Note 239 — BOOK IV
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
The Nain jaune was a satirical Bonapartist journal, inspired by the circle of the ex-Queen Hortense, which adopted a guise of extreme Royalism. The number for the 28th of February 1815 contains a letter from a correspondent who says:
"I have worn out ten goose-quills in writing to you, without receiving a reply; perhaps I shall be luckier if I try a duck-quill" (plume de cane).
On the next day, the 1st of March, Napoleon landed at Cannes on his return from Elba.—B.