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[ De Puymaigre, ibid., passim.—Alexandrine des Écherolles, "Une famille noble pendant la Terreur," pp.328, 402, 408.—I add to published documents personal souvenirs and family narrations.]
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[ Duc de Rovigo, "Mémoires," IV., 399. (On the provincial noblesse which had emigrated and returned.) "The First Consul quietly gave orders that none of the applications made by the large number of those who asked for minor situations in various branches of the administration should be rejected on account of emigration.">[
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[ M. de Vitrolles, "Mémoires."—M. d'Haussonville, "Ma jeunesse," p. 60: "One morning, my father learns that he has been appointed chamberlain, with a certain number of other persons belonging to the greatest families of the faubourg Saint-Germain.">[
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[ Madame de Rémusat, "Mémoires," II., 312, 315 and following pages, 373.—Madame de Staël, "Considérations sur la révolution française," 4th part, ch IV.]
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[ Roederer, III., 459. (Speech by Napoleon, December 30, 1802.)—"Very well, I do protect the nobles of France; but they must see that they need protection.... I give places to many of them; I restore them to public distinction and even to the honors of the drawing-room; but they feel that it is alone through my good will.—Ibid., III., 558 (January 1809): "I repent daily of a mistake I have made in my government; the most serious one I ever made, and I perceive its bad effects every day. It was the giving back to the émigrés the totality of their possessions. I ought to have massed them in common and given each one simply the chance of an income of 6000 francs. As soon as I saw my mistake I withdrew from thirty to forty millions of forests; but far too many are still in the hands of a great number of them."—We here see the attitude he would impose on them, that of clients and grateful pensioners. They do not stand in this attitude. (Roederer, III., 472. Report on the Sénatorerie of Caen, 1803.)—"The returned émigrés are not friendly nor even satisfied; their enjoyment of what they have recovered is less than their indignation at what they have lost. They speak of the amnesty without gratitude, and as only partial justice.... In other respects they appear submissive.">[