As it very often happened with him not to clearly comprehend words which he heard for the first time, he always repeated these afterwards as he understood them; for example, he constantly used section for session, armistice for amnesty, fulminating point for culminating point, rentes voyageres for 'rentes viageres,' etc."] [Footnote 1121: De Segur, I., 174] [Footnote 1122: Cf.

the "Memoires" of Marshal Marmont, I., 15, for the ordinary sentiments of the young nobility.

"In 1792 I had a sentiment for the person of the king, difficult to define, of which I recovered the trace, and to some extent the power, twenty-two years later; a sentiment of devotion almost religious in character, an innate respect as if due to a being of a superior order.

The word King then possessed a magic, a force, which nothing had changed in pure and honest breasts....
This religion of royalty still existed in the mass of the nation,, and especially amongst the well-born, who, sufficiently remote from power, were rather struck with its brilliancy than with its imperfections....
This love became a sort of worship."] [Footnote 1123: Bourrienne, "Memoires," I.27 .-- Segur, I.445.In 1795, at Paris, Bonaparte, being out of military employment, enters upon several commercial speculations, amongst which is a bookstore, which does not succeed.

(Stated by Sebastiani and many others.)] [Footnote 1124: "Memorial," Aug.