18, 1814.
"If I had signed the treaty reducing France to its ancient limits, I should have gone to war two years after"-- Marmont, V., 133 (1813): "Napoleon, in the last years of his reign, always preferred to lose all rather than to yield anything."] [Footnote 12124: M.de Metternich, II., 205.] [Footnote 12125: Words of Richelieu on his death-bed: "Behold my judge," said he, pointing to the Host, "the judge who will soon pronounce his verdict.

I pray that he will condemn me, if, during my ministry, I have proposed to myself aught else than the good of religion and of the State."] [Footnote 12126: Miot de Melito, "Memoires,"II., 48, 152.] [Footnote 12127: "Souvenirs," by Gaudin, duc de Gaete (3rd vol.of the "Memoires," p.67).] [Footnote 12128: M.de Metternich, II., 120.

(Letter to Stadion, July 26, 1807.)] [Footnote 12129: Ibid., II., 291.

(Letter of April 11, 1809.)] [Footnote 12130: Ibid., II., 400.

(Letter of Jan.17, 1811.) In lucid moments, Napoleon takes the same view.Cf.Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil d'etat," p.