ozere, ibid., p.272.]

[Footnote 3134: De Puymaigre, ibid., passim.--Alexandrine des
Echerolles, "Une famille noble pendant la Terreur," pp.328, 402, 408.--I
add to published documents personal souvenirs and family narrations.]

[Footnote 3135: Duc de Rovigo, "Memoires," IV., 399. (On the provincial
noblesse which had emigrated and returned.) "The First Consul quietly
gave orders that none of the applications made by the large number
of those who asked for minor situations in various branches of the
administration should be rejected on account of emigration."]

[Footnote 3136: M. de Vitrolles, "Memoires."--M. d'Haussonville, "Ma
jeunesse," p. 60: "One morning, my father learns that he has been
appointed chamberlain, with a certain number of other persons belonging
to the greatest families of the faubourg Saint-Germain."]

[Footnote 3137: Madame de Remusat, "Memoires," II., 312, 315 and
following pages, 373.--Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la
revolution francaise," 4th part, ch IV.]

[Footnote 3138: Roederer, III., 459. (Speech by Napoleon, December 30,
1802.)--"Very well, I do protect the nobles of France; but they must
see that they need protection.... I give places to many of them;
I restore them to public distinction and even to the honors of
the drawing-room; but they feel that it is alone through my good
will.--Ibid., III., 558 (January 1809): "I repent daily of a mistake
I have made in my government; the most serious one I ever made, and
I perceive its bad effects every day. It was the giving back to the
emigres the totality of their possessions. I ought to have massed them
in common and given each one simply the chance of an income of 6000
francs. As soon as I saw my mistake I withdrew from thirty to forty
millions of forests; but far too many are still in the hands of a great
number of them."--We here see the attitude he would impose on them, that
of clients and grateful pensioners. They do not stand in this attitude.
(Roederer, III., 472. Report on the Senatorerie of Caen, 1803.)--"The
returned emigres are not friendly nor even satisfied; their enjoyment
of what they have recovered is less than their indignation at what they
have lost. They speak of the amnesty without gratitude, and as only
partial justice.... In other respects they appear submissive."]

[Footnote 3139: Duc de Rovigo1 "Memoires." V., 297. Towards the end,
large numbers of the young nobles went into the army. "In 1812, there,
was no