[8] Lord Rosebery.
[9] This versatile writer, the author of Oberon, the translator of Lucian and Shakespeare, and the founder of psychological romance in Germany, was then in his seventy-fifth year.
[10] The historian (1755-1809), "the Thucydides of Switzerland."
[11] Horne's History of Napoleon (1841).
[12] Ibid.
[13] Exclusive of two from Josephine to Napoleon.
[14] Un millier de baise (sic).
[15] So Tennant (t'en offrir un): but Baron Feuillet de Conches, an expert in Napoleonic graphology, renders the expression t'en souffrir un.
[16] Bonaparte's courier.
[17] The date of this letter is May 29, 1800. See Notes.