September 2d. (To Bertrand.) Write to Princess Pauline to say that I have received all the letters from Naples; tell her that I am annoyed at having had letters sent me through Stahremberg unsealed, as though I were a prisoner and he my gaoler; I think this way of doing things is offensive and absurd, and insulting both to me and to them.

9th. I have received a most sentimental letter from the King of Naples; he declares that he has already written several times, but I doubt it. It appears that the French and Italian questions are disturbing him, and making him amiable.

20th. My wife no longer writes to me. My son is snatched away from me. No such barbarous act is recorded in modern times.

30th. The Congress of Vienna assembles.

October 10th. (To Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany.) Monsieur mon Frère et trés cher Oncle: Having received no news from my wife since the 10th of August, nor from my son for six months, I have intrusted this letter to Cavaliere Colonna. I beg Your Royal Highness to let me know whether I may send a letter to the Empress once a week, and receive in return her news and a letter from the Countess of Montesquiou, the governess of my son. I flatter myself that in spite of events that have so changed many persons, Your Royal Highness still retains some degree of friendship for me.

November 14th. Any news of the Congress? Do you think they have it in mind to exile me? I will never permit them to carry me off.

December 11th. (To Count Drouot.) Take great care

to have the discharges of the grenadiers who are leaving and who are good men, drawn up in their favour. You must state that the discharge is granted on the orders of General Drouot, because the situation of the families of these men demands their presence, and that it is with regret the battalion loses the services of such good soldiers. Their services, battles, and wounds shall be set out, in fact everything that can testify to my satisfaction with brave men who have given me so many marks of their devotion.

Have a proof of the discharge printed. Place my arms in the middle; strike out the expression Sovereign of Elba, which is ridiculous, and see that the form is known in the Guard, so that it may realize how it is honoured when my grenadiers get leave of absence.

January 1st, Elba:

1815

Well, old grumbler, are you getting tired of it? (No, sire, but it's not very exciting!)

You are wrong. You should take things as they come. It won't last forever!

2d. (To Drouot.) Order the Abeille to take in supplies for a week this evening. Eight sailors of the Guard are to go on board, so as to cruise to-morrow off Cape St. André and observe the movements of the French ships that appear to be cruising around the island. The captain in command of the Abeille will have an additional 100 francs a month until he can be given a larger ship. Get him a good glass if he hasn't one.

3d. (Note.) On Sunday there will be a ball in the large reception room. The invitations must cover the whole island, though they must not include more than 200 persons. There must be refreshments, but no ices because of the difficulty of getting them. The whole must not cost more than 1000 francs.

On Sunday the 15th the Academy might inaugurate its theatre and give a masked ball. On the 22d I may give another ball. On the 29th there might be a second masked ball at the theatre.

February 16th. (To General Drouot.) Order the brig into port to be careened and have its copper bottom overhauled, and its leaks stopped, and generally put

into seaworthy condition. Have it painted like the English brigs. I want it in the bay and ready, as I have said, by the 24th or 25th of this month.

Order M. Pons to charter two large-sized vessels for a month, brigs or xebecs of more than 90 tons.

18th. Drouot, all France regrets me and wants me. In a few days I shall leave the island.

24th. Ah! France! France!

26th. I am leaving the island of Elba.

Twenty-four hours before weighing anchor only Bertrand and Drouot knew the secret.

28th, at sea:

I shall reach Paris without firing a shot.
March 1st, Golfe Jouan:

(To the army.) Soldiers! we were not defeated! Soldiers! In my exile I have heard your voice. I have come to you through every obstacle, every danger. Your general, called to the throne by the voice of the people and raised on your bucklers, is back among you; come to him! Pluck off the colours that the nation has proscribed, and that, for twenty-five years, were the rallying point of all the enemies of France. Put on the tricolour cockade; you wore it in our great days. Here are the eagles you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylau, at Friedland, at Tudela, at Eckmühl, at Essling, at Wagram, at Smolensk, at the Moskowa, at Lützen, at Wurschen, at Montmirail! Do you believe that the little handful of Frenchmen who are so arrogant to-day can support their sight? They will return whence they came; there let them reign

as they pretend that they did reign these last nineteen

years.

Soldiers, rally around the standard of your chief! Victory will advance at the double! The Eagle, with the national colours, will fly from steeple to steeple to the towers of Notre Dame. Then will you be able to display your honourable scars. Then will you be able to claim the credit of your deeds, as the liberators of your country. In your old age, surrounded and honoured by your fellowcitizens, all will respectfully listen while you narrate your great deeds; you will be able to say with pride: "And I also was one of that Grand Army that twice entered the walls of Vienna, of Rome, of Berlin, of Madrid, of Moscow, and that cleansed Paris from the stain left on it by treason and the presence of the enemy!"

6th, Gap:

Citizens, I am deeply touched by your demonstrations. Your hopes will be fulfilled; the nation's cause will triumph once more. You are right to call me your Father; I live only for the honour and for the happiness of France. My return dispels all your anxieties, guarantees your property. To-day equality among all classes, and the rights you enjoyed for twenty-five years and that our fathers so longed for, become once more a part of your existence. 9th, Grenoble:

Citizens, when in my exile I learned all the misfortunes that weighed on the nation, that the rights of the people were trampled on, and that I was reproached for my inactivity, I lost not a moment, I embarked on a frail vessel, I crossed the sea amid the warships of various nations, I landed on the soil of the fatherland, and I thought