[Footnote 3347: "Les Cahiers du capitaine Coignet," passim and pp. 95, 145. "When the ceremony was over, handsome women who could get at me to examine my cross, asked me if they might give me a kiss."--At the Palais Royal the proprietor of a café says to him: "Order whatever you want, the Legion of Honor is welcome to anything."] [Footnote 3348: Mazas, ibid., p. 413.--Edmond Blanc, "Napoléon, ses institutions civiles et administratives," p. 279.--The number of decorated, at first, was to be 6,000. In 1806, the emperor had nominated 14,500, and taking his entire reign, until his fall, about 48,000. The real force of legionaries, however, then living does not surpass at this time 30,000, of which only 1,200 are in civil careers. At the présent time, December 1, 1888 (documents furnished by the records of the Légion d'honneur), there are 52.915 decorated persons, of which 31,757 are soldiers and 21,158 civilians. Under the empire there was in all 1 cross to every 750 Frenchmen; at that time, out of 50 crosses there were 2 for civil services, while in our day there are nearly 20. (QUID informs us that on 30-11-1994 the strength amounted to 207,390 persons. SR.)] [Footnote 3349: Edmond Blanc, ibid., 276-299, 325 and 326. (List of titles of prince and duke conferred by the emperor, and of gifts of 100,000 francs rental or of above that sum.)] [Footnote 3350: Mathieu Dumas, "Mémoires," III., 363.] [Footnote 3351: Napoleon, "Mémoires."] [Footnote 3352: Compare with the Brothers Grimm's fairytale: "The Fisherman and his Wife."] [Footnote 3353: Thiers, "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire," V. III., p. 210.] [Footnote 3354: Thiers, ibid., p.195 (October 1806). Napoleon, in one of his bulletins, had mentioned Murat's cavalry alone, omitting to mention the infantry of Lannes, which behaved as well. Lannes, disappointed, did not dare read this bulletin to his men, and spoke to the emperor about it. 'What reward can they look for if they don't find their names published by the hundred-tongued voice of Fame which is under your control!" Napoleon replies: "You and your men are children--glory enough for all!... One of these days your turn will come in the bulletins of the grand army." Lannes reads this to his troops on the great square of Stettin and it is received with outbursts of enthusiasm.] [Footnote 3355: Madame de Rémusat. III., 129.] [Footnote 3356: "The Revolution," pp. 356-358. (Laff. I. pp. 825-826.)--Marmont, "Mémoires," I. 122. (Letter to his mother, January 12, 1795.) "Behold your son zealously fulfilling his duties, deserving of his country and serving the republic.... We should not be worthy of liberty if we did nothing to obtain it."]