"He struck the good Germans dumb with admiration, unable to comprehend how it was that their interests had become so familiar to him and with what superiority he treated them."] [Footnote 4142: Beugnot, ibid., I., 395.

Everywhere, on the Emperor's passage (1811), the impression experienced was a kind of shock as at the sight of a wonderful apparition.] [Footnote 4143: Thiers, "Histoire du Consulat et l'Empire," XVI., 246 (January, 1813).

"A word to the prefect, who transmitted this to one of the municipal councilors of his town, was enough to insure an offer from some large town and have this imitated throughout the empire.

Napoleon had an idea that he could get towns and cantons to offer him troops of horse, armed and equipped."-- In fact, this offer was voted with shouts by the Paris municipal council and, through contagion, in the provinces.
As to voting this freely it suffices to remark how the annexed towns voted, which, six months later, are to rebel.

Their offers are not the least.