[58] The first month of the Republican calendar.
[59] Memoirs, vol. ii. 165.
[60] Bouillet, Dictionnaire Universelle, &c.
[61] "The Queen of that Court was the fair Madame Tallien. All that imagination can conceive will scarcely approach the reality; beautiful after the antique fashion, she had at once grace and dignity; without being endowed with a superior wit, she possessed the art of making the best of it, and won people's hearts by her great kindness."—Memoirs of Marmont, vol. i., p. 887.
[62] This brave general was mortally wounded in the cavalry charge which saved the battle, and the friends of Bernadotte assert that the message was never given—an assertion more credible if the future king's record had been better on other occasions.
[63] Alison says 75,000 allies, 85,000 French, but admits allies had 100 more cannon.
[64] Augereau, says Méneval, went out of his mind during this battle, and had to be sent back to France.
[65] The Decree itself says "nos enfants et descendants males, legitimes et naturels."
[66] On October 11th Prince Ferdinand had written Napoleon for "the honour of allying himself to a Princess of his august family"; and Lucien's eldest daughter was Napoleon's only choice.
[67] Napoleon visited Madrid and its Palais Royal incognito, and (like Vienna) by night (Bausset).