He was quite willing that the book should be seized on condition that he might retain a few copies of his jovial production.

He professes high admiration for, and strong attachment to His Majesty's person, and expresses his sentiments piquantly, in the style of 1789."] [Footnote 1243: "Memorial," June 12, 1816.] [Footnote 1244: Mathieu Dumas, III., 363 (July 4, 1809, a few days before Wagram) .-- Madame de Remusat," I., 105: "I have never heard him express any admiration or comprehension of a noble action."-- I., 179: On Augustus's clemency and his saying, "Let us be friends, Cinna," the following is his interpretation of it: "I understand this action simply as the feint of a tyrant, and approve as calculation what I find puerile as sentiment."-- "Notes par le Comte Chaptal": "He believed neither in virtue nor in probity, often calling these two words nothing but abstractions; this is what rendered him so distrustful and so immoral....

He never experienced a generous sentiment; this is why he was so cold in company, and why he never had a friend.

He regarded men as so much counterfeit coin or as mere instruments."] [Footnote 1245: M.de Metternich, "Memoires," I., 241.--"Madame de Remusat," I., 93: "That man has been so harmful (si assommateur de toute vertu...) to all virtue."-- Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la Revolution Francaise," 4th part, ch.18.

(Napoleon's conduct with M.de Melzi, to destroy him in public opinion in Milan, in 1805.)] [Footnote 1246: Madame de Remusat, I., 106; II., 247, 336: "His means for governing man were all derived from those which tend to debase him.
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