On taking leave she said to him that she went away feeling it deeply that he should have deceived her.

My poor Queen: she is quite in despair." When conducted to her carriage by Talleyrand and Duroc, she sank down overcome by emotion.

Yet, amid her tears and humiliation, the old Prussian pride had flashed forth in one of her replies as the rainbow amidst the rain-storm.

When Napoleon expressed his surprise that she should have dared to make war on him with means so utterly inadequate, she at once retorted: "Sire, I must confess to Your Majesty, the glory of Frederick the Great had misled us as to our real strength"-- a retort which justly won the praise of that fastidious connoisseur, Talleyrand, for its reminder of Prussia's former greatness and the transitoriness of all human grandeur.[152] On that same day (July 7th) the Treaty of Tilsit was signed.

Its terms may be thus summarized.