[Footnote 410: Letters of January 31st and February 2nd to Joseph.]
[Footnote 411: Printed in Napoleon's "Corresp." of February 17th. I cannot agree with Ernouf, "Vie de Maret," and Fournier, that Caulaincourt could have signed peace merely on Maret's "carte blanche" despatch. The man who had been cruelly duped by Napoleon in the D'Enghien affair naturally wanted an explicit order now.]
[Footnote 412: Given by Ducasse, "Les Rois Frères de Napoléon," p. 64.]
[Footnote 413: Hausser, p. 503. According to Napoleon, 6,000 men and forty cannon were captured!]
[Footnote 414: Letter of February 18th, 1814.]
[Footnote 415: At Elba Napoleon told Colonel Campbell that he would have made peace at Châtillon had not England insisted on his giving up Antwerp, and that England was therefore the cause of the war continuing. This letter, however, proves that he was as set on retaining Mainz as Antwerp. Caulaincourt then wished him to make peace while he could do so with credit ("Castlereagh Papers," vol. ix., p. 287).]
[Footnote 416: Fournier, pp. 132-137, 284-294, 299.]
[Footnote 417: See Metternich's letter to Stadion of February 15th in
Fournier, pp. 319, 327.]
[Footnote 418: Houssaye, p. 102.]
[Footnote 419: Instructions of February 24th to Flahaut, "Corresp.,"
No. 21359; Hardenberg's "Diary," in Fournier, pp. 363-364.]