[334] Montholon, tom. iv., p. 103.
[335] Moniteur, Nov. 8; Thibaudeau, tom. iii., p. 423.
[336] "Un grenadier Français avait fait une action très brillante; son général lui offre trois louis. Plus noble, plus généreux, le grenadier refuse, et lui dit: 'Mon général, on ne fait pas ces choses-là pour de l'argent.' Irez-vous offrir de l'or à un homme courbé sous le poids des lauriers? Non non, l'ame de Buonaparte est trop grande," &c.—Thibaudeau, tom. iii., p. 423.
[337] Annual Register, vol. xl., p. 6.
[338] Thibaudeau, tom. iii., p. 413; Montholon, tom. iv., p. 266.
[339] Mad. de Staël, Consid. sur la Rév. Franç., tom. ii., p. 199.
[340] Considerations, tom. ii., p. 197.
[341] Las Cases, tom. iii., p. 191.
[342] Las Cases, tom. iii., p. 192; Montholon, tom. iv., p. 274; Thibaudeau, tom. iii., p. 429.
[343] "The leaders of all parties called upon him; but he refused to listen to them. The streets and squares through which he was expected to pass were constantly crowded, but Napoleon never showed himself. He had no habitual visitors, except a few men of science, such as Monge, Berthollet, Borda, Laplace, Prony, and Lagrange; several generals, as Berthier, Desaix, Lefebvre, Caffarelli, and Kleber; and a very few deputies."—Montholon, tom. iv., p. 269.