Really, Mr. Editor, what an excessively sublime apotheosis you make of yesterday's poor emperor! Instead of showing base ingratitude, like your contemporary, you flatter outrageously. Bonaparte did no more than presume to call himself _Napoléon_,--that is, the _lion of the desert_,--and here you make him Nicolas, which means _Conqueror of the peoples_. Ah! my dear Mr. Editor, if your _Journal de Paris_ had been a literary paper, like the _Journal des Débats_, you would have known Greek like your _confrère_--that is to say, like an inhabitant, and you would not have made such blunders. But you did not know Greek. Let us see if you are better acquainted with French. We will complete the quotation. "It is a good thing to know that Bonaparte's name is not _Napoléon_, but _Nicolas_; not Bonaparte, but Buonaparte; he cut out the U in order to connect himself with a distinguished family of that name." "You know that the Balzacs of Entraigues make out that you do not belong to their family," said someone once to M. Honoré de Balzac, the author of _Père Goriot_ and of _les Parents pauvres._ "If I do not belong to their family," retorted M. Honoré de Balzac, "so much the worse for them!" We will return to the _Journal de Paris_, and let it have its say:-- "Many people have amused themselves by making different anagrams from the name of _Buonaparte_ by taking away the U. The following seems to us to depict that personage the best: NABOT PARÉ."[1] What a misfortune, Mr. Editor, that in order to arrive at such a delightful conclusion you have been obliged to sacrifice your U, like the tyrant himself! Now, as a sequel to the verses in the _Journal des Débats_, we must quote some lines from the _Journal de Paris_; they only amount to a single strophe, but it alone, in the eyes of all lovers of poetry, is fully equal to three. Besides, these lines are of great importance: M. de Maubreuil actually waxes prophetic in the last line. TESTAMENT DE BONAPARTE "Je lègue aux enfers mon génie, Mes exploits aux aventuriers, A mes partisans l'infamie, Le grand-livre à mes créanciers, Aux Français l'horreur de mes crimes, Mon exemple à tous les tyrans, La France à ses rois légitimes, _Et l'hôpital à mes parents_." Finally, to conclude our series of quotations, we promised to return once more to the _Journal des Débats._ There shall be no cause for complaint: we will return to it twice. We will place a double-columned account, with its _Doit_ and its _Avoir_, before our readers' eyes. There was only an interval of fourteen days between the two articles, as can be seen from the dates. "JOURNAL DES DÉBATS "JOURNAL DE L'EMPIRE PARIS, 7 _mars_ 1815 PARIS, 21 _mars_ 1815 (PEAU BLANCHE) (PEAU TRICOLORE) DOIT AVOIR