He stopped, listened, and said to his old schoolmate, whom he had made his secretary,-- "Ah, Bourrienne! that reminds me of my first years at Brienne; we were happy there, were we not ?" To the chaplain who had prepared him for that most important occasion in the lives of all French children, his first communion, and who had taken a fatherly interest in him, Napoleon, when powerful and great, wrote: "I can never forget that to your virtuous example and wise lessons I am indebted for the great fortune that has come to me.

Without religion, no happiness, no future, is possible.

My dear friend, remember me in your prayers." Even his old adversary, Bouquet, whose mean ways had brought Napoleon into so many scrapes, was not forgotten.

Bouquet was a bad fellow.

Years after, he was caught doing some great mischief; and Napoleon, as his superior officer, would have been obliged to punish him.