Less than three weeks afterwards, the French Army was at Vienna, and the Emperor signed his decrees from the Palace of Schoenbrunn, 13th of May:
The same variety of signatures is found in the orders dated Moscow, the city which he had entered as a Conqueror, the 12th of September, 1812.
The 21st of Sept., 1812, at 3 o’clock in the morning, the Emperor signed himself as follows:
During the campaign of 1813, the Emperor sent an order from Dresden to the Major-General, dated October 1st, at noon. General Petit relates that he reflected some time before sending it, for the signature had been scratched out twice, and written a third time.
One of the next extraordinary signatures of the Emperor’s, is the following, which he gave at Erfurt, October 13, 1813: