Footnote 56: Among these letters printed was one of mine, written from Bâle to the Emperor on the subject of M. Werner.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 57: M. de Flahaut saw truly, for it appears certain, that Marshal Grouchy had held parleys with the allies, and that an arrangement on the plan of the Duke of Ragusa was about to be signed, when General Excelmans arrested the Prussian colonel, who was sent to the marshal, to conclude the treaty already agreed upon.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 58: This information was false.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 59: This shows how unjustly Napoleon has been reproached with having falsified the truth, and calumniated the army, in that bulletin.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 60: The general name of that part of the country, which borders the coast.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 61: This affair, and the death of La Roche-jaquelin, took place on the 11th of June, and were not known at Paris till the 19th.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 62: These resolutions were sent to the chamber of peers also: but this chamber, knowing, that it had no right, to send for the Ministers, contented itself, considering the present circumstances, with giving its approbation to the first three articles.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 63: In fact, the Duke of Otranto did write to M. Manuel.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 64: This answer was cut short by the president: I give it here entire.[Back to Main Text.]
Footnote 65: The title of Emperor had not been given him in this deliberation. He had been called merely Napoleon Bonaparte.[Back to Main Text.]