(The words of Napoleon's secretary on Napoleon's labor in Paris, after Leipsic) "He retires at eleven, but gets up at three o'clock in the morning, and until the evening there is not a moment he does not devote to work.
It is time this stopped, for he will be used up, and myself before he is."-- Gaudin, Duc de Gaete, "Memoires," III.

(supplement), p.75.

Account of an evening in which, from eight o'clock to three in the morning, Napoleon examines with Gaudin his general budget, during seven consecutive hours, without stopping a minute .-- Sir Neil Campbell, "Napoleon at Fontainebleau and at Elbe," p.243.

"Journal de Sir Neil Campbell a' l'ile d'Elbe": I never saw any man, in any station in life, so personally active and so persistent in his activity.

He seems to take pleasure in perpetual motion and in seeing those who accompany him completely tired out, which frequently happened in my case when I accompanied him..