Bonaparte would get up.

He slept seven, sometimes eight, hours out of the twenty-four, taking a short nap in the afternoon.

He also gave particular instruction for the night.
"At night," he would say, "come in my room as seldom as possible.

Never wake me if you have good news to announce--good news can wait; but if there is bad news, wake me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost in facing it." As soon as Bonaparte had risen and made his morning ablutions, which were very thorough, his valet entered and brushed his hair and shaved him; while he was being shaved, a secretary or an aide-de-camp read the newspapers aloud, always beginning with the "Moniteur." He gave no real attention to any but the English and German papers.
"Skip that," he would say when they read him the French papers; "_I know what they say, because they only say what I choose._" His toilet completed, Bonaparte went down to his study.

We have seen above what he did there.