as July 15th, as the
14th was Sunday. Augereau and about sixty officers, "bad fellows" who
disliked the mass, refused to go into the chapel and remained outside in
the court."]

[Footnote 3346: Several generals, Lecourbe, Souham, etc., were excluded
as being too republican or suspect and hostile. Lemercier, Ducis,
Delille, and Lafayette refused. Admiral Truguet, through pique and
discontent, had at first declined the grade of grand-officer, but
finally changed his mind and became at first commander and then
grand-officer.]

[Footnote 3347: "Les Cahiers du capitaine Coignet," passim and pp. 95,
145. "When the ceremony was over, handsome women who could get at me to
examine my cross, asked me if they might give me a kiss."--At the Palais
Royal the proprietor of a cafe says to him: "Order whatever you want,
the Legion of Honor is welcome to anything."]

[Footnote 3348: Mazas, ibid., p. 413.--Edmond Blanc, "Napoleon, ses
institutions civiles et administratives," p. 279.--The number of
decorated, at first, was to be 6,000. In 1806, the emperor had nominated
14,500, and taking his entire reign, until his fall, about 48,000. The
real force of legionaries, however, then living does not surpass at this
time 30,000, of which only 1,200 are in civil careers. At the present
time, December 1, 1888 (documents furnished by the records of the Legion
d'honneur), there are 52.915 decorated persons, of which 31,757 are
soldiers and 21,158 civilians. Under the empire there was in all 1 cross
to every 750 Frenchmen; at that time, out of 50 crosses there were 2 for
civil services, while in our day there are nearly 20. (QUID informs us
that on 30-11-1994 the strength amounted to 207,390 persons. SR.)]

[Footnote 3349: Edmond Blanc, ibid., 276-299, 325 and 326. (List of
titles of prince and duke conferred by the emperor, and of gifts of
100,000 francs rental or of above that sum.)]

[Footnote 3350: Mathieu Dumas, "Memoires," III., 363.]

[Footnote 3351: Napoleon, "Memoires."]

[Footnote 3352: Compare with the Brothers Grimm's fairytale: "The
Fisherman and his Wife."]

[Footnote 3353: Thiers, "Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire," V. III.,
p. 210.]

[Footnote 3354: Thiers, ibid., p.195 (October 1806). Napoleon, in one of
his bulletins, had mentioned Murat's cavalry alone, omitting to mention
the infantry of Lannes, which behaved as well. Lannes, disappointed, did
not dare read this bulletin to his men, and spoke to the emperor about