1287 ([return])
[ Madame de Rémusat, II., 32, 39.]
1288 ([return])
[ Madame de Rémusat, III., 169.]
1289 ([return])
[ Ibid., II., 32, 223, 240, 259; III., 169.]
1290 ([return])
[ Ibid., I., 112, II., 77.]
1291 ([return])
[ M. de Metternich, I., 286.—"It would be difficult to imagine any greater awkwardness than that of Napoleon in a drawing-room.—Varnhagen von Ense, "Ausgewählte Schriften," III., 177. (Audience of July 10, 1810): "I never heard a harsher voice, one so inflexible. When he smiled, it was only with the mouth and a portion of the cheeks; the brow and eyes remained immovably sombre,... This compound of a smile with seriousness had in it something terrible and frightful."—On one occasion, at St. Cloud, Varnhagen heard him exclaim over and over again, twenty times, before a group of ladies, "How hot!">[