[59] "The decree constituting Fouché Governor-general of Rome, bears date June 3, 1810. 'This nomination,' says Fouché, 'was nothing but an honourable veil woven by Napoleon's policy, in order to conceal and mitigate, in the eyes of the public, my disgrace, of which his intimates alone had the secret."--_Mémoires_, tom. ii., p. 7. [60] Saumar, Ham, Landskaone, Pierre-Châtel, and Fennestrelles. [61] Fouché, tom. i., p. 352. [62] Las Cases, tom. ii., p. 283. [63] See _ante_, vol. ii., p. 211, _note_. "Louis had been spoiled by reading the works of Rousseau."--NAPOLEON, _Las Cases_, tom. ii., p. 306. [64] "As Louis and Hortensia had lived almost always separate since their marriage, except three short periods of a few months, they each demanded of the family council a separation, presently after Louis arrived at Paris in 1809. But after a meeting of the said council was granted, the separation was refused, though it had long existed in point of fact. He was informed of the refusal verbally: no document whatever was transmitted to him on a result, on which however depended the ease, condition, and fame of a man of honour."--LOUIS BUONAPARTE, _La Hollande_, tom. iii., p. 199. [65] Documens Historiques sur la Hollande, tom. iii., p. 238. [66] "This treaty, which was rather a capitulation, was imposed by the Emperor, signed by Verhueil, and ratified conditionally by the King, who added the words, '_as far as possible_.'"--LOUIS BUONAPARTE, _Documens Hist._, tom. iii., p. 248. [67] Documens Historiques, tom. iii., p. 310. [68] "This is not correct. I did not, nor could not, receive a pension from any one: my revenue was derived principally from the sale of my decorations and jewels, and the interest of the obligations I had taken upon me, in order to encourage the loan from Holland to Prussia at the time of the greatest misfortunes of the virtuous sovereign of that country, who, in spite of all opposition and every political consideration, was anxious to acquit himself towards me with scrupulous exactitude."--LOUIS BUONAPARTE, p. 69. [69] In 1808, Louis gave to the world a sentimental romance, called "Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour," of which a second edition appeared in 1814, under the title of "Marie, ou les Hollandaises." A distinguished critic describes the royal production as "a farrago of dulness, folly, and bad taste."--(_Quart. Rev._, vol. xii., p. 391.) His treatise, entitled "Documens Historiques, et Réflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande," is an unpresuming account of his administration in Holland.