"Souvenirs de France et
d'Italie," 240. The general council of Rouen was the first to suggest the
vote for guards of honor. Assembled spontaneously (meetings are always
spontaneous), its members pass an enthusiastic address. "The example was
found to be excellent; the address was published in the Moniteur, and
sent to all the prefects.... The councils were obliged to meet, which
generously disposed of other people's children, and very worthy persons,
myself first of all, thought that they might join in this shameful
purpose, to such an extent had imperial fanaticism fascinated them and
perverted consciences!"]

[Footnote 4145: Archives nationales (state of accounts of the prefects
and reports of the general police commissioners, F7, 5014 and following
records.--Reports of senators on their senatoreries, AF, IV., 1051, and
following records).--These papers disclose at different dates the state
of minds and of things in the provinces. Of all these reports, that of
Roederer on the senatorerie of Caen is the most instructive, and gives
the most details on the three departments composing it. (Printed in his
"aeuvres completes," vol. III.)]

[Footnote 4146: The reader will find in the Archives nationales, the
fullest and most precise information concerning local administration
and the sentiments of the different classes of society, in the
correspondence of the prefects of the first Restoration, of the hundred
days, and of the second Restoration from 1814 to 1823 (Cf.
especially those of Haute-Garonne, the Rhine, Cote d'Or, Ain, Loiret,
Indre-et-Loire, Indre, Loire-Inferieure and Aisne.) The letters of
several prefects, M. de Chabroe, M. de Tocqueville, M. de Remusat, M. de
Barante, are often worth publishing; occasionally, the minister of the
interior has noted with a pencil in the margin, "To be shown to the
King."]

[Footnote 4147: M. de Villele, ibid., I., 248.]

[Footnote 4148: Rocquam, "l'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire," reports
of the councilors of state sent on missions, p.40.]

[Footnote 4149: De Feville, "La France economique," 248 and 249.]

[Footnote 4150: Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil
d'Etat," P. 277 (Session of March 15, 1806).--Decree of March 16, 1806,
and of September 15, 1807.]

[Footnote 4151: Ibid., 276. "To those who objected that a tax could only
be made according to law, Napoleon replied that it was not a tax, since
there were no other taxes than those which the law estab