The result is that he has plenty of apotheoses.

Of panegyrists he has more than Trajan.

One thing, however, has struck me, which is, that among all the qualities that have been discovered in him since the 2nd of December, among all the eulogies that have been addressed to him, there is not one word outside of this circle: adroitness, coolness, daring, address, an affair admirably prepared and conducted, moment well chosen, secret well kept, measures well taken.
False keys well made--that's the whole story.

When these things have been said, all has been said, except a phrase or two about "clemency;" and yet no one extols the magnanimity of Mandrin, who, sometimes, did not take all the traveller's money, and of Jean l'Ecorcheur, who, sometimes, did not kill all travellers.
In endowing M.Bonaparte with twelve millions of francs, and four millions more for keeping up the chateaux, the Senate--endowed by M.
Bonaparte with a million--felicitated M.Bonaparte upon "having saved society," much as a character in a comedy congratulates another on having "saved the money-box." For myself, I am still seeking in the glorification of M.Bonaparte by his most ardent apologists, any praise that would not exactly befit Cartouche or Poulailler, after a good stroke of business; and I blush sometimes for the French language, and for the name of Napoleon, at the terms, really over-raw, and too thinly veiled, and too appropriate to the facts, in which the magistracy and clergy felicitate this man on having stolen the power of the State by burglarising the Constitution, and on having, by night, evaded his oath.
When all the burglaries and all the robberies which constitute the success of his policy had been accomplished, he resumed his true name; every one then saw that this man was a Monseigneur.

It was M.
Fortoul,[1]--to his honour be it said--who first made this discovery.
[1] The first report addressed to M.Bonaparte, and in which M.Bonaparte is called _Monseigneur_ is signed FORTOUL.
When one measures the man and finds him so small, and then measures his success, and finds it so enormous, it is impossible that the mind should not experience some surprise.