"I needs had to: from my brother down to the Bailli de Crussol (and the latter is not suspect), every one said that we could not do otherwise. What do you think?" "Sire, the thing is done: I beg your Majesty's permission to say nothing." "No, no, speak: you know how I resisted since Ghent." "Sire, I only obey your orders; pardon my loyalty: I think the Monarchy is finished." The King kept silence; I was beginning to tremble at my boldness, when His Majesty resumed: "Well, Monsieur de Chateaubriand, I am of your opinion." This conversation concludes my story of the Hundred Days. [308] Darius III., the last King of Persia (_d._ 331 B.C.), defeated by Alexander at Arbela and assassinated by Bessus Satrap of Bactriana in his flight.--T. [309] Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi (1773-1842), the Swiss Calvinist historian and economist, author of, among many other voluminous works, the _Histoire des Français_, in 29 volumes, an erudite but prejudiced compilation.--T. [310] Lucien Bonaparte.--T. [311] Philippe Antoine Comte Merlin (1754-1838), known as Merlin de Douay, to distinguish him from Merlin de Thionville, a jurisconsult of the highest eminence and the lowest principles. He had sat in the Constituent Assembly and the Convention, held office under the Directory and the Empire, gave in his adhesion to the First Restoration, accepted office again from Napoleon in 1814, and was exiled in 1815 as a regicide who had held functions during the Hundred Days. He retired to Brussels, returning to France after the Usurpation of 1830.--T. [312] Louis XI. King of France (1423-1479) was held as a prisoner at Péronne by Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, in 1468, and compelled to sign the treaty known by the name of that town.--T. [313] The "Additional Act" was published in the _Moniteur_ of 23 April 1815.--B. [314] Murat had placed himself at the Emperor's disposal on landing at Cannes. Napoleon, dreading the contagion of ill-fortune, did not reply to the dethroned King, and had him forbidden the access to Paris by Fouché.--B. [315] _Vide_ the proclamation by Marshal Soult, _supra.--Author's Note._ [316] An allusion to Marshal Soult.--B. [317] Marshal Moncey carried the constable's sword at the coronation of Charles X.; Marshals Soult, Mortier and Jourdan the sceptre, the hand of justice and the crown respectively.--B. [318] Louis-Philippe.--T.