[13] Talleyrand declares in his Mémoires (i. 349) that Napoleon kept Champagny, his own minister of foreign affairs, in equal darkness.
[14] See the text in [Appendix, No. II].
[15] In the curious exculpatory memoirs which Godoy published in 1835-6, with the aid of d’Esménard, he endeavours to make out that he never desired the principality, and that Napoleon pressed it upon him, because he wished to remove him from about the person of Charles IV. ‘The gift of the principality of the Algarves was a banishment’ (i. 54). This plea will not stand in the face of the fact that Godoy had solicited just such preferment as far back as the spring of 1806; see Arteche, Guerra de la Independencia, i. 148. His real object was to secure a place of refuge at the death of Charles IV.
[16] ‘Le Prince de la Paix, véritable maire du palais, est en horreur à la nation. C’est un gredin qui m’ouvrira lui-même les portes de l’Espagne’ (Fouché, Mémoires, i. 365).
[17] Talleyrand, Mémoires, i. 308-329.
[18] Ibid., i. 378, 379.
[19] The princes that occur in Spanish politics, e.g. Eboli or Castelfranco, were holders of Italian, generally Neapolitan, titles.
[20] Foy, Guerre de la Péninsule, ii. 267.
[21] See the proofs from papers in the Spanish Foreign Office, quoted in Arteche’s Guerra de la Independencia, i. 148.
[22] Toreño, i. 86. The story is confirmed by Savary, in his Mémoires, ii. 221.