Note 528 — Chapter I

‘La capitulation, n’ayant pas été tenue par les habitants de Madrid, est nulle,’ Napoleon to Belliard, Dec. 5 (Nap. Corresp., 14,534). He scolds Belliard for having allowed the document to be printed and placarded on the walls. Every copy was to be torn down at once. In what respect the Spaniards had broken the treaty he does not state. He may have referred to the evasion of Castelar’s troops.