He summoned me....

plaintive cries involuntarily escaped him."] [Footnote 1219: Madame de Remusat, I., 121, 342; II., 50; III., 61, 294, 312.] [Footnote 1220: De Segur, V., 348.] [Footnote 1221: Yung, II., 329, 331.

(Narrated by Lucien, and report to Louis XVIII.)] [Footnote 1222: "Nouvelle relation de l'Itineraire de Napoleon, de Fontainebleau a l'Ile de l'Elbe," by Count Waldberg-Truchsees, Prussian commissioner (1885), pp.22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, 34, 37 .-- The violent scenes, probably, of the abdication and the attempt at Fontainebleau to poison himself had already disturbed his balance.

On reaching Elba, he says to the Austrian commissioner, Koller, "As to you, my dear general, I have let you see my bare rump."-- Cf.

in "Madame de Remusat," I., 108, one of his confessions to Talleyrand: he crudely points out in himself the distance between natural instinct and studied courage .-- Here and elsewhere, we obtain a glimpse of the actor and even of the Italian buffoon; M.de Pradt called him "Jupiter Scapin." Read his reflections before M.de Pradt, on his return from Russia, in which he appears in the light of a comedian who, having played badly and failed in his part, retires behind the scenes, runs down the piece, and criticize the imperfections of the audience.