His head, rather thrown backwards, rose well from his shoulders, and turned on his neck with ease and grace, like all elegant men.

These haughty motions of his head made him look taller under the tricoloured cockade.

His brow was lofty, well-turned, flat at the temples, and well displayed; his muscles set in play by his reflection and resolution.

The salient and well-defined angles announced sensibility of mind beneath delicacy of understanding and the most exquisite tact.

His eyes were black, large, and full of fire; his long lids, beginning to turn grey, increased their brilliancy, though sometimes they were very soft; his nose, and the oval of his countenance, were of that aquiline type which reveals races ennobled by war and empire; his mouth, flexible and handsome, was almost always smiling; no tension of the lips betrayed the effort of this plastic mind--this master mind, which played with difficulties, overcame obstacles; his chin, turned and decided, bore his face, as it were, on a firm and square base, whilst the habitual expression of his countenance was calm and expansive cheerfulness.