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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...though rather narrow; his character was sincere and firm to a certain extent, but not sufficiently so to urge him to make every sacrifice. This was the misfortune of his life, and this misfortune weighs upon his memory. On our return to Dresden, my colleagues and I all had orders to return to France immediately. I took leave of M. de Narbonne, never to see him again. He had no. presentiment of this, nor had I. I cannot say whether the command of Torgau, which was entrusted to him, was intended as a favour or a disgrace; at any rate, he succumbed there, if not in the full vigour of his age, yet certainty in the fulness of all his faculties. No general officer, young soldier, or veteran, supported the retreat from Moscow with more courage and gaiety than this nobleman born and reared at the Court of Louis XV. In him the Emperor had a councillor who was both more able and more faithful than M. de Talleyrand and more far-sighted and determined than M. de Caulaincourt. For his own sake, it is not to be regretted that he was not alive at the fall of the Empire; he would neither have betrayed it in its reverses, nor deserted it in its last moments, and his position, at the restoration of the Bourbons, would have been very painful and unpleasant. No one knew better than I did what inexhaustible kindness, natural generosity and sincere affection, or what clearness and strength of mind, he possessed under the outward charms and light-heartedness of a man of the world, and no one regretted him more bitterly than I did. On my way back to France I met, at Hanau, two officers attached to the Emperors household, M, de Mesgrigny, one of his equerries, and M. de Bausset, the sous-prefet of the palace, and we had a more jovial supper together than we...