P.S.—I expect to hear from you when I shall have reached the island of Elba. I am far from being in good health.
NOTES:
[1] See infra, Napoleon's Heritage, p. xxiv., Introduction.
[2] Dr. Johnson (Gentleman's Magazine, 1760), in defence of Mary Stuart.
[3] L'Homme, so spoken of during the Empire, outside military circles.
[4] Carlyle.
[5] Napier.
[6] Sometimes he is perhaps more to be trusted than the leading lexicographer, as for example when, the day after Wagram, he writes his Minister of War that the coup de Jarnac will come from the English in Spain. Now, when the Jarnac in question was slain in fair fight by La Chateignerie by a blow au jarret, it was an unexpected blow, but not surely, as Littré tells us, manœuvre perfide, déloyale. Nothing was too disloyal for perfidious Albion, but for 30,000 English to outmanœuvre three marshals and 100,000 French veterans would be, and was, the unexpected which happened at Talavera three weeks later.
[7] Findel's History of Freemasonry.