60: "One morning, my father learns that he has been appointed chamberlain, with a certain number of other persons belonging to the greatest families of the faubourg Saint-Germain."] [Footnote 3137: Madame de Remusat, "Memoires," II., 312, 315 and following pages, 373 .-- Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la revolution francaise," 4th part, ch IV.] [Footnote 3138: Roederer, III., 459.

(Speech by Napoleon, December 30, 1802.)--"Very well, I do protect the nobles of France; but they must see that they need protection....

I give places to many of them; I restore them to public distinction and even to the honors of the drawing-room; but they feel that it is alone through my good will .-- Ibid., III., 558 (January 1809): "I repent daily of a mistake I have made in my government; the most serious one I ever made, and I perceive its bad effects every day.

It was the giving back to the emigres the totality of their possessions.

I ought to have massed them in common and given each one simply the chance of an income of 6000 francs.