Note 8 — Chapter I

‘Je jurai dès lors qu’ils me la paieraient, que je les mettrais hors d’état de me nuire,’ said Napoleon to De Pradt, eighteen months later (Mémoires sur la Révolution d’Espagne, p. 16). The archbishop’s story is amply borne out by the repeated allusions to this unhappy proclamation in Napoleon’s official justification of his conduct in Spain. The Spanish ambassador at Berlin, Don Benito Pardo, was told by Napoleon at the time that he had forgiven the Proclamation, but could not forget it.