[A] Quelques Mot sur Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte; Œuvres de Napoleon III., tome ii. p. 452.
[B] Napoleon's younger brother, father of Napoleon III.
[C] Œuvres de Napoleon III., tome deuxiÈme, p. 451.
[D] 9th Thermidor, 28th of July, 1794. This was the date of the overthrow of Robespierre, and of the termination of the Reign of Terror. The enormous atrocities perpetrated under the name of the Republic had excited general distrust of republican institutions.
[E] 13th Vendemiaire, 5th of October, 1795, when Napoleon quelled the insurgent sections.
[F] 18th Fructidor, 4th of September, 1797. On this day the majority of the French Directory overthrew the minority, who were in favor of monarchical institutions. Sixty-three Deputies were banished for conspiring to introduce monarchy. Both councils renewed their oath of hatred against royalty.
[H] "I hold it for certain that in 1802 the Concordat was, on the part of Napoleon, an act of superior intelligence, much more than of a despotic spirit, and for the Christian religion in France an event as salutary as it was necessary. After the anarchy and the revolutionary orgies, the solemn recognition of Christianity by the State could alone give satisfaction to public sentiment, and assure to the Christian influence the dignity and the stability which it was needful that it should recover."—Meditations sur l'État Actuel de la Religion ChrÉtienne, par M. Guizot, p. 5.
[I] This daughter subsequently married her cousin, the brother of the Emperor Napoleon III., the second son of Louis Bonaparte. He died at an early age, in a campaign for the liberation of Italy.
"CondÉ! what a name! the universe reveres it; To this country it is ever dear; Mars honors it during war, And Minerva during peace."
[L] ZÉnaÏde and Lolotte (Charlotte), the two daughters of Joseph.
[M] "The entrance of Joseph to Cosenza, the capital of hither Calabria, on the 11th of April, was as a national fÊte. Guards of honor, chosen from among the most distinguished families, all the clergy, all the population were at the gates to receive him. He was accompanied into the city with shouts of joy, the streets being ornamented with triumphal arches. One would have thought that he was a sovereign returning after a long absence to the midst of a people by whom he was idolized."—MÉmoires et Correspondence Politique et Militaire, du Roi Joseph, p. 127.
[X] EncyclopÆdia Americana, article Joseph Bonaparte.
[Y] Wellington to Officers commanding Divisions and Brigades, ix. 574, 575.
[Z] King Joseph, writing to Clarke, under date of July 6, 1813, says: "Our army at Vittoria was but thirty-five thousand. That fact can not be contested. The enemy had certainly seventy thousand combatants. I can not be deceived when I say that his force was double of ours."
[AA] Manifeste par la Junte Constitutionale, et les habitans de St. Sebastien.
[AB] "I thanked them for their generous offer, but preferred to charge with that difficult commission M. Boisneau, whose patriotism and personal attachment to Napoleon I had known at the siege of Toulon. You know with what success he fulfilled his commission."—MÉmoires du Roi Joseph, tome dixiÈme, p. 342.
[AC] The Emperor was very desirous that his correspondence with the allied sovereigns should be published. He wrote to Joseph from Saint Helena to secure their publication in the United States if possible. "It will be the best response," he said, "to all the calumnies which have been uttered against me." During Joseph's sojourn in England, he learned from Dr. O'Meara that the autograph originals of these letters addressed by Napoleon to the sovereigns had been offered for sale in London in the year 1822; that they had been in the hands of Mr. Murray, a well-known publisher; that the letters relating to Russia had been purchased by a diplomatic agent of that power for ten thousand pounds sterling. There was no longer any hope of obtaining them, since they were in the hands of those interested in having them destroyed.—MÉmoires et Correspondence, Politique et Militaire du Roi Joseph, tome dixiÈme, n. 231.
[AD] Quelque Mot sur Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, par Napoleon III.
[AE] The Duke of Reichstadt, son of the Emperor, then thirteen years of age, living at Vienna, in the Court of the Emperor of Austria, his grandfather. He died of consumption in July, 1832.
[AF] Œuvres de Napoleon III., tome deuxiÈme, p. 439.
[AJ] Œuvres de Napoleon III. tome deuxiÈme, p. 441.
[AK] Charles X. abdicated in favor of his grandson, the Duke of Bordeaux, a child seven or eight years old. Should that child die, the Duke of Orleans would be the legitimate Bourbon candidate for the throne.
[AL] The Jacobins wished all whom they termed aristocrats guillotined or expelled from France.
[AM] Œuvres de Napoleon III., tome deuxiÈme, p. 449.
[AN] For a short time after the death of his elder brother, Louis Napoleon, in accordance with the understood wish of the Emperor, adopted the signature of Napoleon Louis. Soon, however, he again resumed his original name.
