[47] Baron Fain, p. 375.
[48] "From the way in which this is related, it would be thought that Napoleon despised his native country; but I must suggest a more natural interpretation, and one more conformable to the character of Napoleon, namely, that after his abdication he had no desire to remain in the French territories."—Louis Buonaparte.
[49] For the Treaty of Fontainbleau, see Parl. Debates, vol. xxviii., p. 201.
[50] See Dispatch from Lord Castlereagh to Earl Bathurst, dated Paris, April 13, 1814, Parl. Papers, 1814.
[51] The man had to plead his desire to remain with his wife and family, rather than return to a severe personal thraldom.—S.—"I was by no means astonished at Roustan's conduct he was imbued with the sentiments of a slave, and finding me no longer the master, he imagined that his services might be dispensed with."—Napoleon, Las Cases, tom. i., p. 336.
[52] Baron Fain, p. 400.
[53] The faithful few were, the Duke of Bassano, the Duke of Vicenza, Generals Bertrand, Flahaut, Belliard, Fouler; Colonels Bassy, Anatole de Montesquiou, Gourgaud, Count de Turenne; Barons Fain, Mesgrigny, De la Place, and Lelorgne d'Ideville; the Chevalier Jouanne, General Kosakowski, and Colonel Vensowitch. The two last were Poles.
[54] Count Schouwalow was a Russian, not an Austrian minister. Prince Esterhazy, however, was there.—From Lord Burghersh.—Ed. (1842.)
[55] Savary, tom. iv., pp. 118-132.
[56] Her two grandsons walked as chief mourners; and in the procession were Prince Nesselrode, General Sacken and Czernicheffe, besides several other generals of the allied army, and some of the French maréchals and generals. The body has since been placed in a magnificent tomb of white marble, erected by her two children, with this inscription—