Contrast this statement with his later efforts (_Reminiscences_, vol.ii.pp.

95-100) to prove that he helped to bring on war.] The fallen monarch accepted the King's offer of the castle of Wilhelmshoehe near Cassel for his residence up to the end of the war; it was the abode on which Jerome Bonaparte had spent millions of thalers, wrung from Westphalian burghers, during his brief sovereignty in 1807-1813.

Thither his nephew set out two days after the catastrophe of Sedan.

And this, as it seems, was the end of a dynasty whose rise to power dated from the thrilling events of the Bridge of Lodi, Arcola, Rivoli, and the Pyramids.

The French losses on September 1 were about 3000 killed, 14,000 wounded, and 21,000 prisoners.