Dumas' pen-pictures of the great Napoleon--whom he referred to as "The Ogre of Corsica"--will hardly please the great Corsican's admirers, though it is in no manner contemptuous. The following is from "The Count of Monte Cristo": "'Monsieur,' said the baron to the count, 'all the servants of his Majesty must approve of the latest intelligence which we have from the island of Elba. Bonaparte--' M. Dandré looked at Louis XVIII., who, employed in writing a note, did not even raise his head. 'Bonaparte,' continued the baron, 'is mortally wearied, and passes whole days in watching his miners at work at Porto-Longone.' "'And scratches himself for amusement,' added the king. "'Scratches himself?' inquired the count. 'What does your Majesty mean?' "'Yes, indeed, my dear count. Did you forget that this great man, this hero, this demigod, is attacked with a malady of the skin which worries him to death, _prurigo_?' "'And, moreover, M. le Comte,' continued the minister of police, 'we are almost assured that, in a very short time, the usurper will be insane.' "'Insane?' "'Insane to a degree; his head becomes weaker. Sometimes he weeps bitterly, sometimes laughs boisterously; at other times he passes hours on the seashore, flinging stones in the water, and when the flint makes "ducks and drakes" five or six times, he appears as delighted as if he had gained another Marengo or Austerlitz. Now, you must agree these are indubitable symptoms of weakness?' "'Or of wisdom, M. le Baron--or of wisdom,' said Louis XVIII., laughing; 'the greatest captains of antiquity recreated themselves with casting pebbles into the ocean--see Plutarch's life of Scipio Africanus.'" Again, from the same work, the following estimate of Napoleon's position at Elba was, if not original, at least opinionated: "The emperor, now king of the petty isle of Elba, after having held sovereign sway over one-half of the world, counting us, his subjects, a small population of twenty millions,--after having been accustomed to hear the '_Vive Napoléons_' of at least six times that number of human beings, uttered in nearly every language of the globe,--was looked upon among the _haute société_ of Marseilles as a ruined man, separated for ever from any fresh connection with France or claim to her throne." * * * * * Firstly the Faubourg St. Denis is associated with Dumas' early life in Paris. He lived at No. 53 of the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis in 1824.