Accordingly, the year 1810 sees the climax of his great commercial experiment.
The first land to be sacrificed to this venture was Holland.

For many months the Emperor had been discontented with his brother Louis, who had taken into his head the strange notion that he reigned there by divine right.

As Napoleon pathetically said at St.Helena, when reviewing the conduct of his brothers, "If I made one a king, he imagined that he was _King by the grace of God_.

He was no longer my lieutenant: he was one enemy more for me to watch." A singular fate for this king-maker, that he should be forgotten and the holy oil alone remembered! Yet Louis probably used that mediaeval notion as a shield against his brother's dictation.

The tough Bonaparte nature brooked not the idea of mere lieutenancy.