3. To confer on M. de la Fayette, the command of the national guard: and
4. To despatch patriotic commissioners, to stimulate the attachment, the zeal, and the fidelity of the troops.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 51: The double sets of inverted commas are still used to distinguish passages extracted from the official account.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 52: He had travelled from Cannes to Grenoble partly on horseback, but chiefly on foot.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 53: It was a great oversight, to send the Count d'Artois to face Napoleon. It was easy to foresee, that, if this prince should fail in a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants against eight hundred men, the business would be decided.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 54: Marshal Macdonald was not so happy. Two hussars, one of whom was drunk, pursued him, and would have arrested him, if he had not been extricated by his aide-de-camp.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 55: Those who have been about Napoleon's person know, that he recommended to his secretaries, and the officers of his household, to take notes of what he said and did on his journeys. A number of notes of this nature must have been found at the Tuileries, most of which contained particulars that were highly interesting. I preserved mine, and from them I have composed, in great measure, the present work.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 56: The Bourbons.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 57: The newspapers of the day asserted, that Napoleon, though he had in his pocket the proclamation of Augereau, filled with reproaches and invectives, had thrown himself into his arms, and heard the cutting reprehensions of the marshal, without saying a word.[(Back to main text)]
Footnote 58: He had retired to Switzerland.[(Back to main text)]