ions of these colleges."]

[Footnote 4135: Decree of Thermidor 4, year X.]

[Footnote 4136: Law of Pluviose 28, year VIII.]

[Footnote 4137: "Proces-verbaux des conseils generaux" of the years
VIII and X. (The second series drawn up after those propounded by the
minister Chaptal, is much more complete and furnishes an historical
document of the highest importance.)]

[Footnote 4138: "Statistiques des prefets" (from the years IX to XIII,
about 40 volumes).]

[Footnote 4139: Beugnot, "Memoires," I., 363.]

[Footnote 4140: Faber, ibid., 127.--Cf. Charlotte de Sohr, "Napoleon en
1811" (details and anecdotes on Napoleon's journey through Belgium and
Holland).]

[Footnote 4141: Beugnot, I., 380, 384. "He struck the good Germans dumb
with admiration, unable to comprehend how it was that their interests
had become so familiar to him and with what superiority he treated
them."]

[Footnote 4142: Beugnot, ibid., I., 395. Everywhere, on the Emperor's
passage (1811), the impression experienced was a kind of shock as at the
sight of a wonderful apparition.]

[Footnote 4143: Thiers, "Histoire du Consulat et l'Empire," XVI., 246
(January, 1813). "A word to the prefect, who transmitted this to one of
the municipal councilors of his town, was enough to insure an offer from
some large town and have this imitated throughout the empire. Napoleon
had an idea that he could get towns and cantons to offer him troops of
horse, armed and equipped."--In fact, this offer was voted with shouts
by the Paris municipal council and, through contagion, in the provinces.
As to voting this freely it suffices to remark how the annexed towns
voted, which, six months later, are to rebel. Their offers are not
the least. For instance, Amsterdam offers 100 horsemen, Hamburg 100,
Rotterdam 50, the Hague 40, Leyden 24, Utrecht 20, Dusseldorf 12.--The
horsemen furnished are men enlisted for money; 16,000 are obtained, and
the sum voted suffices to purchase additionally 22,000 horses and 22,000
equipments.--To obtain this money, the prefect himself apportions the
requisite sum among those in his department who pay the most taxes,
at the rate of from 600 to 1000 francs per head. On these arbitrary
requisitions and a great many others, either in money or in produce, and
on the sentiments of the farmers and landed proprietors in the South,
especially after 1813, cf. the "Memoires de M. Villele," vol. I.,
passim.]

[Footnote 4144: Comte Joseph d'Estourmel,