VI .-- Other analogies, which are too long for development here, may be found, especially in all that concerns the imagination and love.

"He was disposed to accept the marvelous, presentiments, and even certain mysterious communications between beings....

I have seen him excited by the rustling of the wind, speak enthusiastically of the roar of the sea, and sometimes inclined to believe in nocturnal apparitions; in short, leaning to certain superstitions." (Madame de Remusat, I., 102, and III., 164.)--Meneval (III., 114) notes his "crossing himself involuntarily on the occurrence of some great danger, on the discovery of some important fact." During the consulate, in the evening, in a circle of ladies, he sometimes improvised and declaimed tragic "tales," Italian fashion, quite worthy of the story-tellers of the XVth and XVIth centuries.

(Bourrienne, VI., 387, gives one of his improvisations.
Cf.

Madame de Remusat, I., 102.)--As to love, his letters to Josephine during the Italian campaign form one of the best examples of Italian passion and "in most piquant contrast with the temperate and graceful elegance of his predecessor M.de Beauharnais." (Madame de Remusat, I., 143) .-- His other amours, simply physical, are too difficult to deal with; I have gathered some details orally on this subject which are almost from first hands and perfectly authentic.