(Left out in the "Correspondance de Napoleon I.," and published by M.Thiers in "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire," XII., p.

115.)] [Footnote 1279: De Segur, III., 459.] [Footnote 1280: Words of Napoleon to Marmont, who, after three months in the hospital, returns to him in Spain with a broken arm and his hand in a black sling: "You hold on to that rag then ?" Sainte-Beuve, who loves the truth as it really is, quotes the words as they came, which Marmont dared not reproduce.

(Causeries du Lundi, VI., 16.)--"Souvenirs", by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893: "M.

de Champagny having been dismissed and replaced, a courageous friend defended him and insisted on his merit: "You are right," said the Emperor, "he had some when I took him; but by cramming him too full, I have made him stupid."] [Footnote 1281: Beugnot, I., 456, 464] [Footnote 1282: Mme.

de Remusat, II., 272.] [Footnote 1283: M.de Champagny, "Souvenirs," 117.] [Footnote 1284: Madame de Remusat, I., 125.] [Footnote 1285: De Segur, III., 456.] [Footnote 1286: "The Ancient Regime," p.