Note 123 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND (continued 2)

Mme. de Staël mentions Bonaparte’s visit to her father in her Considérations sur la Révolution française, but does not allude to having seen him herself. Bourrienne quotes Napoleon’s opinion of her: ‘I do not like women who make men of themselves, any more than I like effeminate men.... I cannot endure that woman: for one reason, that I cannot bear women who make a set at me, and God knows how often she has tried to cajole me!’