Note 98 — Chapter LXXXIV
Reading edition
"Soult did not betray Louis, nor was he privy to my return and landing in France. For some days, he thought that I was mad, and that I must certainly be lost. Notwithstanding this, appearances were so much against him, and without intending it, his acts turned out to be so favourable to my projects, that, were I on his jury, and ignorant of what I know, I should condemn him for having betrayed Louis. But he really was not privy to it."—Napoleon, Las Cases, tom. i., p. 343; O'Meara, vol. i., p. 386.