It is sufficient to cite one text already published: "According to Josephine, he had no moral principle whatever; did he not seduce his sisters one after the other?
"-- "I am not a man like other men, he said of himself, "and moral laws and those of propriety do not apply to me." (Madame de Remusat, I., 204, 206.)--Note again (II., 350) his proposals to Corvisart .-- Such are everywhere the sentiments, customs, and morality of the great Italian personages of about the year 1500.] [Footnote 1202: De Pradt, "Histoire de l'ambassade dans le grand-duche de Varsovie," p.96.

"with the Emperor, desire springs out of his imagination; his idea becomes passion the moment it comes into his head."] [Footnote 1203: Bourrienne, II., 298 .-- De Segur, I., 426.] [Footnote 1204: Bodin, "Recherches sur l'Anjou," II., 325.--"Souvenirs d'un nonagenaire," by Besnard .-- Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries du Lundi," article on Volney .-- Miot de Melito, I., 297.

He wanted to adopt Louis's son, and make him King of Italy.

Louis refused, alleging that this marked favor would give new life to the reports spread about at one time in relation to this child." Thereupon, Napoleon, exasperated, "seized Prince Louis by the waist and pushed him violently out of the room."-- " Memorial," Oct.10, 1816.

Napoleon relates that at the last conference of Campo-Fermio, to put an end to the resistance of the Austrian plenipotentiary, he suddenly arose, seized a set of porcelain on a stand near him and dashed it to the floor, exclaiming, "Thus will I shatter your monarchy before a month is over!" (Bourrienne questions this story.)] [Footnote 1205: Varnhagen von Ense, "Ausgewahlte Schriften," III., 77 (Public reception of July 22, 1810).