Footnotes

Transcriber’s Note

Certain conventions of the text have been modified. For instance, a series of dots (....) were employed where a name was elided. These have been replaced with long dashes (———) in order to avoid awkward line breaks.

Given the publication date, spelling has been generally allowed to stand as printed. But errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here.

There were a number of instances in the text where quoted words were missing either an opening or closing quotation mark. The proper placement is not always obvious, but the most plausible choice has been made. The paragraph beginning at the foot of p. 294 was particularly obscure and has been left to the reader to decipher.

The issues tabulated below should be noted, along with the resolutions. The references below are to the page and line in the original.

9.26 the glory and prosperity of their [‘/,] Inverted.

9.40 my establis[h]ment on the throne Added.

21.32 you were attending the birth of a cob[b]ler’s son. Added.

30.13 they had been greatly deceived on [t]his point. Added.

36.33 leading in very different d[i]rections. Added.

45.40 [“]I shall keep this and give you mine Added.

55.15 We wanted all this, and, ther[e]fore], in spite of Added.

55.17 plunged into confusion and t[mulu/umul]t Transposed.

55.36 and said, [“]You see his best friends Added.

62.21 the leading star of the nations....[”] Added.

63.4 said the Emperor, “[h]e decided the fate of France Added.

67.17 he did not spare him[.] Added.

68.19 “Sire,” said he at length, [“]a circumstance occurred to me Added.

80.31 "Art. V.[—]His Majesty the King Added.

89.7 an aide-de-camp is the best man that can be chosen[.] Added.

90.20 [“/‘]You will see that they will hold Replaced.

90.22 detained me to-day.[’]” Added.

101.13 Abb[e/é] de Pradt," continued the Emperor Replaced.

105.33 [“]Talleyrand, perhaps, might have done this: Added.

106.16 How many arra[n]gements should I not have proposed! Added.

108.20 [“]If all this be attributed Added.

120.30 It can be proved [t]hat this was merely the result Restored.

131.11 Here I committed an error,[”] said the Emperor, Added.

131.12 [“]which the more unpardonable Added.

133.28 [“/‘]We are placing,[”/’] Replaced

133.29 said they, [“/‘]an Italian Replaced.

133.31 on the Gauls.[’”] Added.

136.10 I placed one [one] of my brothers at their head Removed.

137.25 the period in which he flourished.[”] Added.

149.23 [“/‘]You had better have taken his life, I should Replaced.

149.26 me to console him in his misery.[’] Added.

167.38 ‘M. L[a/e] Sage,’ said he, Replaced.

168.4 a considerable time afterwar[d]s Added.

172.41 [“]There have been published Added.

174.27 two millions[,] worth of copies Removed.

180.28 till half-past eight o’clock[,/.] Replaced.

199.16 [“]I was provoked to the utmost extreme Added.

226.2 the Duke [D/d]’Enghien, Replaced.

231.19 on the part of the First Co[u]nsul to M. de Chateaubriand Removed.

241.10 your duties, submission, and dependance, &c.[”] Added.

267.37 [“]Two of the generals, Added.

270.22 [“]But this proved for me," said the Emperor Added.

276.30 who amused himself with calcu[l]ating Added.

281.15 complete liberty of universal exchange.[”] Added.

285.24 Brissot, Condorcet, Vergn[i]aud>, Gaudet Added.

288.1 All thos[e], in the higher classes of society Added.

300.38 acts of vileness have reduced France[’] in the eyes Removed.

303.38 the corps [d]’armée Added.

315.22 said[,] “I found it a very difficult thing Added.

316.8 “Six, Sire.” [“]How the plague can that be?” Added.

317.7 “Well,[”] said he Added.

317.13 I can bet[t]er employ the leisure Added.

318.4 the Emperor’s place on an eleva[va]tion of one or two steps. Removed.

326.3 a discussion once arose respec[t]ing the plan of a decree Added.

334.29 19th.—To[ /-]day the Northumberland sailed Added.

354.5 in all the instruments and access[a/o]ries of war. Replaced.

382.21 [“]That is not the matter;” Added.

385.6 he had chosen, in Cambac[èré/érè]s and Lebrun, Transposed.

387.16 of this blockade of Madame Bert[r]and Added.

397.26 [“]However,” said the Emperor Removed.