[5] Notes and Queries, 3rd series, vol. xi. p. 507.
[6] Memoirs of Madame Junot, Duchesse d’Abrantes, Bentley, London, 1883. When quoting from her memoirs I always use this translation.
[7] Napoleon omitted the ‘u’ in Buonaparte while general-in-chief in May 1796.
[8] Madam Junot was very proud of her descent from Constantine Comnenus, the tenth Protogeras of Maina, who quitted Greece in 1675, landed at Genoa Jan. 1, 1676, and arrived at Corsica March 14, 1676.
[9] Buonaparte et la famille, ou Confidences d’un de leurs anciens amis, Paris 1816.
[10] Denying by every means the authority of nations, obedience to princes, or liberty to the Church. He usurped the goods of all, the treasure of neutrals, the souls of nations: in very truth he was an execrable tyrant.
[11] The Corsican’s Downfall, p. 9.
[12] Buonaparte the Emperor of the French considered as the Lucifer and Gog of Isiah and Ezekiel, &c., by L. Mayer, Lond. 1806, p. 86.
[13] Memoirs, p. 269.
[14] His nephew was afterwards prefect in Corsica. He was a relation of Napoleon.