Talleyrand, p. 281.
B. and F. State Papers, 1814-15, ii. 1001.
Castlereagh did not contradict them. Records: Cont., vol. 10, Jan. 8.
British and Foreign State Papers, 1814-15, p. 642. Seeley's Stein, iii. 303. Talleyrand, Preface, p. 18.
Chiefly, but not altogether, because Napoleon's war with England had ruined the trade of the ports. See the report of Marshal Brune, in Daudet, La Terreur Blanche, p. 173, and the striking picture of Marseilles in Thiers, xviii. 340, drawn from his own early recollections. Bordeaux was Royalist for the same reason.
Berriat-St. Prix, Napoléon à Grenoble, p. 10.
Béranger, Biographie, p. 373, ed. duod.
See their contemptible addresses, as well as those of the army, in the Moniteur, from the 10th to the 19th of March to Louis XVIII., from the 27th onwards to Napoleon.
i.e., Because he had abused his liberty. On Ney's trial two courtiers alleged that Ney said he "would bring back Napoleon in an iron cage." Ney contradicted, them. Procès de Ney, ii. 105, 113.
British and Foreign State Papers, 1814-15, ii. 443.