125.--"aeuvres de Louis XIV.," 191: "If there is any peculiar characteristic of this monarchy, it is the free and easy access of the subjects to the king; it an egalite de justice between both, and which, so to say, maintains both in a genial and honest companionship, in spite of the almost infinite distance in birth, rank, and power.

This agreeable society, which enables persons of the Court to associate familiarly with us, impresses them and charms them more than one can tell."] [Footnote 1287: Madame de Remusat, II., 32, 39.] [Footnote 1288: Madame de Remusat, III., 169.] [Footnote 1289: Ibid., II., 32, 223, 240, 259; III., 169.] [Footnote 1290: Ibid., I., 112, II., 77.] [Footnote 1291: M.de Metternich, I., 286.--"It would be difficult to imagine any greater awkwardness than that of Napoleon in a drawing-room .-- Varnhagen von Ense, "Ausgewaehlte Schriften," III., 177.
(Audience of July 10, 1810): "I never heard a harsher voice, one so inflexible.

When he smiled, it was only with the mouth and a portion of the cheeks; the brow and eyes remained immovably sombre,...

This compound of a smile with seriousness had in it something terrible and frightful."-- On one occasion, at St.Cloud, Varnhagen heard him exclaim over and over again, twenty times, before a group of ladies, "How hot!"] [Footnote 1292: Mme.

de Remusat, II., 77, 169 .-- Thibaudeau, "Memoires sur le Consulat," p.