Towards the end of October, 1848, then a candidate for the Presidency, he was calling at No.

37, Rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, on a certain personage, to whom he remarked, "I wish to have an explanation with you.

They slander me.

Do I give you the impression of a madman?
They think that I wish to revivify Napoleon.

There are two men whom a great ambition can take for its models, Napoleon and Washington.