24) .-- From Schoenbrunn, he watches the details of public works in France and Italy; for instance, the letters to M.le Montalivet (Sept.30), to send an auditor post to Parma, to have a dyke repaired at once, and (Oct.

8) to hasten the building of several bridges and quays at Lyons.] [Footnote 1170: He says himself; "I always transpose my theme in many ways."] [Footnote 1171: Madame de Remusat, I., 117, 120.

"1 heard M.de Talleyrand exclaim one day, some what out of humor, 'This devil of a man misleads you in all directions.

Even his passions escape you, for he finds some way to counterfeit them, although they really exist.'"-- For example, immediately prior to the violent confrontation with Lord Whitworth, which was to put an end to the treaty of Amiens, he was chatting and amusing himself with the women and the infant Napoleon, his nephew, in the gayest and most unconcerned manner: "He is suddenly told that the company had assembled.

His countenance changes like that of an actor when the scene shifts.