(especially the last volume).

No other work enables one to see into Napoleon's object and proceedings better nor more closely.] [Footnote 12121: "Souvenirs du feu duc de Broglie," p.143.

(As a specimen of steps taken in time of war, see the register of Marshal Bessieres' orders, commandant at Valladolid from April 11 to July 15, 1811.)--"Correspondance du Roi Jerome," letter of Jerome to Napoleon, Dec.

5, 1811.

(Showing the situation of a vanquished people in times of peace): "If war should break out, all countries between the Rhine and the Oder will become the center of a vast and active insurrection.