-179.)]

[Footnote 3324: They called themselves exclusives under the
Directory.--Cf. "The Revolution, II.", 23, 187, 196, 245, 297-303,
340-351, 354; book III., ch, 2 and 3, and book IV. (Ed. Laff. I.
pp. 582, 701, pp. 709-710, 745, 782-787, 821-823 and in Vol. II. pp.
131-167, pp. 167-215 and pp 311-357.)]

[Footnote 3325: The declaration of Human Rights in 1789 stated that:
"art. 1st, Sec. 5. Tous les citoyens sont egalement admissible aux emplois
publics. Les peuples ne connaissent d'autres motifs de preference, dans
elections, que les vertus et les talents." Virtue in French is virtue in
English while talent in French must be translated as being both talent
and skill. (SR.)]

[Footnote 3326: Madame de Remusat, passim.--Roederer, III., 538 (January
1809). (Words of Napoleon) "I took a few of the old court into my
household. They remained two years without speaking to me and six
months without seeing me... I don't like them--they are no good for
anything--their conversation is disagreeable to me."]

[Footnote 3327: Napoleon, "Memoires."]

[Footnote 3328: Roederer, "Memoires."]

[Footnote 3329: Taine uses the French expression "esprit" which might
both mean spirit, wit, mind or sense.]

[Footnote 3330: Roederer, "Memoires, "III., 281. "Men, under his
government, who had hitherto been considered incapable are made useful;
men hitherto considered distinguished found themselves mixed in with
the crowd; men hitherto regarded as the pillars of the State found
themselves useless ... An ass or a knave need never be ambitious to
approach Bonaparte, they will make nothing out of him."]

[Footnote 3331: Fievee, "Correspondance," III., 33.--Roederer, III.,
381.]

[Footnote 3332: Beugnot, "Memoires," II., 372.]

[Footnote 3333: Lefebvre, a former sergeant in the French guards, who
became marshal of the empire and Duc de Dantzig, with 150,000 francs a
year, received the visit of a comrade who, instead of having mounted the
ladder as he had done, had remained at the bottom of it. The marshal,
a fine fellow, welcomed his comrade heartily, and showed him over
his hotel. The visitor's face gradually grew somber, and bitter words
escaped from his lips; he often murmured, "Ah, how lucky you are!"--At
last, the marshal, impatient, said to him, "Well, I will make all this
over to you on one condition."--"What is it?"--"You must go down into
the court. I will post two grenadiers at the window with their guns,
and they shall fir