his health and reason are affected." Then, in a few days: "The state of mental alienation has passed."] [Footnote 51116: Memorial (Aug.17, 1816).] [Footnote 51117: D'Haussonville, V., 244.

Later, the Pope keeps silent about his interviews with Napoleon.

"He simply lets it be understood that the emperor spoke to him haughtily and contemptuously, even treating him as an ignoramus in ecclesiastical matters."-- Napoleon met him with open arms and embraced him, calling him his father.

(Thiers, XV., 295.)--It is probable that the best literary portrayal of these tete-a-tete conversations is the imaginary scene in "Grandeurs et Servitudes Militaires," by Alfred de Vigny.] [Footnote 51118: Comte Chaptal, "Notes": "No, in the course of sixteen years of a stormy government, Bonaparte never met with so much resistance and never suffered so many disappointments as were caused by his quarrel with the Pope.

There is no event in his life which more alienated the people as his proceedings and conduct towards the Pope."] [Footnote 51119: Ultramontanism; a set of doctrines establishing the pope's absolute authority.].