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[Footnote 1268: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.-,
I., 521. Details of the manufacture of counterfeit money, by order of
Savary, in an isolated building on the plain of Montrouge.--Metternich,
II., 358. (Words of Napoleon to M. de Metternich): "I had 300 millions
of banknotes of the Bank of Vienna all ready and was going to flood
you with them." Ibid., Correspondence of M. de Metternich with M. de
Champagny on this subject (June, 1810).]
[Footnote 1269: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris
1893.--Vol. II. p. 196.]
[Footnote 1270: Madame de Rémusat, II., 335.]
[Footnote 1271: Madame de Rémusat, I., 231.]
[Footnote 1272: Ibid., 335.]
[Footnote 1273: M. de Metternich, I., 284. "One of those to whom he
seemed the most attached was Duroc. 'He loves me the same as a dog loves
his master,' is the phrase he made use of in speaking of him to me. He
compared Berthier's sentiment for his person to that of a child's nurse.
Far from being opposed to his theory of the motives influencing men
these sentiments were its natural consequence whenever he came across
sentiments to which he could not apply the theory of calculation based
on cold interest, he sought the cause of it in a kind of instinct."]
[Footnote 1274: Beugnot, "Mémoires," II., 59.]
[Footnote 1275: "Mémorial." "If I had returned victorious from Moscow,
I would have brought the Pope not to regret temporal power: I would have
converted him into an idol... I would have directed the religious world
as well as the political world... My councils would have represented
Christianity, and the Pope would have only been president of them."]
[Footnote 1276: De Ségur, III., 312. (In Spain, 1809.)]
[Footnote 1277: "Mémoires du Prince Eugène." (Letters of Napoleon,
August, 1806.)]
[Footnote 1278: Letter of Napoleon to Fouché, March 3, 1810. (Left out
in the "Correspondance de Napoléon I.," and published by M. Thiers in
"Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire," XII., p. 115.)]
[Footnote 1279: De Ségur, III., 459.]
[Footnote 1280: Words of Napoleon to Marmont, who, after three months in
the hospital, returns to him in Spain with a broken arm and his hand in
a black sling: "You hold on to that rag then?" Sainte-Beuve, who loves
the truth as it really is, quotes the words as they came, which Marmont
dared not reproduce. (Causeries du Lundi, VI., 16.)--"Souvenirs",
by Pasquier, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893: "M. de Champagny having been
dismissed and replaced, a courageous friend defended him and insisted on
his merit: "You are right," said the Emperor, "he had some when I took
him; but by cramming him too full, I have made him stupid."]
[Footnote 1281: Beugnot, I., 456, 464]
[Footnote 1282: Mme. de Rémusat, II., 272.]
[Footnote 1283: M. de Champagny, "Souvenirs," 117.]
[Footnote 1284: Madame de Rémusat, I., 125.]
[Footnote 1285: De Ségur, III., 456.]
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