January 2nd, 1802; so too Fiévée, "Mes Relations avec Bonaparte," vol. ii., p. 210, who notes that, by founding an order of nobility, Napoleon ended his own isolation and attached to his interests a powerful landed caste.
Hardenberg's "Memoirs," vol. ii., p. 390-394.
Hardenberg to Harrowby on January 7th, "Prussia," No. 70.