[Footnote 6248: Reading this Lenin and others like him undoubtedly would agree with Napoleon and therefore liberally fund plans to place agents and controllers in all the Universities in the World hence ensuring politically correct attitudes. (SR.)] [Footnote 6249: Merlet, ibid. (According to the papers of M. de Fontanes, II. 258.)] [Footnote 6250: Id., Ibid. "Care must be taken to avoid all reaction in speaking of the Revolution. No man could oppose it. Blame belongs neither to those who have perished nor to those who survived it. It was not in any individual might to change the elements and foresee events born out of the nature of things."] [Footnote 6251: Villemain, Ibid., I., 145. (Words of M. de Narbonne on leaving Napoleon after several interviews with him in 1812.) "The Emperor, so powerful, 50 victorious is disturbed by only one thing in this world and that is by people who talk, and, in default of these, by those who think. And yet he seems to like them or, at least, cannot do without them."] [Footnote 6252: Welschinger, ibid., p.30. (Session of the Council of State, Dec.12, 1809)] [Footnote 6253: Welschinger, ibid., pp.31, 33, 175, 190. (Decree of Feb.5, 1810.)--"Revue Critique," Sep. 1870. (Weekly bulletin of the general direction of publicauons for the last three months of 1810 and the first three months of 1814, published by Charles Thursot.)] [Footnote 6254: Collection of laws and decrees, vol. XII., p.170. "When the censors shall have examined a work and allowed the publication of it, the publishers shall be authorized to have it printed. But the minister of the police shall still have the right to suppress it entirely if he thinks proper."--Welschinger, ibid., pp. 346-374.] [Footnote 6255: Welschinger, ibid., pp. 173, 175.] [Footnote 6256: Id., ibid., pp. 223, 231, 233. (The copy of "Athalie" with the erasures of the police still exists in the prompter's library of the Théâtre Français.)--Id., ibid., p 244. (Letter of the secretary-general of the police to the weekly managers of the Théâtre Français, Feb. 1, 1809, In relation to the "Mort d'Hector," by Luce de Lancival.) "Messieurs, His Excellency, the minister-senator, has expressly charged me to request the suppression of the following lines on the stage--'Hector': Déposez un moment ce fer toujours vainqueur, Cher Hector, et craignez de laisser le bonheur."] [Footnote 6257: Welschinger, ibid., p. 13. (Act of Jan. 17, 1800.)--117, 118. (Acts of Feb. 18, 1811, and Sep. 17, 1813.)--119, 129. (No indemnity for legitimate owners. The decree of confiscation states in principle that the ownership of journals can become property only by virtue of an express concession made by the sovereign, that this concession was not made to the actual founders and proprietors and that their claim is null.)] [Footnote 6258: Id.. ibid., pp.196, 201.] [Footnote 6259: "Revue critique," ibid., pp.142, 146, 149.] [Footnote 6260: Welschinger, ibid., p. 251.]