Imperial France -- The Aristocracy -- The Vassal Sovereigns -- Suppression of the Tribunate -- The Right of Entail -- Evasions of Law -- The New Nobility -- Titles and Emoluments -- Style in the First Empire -- Theory of the University -- Its Establishment -- The Lycees -- Effects of the System -- Regulation of the Court -- The Emperor's Moods -- Matrimonial Alliances with Royalty -- Gloom at Court -- Decline of Talleyrand's Influence -- His New Role. [Sidenote: 1807-08] It was not long before the people of Paris and of all France were in the best possible humor; they were busy, they were clothed, they were fed, they were making and saving money. With every hour grew the feeling that their unity and strength were embodied in the Emperor. Mme. de Remusat was tired of his ill-breeding: it shocked her to observe his coarse familiarity, to see him sit on a favorite's knee, or twist a bystander's ear till it was afire; to hear him sow dissension among families by coarse innuendo, and to see him crush society that he might rule it. But such things would not have shocked the masses of plain burgher Frenchmen at all. When the querulous lady opened her troubles to the sympathetic Talleyrand, and bemoaned the sad fate which kept her at the imperial court to gain a living, his reply was not consoling. As time passed, the gulf between the ruler and his venal but soft-spoken minister had been widening, and the Prince of Benevento had oftentimes to hear taunts and reproaches in scenes of such violence as were unsuspected even by the complaining lady in waiting. But nevertheless Talleyrand replied to her that Napoleon still stood for the unity of France, and it was both his and her duty to endure and support their monarch.