[Footnote 233: "Progress of the Nation," p. 148.]
[Footnote 234: So Mollien, vol. iii., p. 135: "One knows that his powerful imagination was fertile in illusions: as soon as they had seduced him, he sought with a kind of good faith to enhance their prestige, and he succeeded easily in persuading many others of what he had convinced himself. He braved business difficulties as he braved dangers in war.">[ [Footnote 235: Miot de Melito, vol. ii., ch. xv. For some favourable symptoms in French industry, see Lumbroso, pp. 165-226, and Chaptal, p. 287. They have been credited to the Continental System; but surely they resulted from the internal free trade and intelligent administration which France had enjoyed since the Revolution.]
[Footnote 236: "Nap. Corresp.," May 8th, 1811.]
[Footnote 237: Goethe published the first part of "Faust," in full, early in 1808.]
[Footnote 238: Baur, "Stein und Perthes," p. 85.]
[Footnote 239: Lavalette, "Mems.," ch. xxv.]
[Footnote 240: Letters of October 10th and 13th, 1810, and January 1st, 1811.]
[Footnote 241: Letter of September 17th, 1810.]
[Footnote 242: Letter of March 8th, 1811. For a fuller treatment of the commercial struggle between Great Britain and Napoleon see my articles, "Napoleon and British Commerce" and "Britain's Food Supply during the French War," in a volume entitled "Napoleonic Studies" (George Bell and Sons, 1904).]
[Footnote 243: Czartoryski, "Mems.," vol. ii., ch. xvii. At this time he was taken back to the Czar's favour, and was bidden to hope for the re-establishment of Poland by the Czar as soon as Napoleon made a blunder.]