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+Project Gutenberg's The Napoleon of the People, by Honore de Balzac
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+Title: The Napoleon of the People
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+Author: Honore de Balzac
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+Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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+Release Date: Release Date: April, 2005  [EBook #7958]
+Posting Date: March 7, 2010
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE ***
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+Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny
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+THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
+
+
+By Honore De Balzac
+
+
+Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell.
+
+
+
+PREPARER'S NOTE
+
+The Napoleon of the People was originally published in Le Medicin de
+Campagne (The Country Doctor). It is a story told to a group of peasants
+by the character of Goguelat, an ex-soldier who served under Napoleon in
+an infantry regiment. It was later included in Folk-tales of Napoleon:
+Napoleonder from the Russian, a collection of stories by various
+authors. This translation is by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
+
+
+Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a French
+island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there, everything
+is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other from father to son
+for generations all about nothing at all--'tis a notion they have. To
+begin at the beginning, there was something extraordinary about the
+thing from the first; it occurred to his mother, who was the handsomest
+woman of her time, and a shrewd soul, to dedicate him to God, so that he
+should escape all the dangers of infancy and of his after life; for she
+had dreamed that the world was on fire on the day he was born. It was
+a prophecy! So she asked God to protect him, on condition that Napoleon
+should re-establish His holy religion, which had been thrown to the
+ground just then. That was the agreement; we shall see what came of it.
+
+Now, do you follow me carefully, and tell me whether what you are about
+to hear is natural.
+
+It is certain sure that only a man who had had imagination enough to
+make a mysterious compact would be capable of going further than anybody
+else, and of passing through volleys of grape-shot and showers of
+bullets which carried us off like flies, but which had a respect for his
+head. I myself had particular proof of that at Eylau. I see him yet;
+he climbs a hillock, takes his field-glass, looks along our lines, and
+says, "That is going on all right." One of the deep fellows, with a
+bunch of feathers in his cap, used to plague him a good deal from all
+accounts, following him about everywhere, even when he was getting
+his meals. This fellow wants to do something clever, so as soon as the
+Emperor goes away he takes his place. Oh! swept away in a moment! And
+this is the last of the bunch of feathers! You understand quite clearly
+that Napoleon had undertaken to keep his secret to himself. That is why
+those who accompanied him, and even his especial friends, used to drop
+like nuts: Duroc, Bessieres, Lannes--men as strong as bars of steel,
+which he cast into shape for his own ends. And here is a final proof
+that he was the child of God, created to be the soldier's father; for
+no one ever saw him as a lieutenant or a captain. He is a
+commandant straight off! Ah! yes, indeed! He did not look more than
+four-and-twenty, but he was an old general ever since the taking of
+Toulon, when he made a beginning by showing the rest that they knew
+nothing about handling cannon. Next thing he does, he tumbles upon us.
+A little slip of a general-in-chief of the army of Italy, which had
+neither bread nor ammunition nor shoes nor clothes--a wretched army as
+naked as a worm.
+
+"Friends," he said, "here we all are together. Now, get it well into
+your pates that in a fortnight's time from now you will be the victors,
+and dressed in new clothes; you shall all have greatcoats, strong
+gaiters, and famous pairs of shoes; but, my children, you will have to
+march on Milan to take them, where all these things are."
+
+So they marched. The French, crushed as flat as a pancake, held up their
+heads again. There were thirty thousand of us tatterdemalions against
+eighty thousand swaggerers of Germans--fine tall men and well equipped;
+I can see them yet. Then Napoleon, who was only Bonaparte in those days,
+breathed goodness knows what into us, and on we marched night and day.
+We rap their knuckles at Montenotte; we hurry on to thrash them at
+Rivoli, Lodi, Arcola, and Millesimo, and we never let them go. The army
+came to have a liking for winning battles. Then Napoleon hems them in on
+all sides, these German generals did not know where to hide themselves
+so as to have a little peace and comfort; he drubs them soundly, cribs
+ten thousand of their men at a time by surrounding them with fifteen
+hundred Frenchmen, whom he makes to spring up after his fashion, and at
+last he takes their cannon, victuals, money, ammunition, and everything
+they have that is worth taking; he pitches them into the water, beats
+them on the mountains, snaps at them in the air, gobbles them up on the
+earth, and thrashes them everywhere.
+
+There are the troops in full feather again! For, look you, the Emperor
+(who, for that matter, was a wit) soon sent for the inhabitant, and told
+him that he had come there to deliver him. Whereupon the civilian finds
+us free quarters and makes much of us, so do the women, who showed great
+discernment. To come to a final end; in Ventose '96, which was at that
+time what the month of March is now, we had been driven up into a corner
+of the _Pays des Marmottes_; but after the campaign, lo and behold! we
+were the masters of Italy, just as Napoleon had prophesied. And in the
+month of March following, in one year and in two campaigns, he brings
+us within sight of Vienna; we had made a clean sweep of them. We had
+gobbled down three armies one after another, and taken the conceit out
+of four Austrian generals; one of them, an old man who had white hair,
+had been roasted like a rat in the straw before Mantua. The kings were
+suing for mercy on their knees. Peace had been won. Could a mere mortal
+have done that? No. God helped him, that is certain. He distributed
+himself about like the five loaves in the Gospel, commanded on the
+battlefield all day, and drew up his plans at night. The sentries always
+saw him coming; he neither ate nor slept. Therefore, recognizing these
+prodigies, the soldier adopts him for his father. But, forward!
+
+The other folk there in Paris, seeing all this, say among themselves:
+
+"Here is a pilgrim who appears to take his instructions from Heaven
+above; he is uncommonly likely to lay a hand on France. We must let him
+loose on Asia or America, and that, perhaps, will keep him quiet."
+
+The same thing was decreed for him as for Jesus Christ; for, as a matter
+of fact, they give him orders to go on duty down in Egypt. See his
+resemblance to the Son of God! That is not all, though. He calls all his
+fire-eaters about him, all those into whom he had more particularly put
+the devil, and talks to them in this way:
+
+"My friends, for the time being they are giving us Egypt to stop our
+mouths. But we will swallow down Egypt in a brace of shakes, just as we
+swallowed Italy, and private soldiers shall be princes, and shall have
+broad lands of their own. Forward!"
+
+"Forward, lads!" cry the sergeants.
+
+So we come to Toulon on the way to Egypt. Whereupon the English put to
+sea with all their fleet. But when we are on board, Napoleon says to us:
+
+"They will not see us: and it is right and proper that you should know
+henceforward that your general has a star in the sky that guides us and
+watches over us!"
+
+So said, so done. As we sailed over the sea we took Malta, by way of
+an orange to quench his thirst for victory, for he was a man who
+must always be doing something. There we are in Egypt. Well and good.
+Different orders. The Egyptians, look you, are men who, ever since the
+world has been the world, have been in the habit of having giants to
+reign over them, and armies like swarms of ants; because it is a country
+full of genii and crocodiles, where they have built up pyramids as big
+as our mountains, the fancy took them to stow their kings under the
+pyramids, so as to keep them fresh, a thing which mightily pleases them
+all round out there. Whereupon, as we landed, the Little Corporal said
+to us:
+
+"My children, the country which you are about to conquer worships a lot
+of idols which you must respect, because the Frenchman ought to be
+on good terms with all the world, and fight people without giving
+annoyance. Get it well into your heads to let everything alone at first;
+for we shall have it all by and by! and forward!"
+
+So far so good. But all those people had heard a prophecy of Napoleon,
+under the name of _Kebir Bonaberdis_; a word which in our lingo means,
+"The Sultan fires a shot," and they feared him like the devil. So the
+Grand Turk, Asia, and Africa have recourse to magic, and they send a
+demon against us, named the Mahdi, who it was thought had come down from
+heaven on a white charger which, like its master was bullet-proof, and
+the pair of them lived on the air of that part of the world. There are
+people who have seen them, but for my part I cannot give you any certain
+informations about them. They were the divinities of Arabia and of the
+Mamelukes who wished their troopers to believe that the Mahdi had the
+power of preventing them from dying in battle. They gave out that he was
+an angel sent down to wage war on Napoleon, and to get back Solomon's
+seal, part of their paraphernalia which they pretended our general had
+stolen. You will readily understand that we made them cry peccavi all
+the same.
+
+Ah, just tell me now how they came to know about that compact of
+Napoleon's? Was that natural?
+
+They took it into their heads for certain that he commanded the genii,
+and that he went from place to place like a bird in the twinkling of an
+eye; and it is a fact that he was everywhere. At length it came about
+that he carried off a queen of theirs. She was the private property of
+a Mameluke, who, although he had several more of them, flatly refused to
+strike a bargain, though "the other" offered all his treasures for her
+and diamonds as big as pigeon's eggs. When things had come to that pass,
+they could not well be settled without a good deal of fighting; and
+there was fighting enough for everybody and no mistake about it.
+
+Then we are drawn up before Alexandria, and again at Gizeh, and before
+the Pyramids. We had to march over the sands and in the sun; people
+whose eyes dazzled used to see water that they could not drink and shade
+that made them fume. But we made short work of the Mamelukes as usual,
+and everything goes down before the voice of Napoleon, who seizes Upper
+and Lower Egypt and Arabia, far and wide, till we came to the capitals
+of kingdoms which no longer existed, where there were thousands and
+thousands of statues of all the devils in creation, all done to
+the life, and another curious thing too, any quantity of lizards. A
+confounded country where any one could have as many acres of land as he
+wished for as little as he pleased.
+
+While he was busy inland, where he meant to carry out some wonderful
+ideas of his, the English burn his fleet for him in Aboukir Bay, for
+they never could do enough to annoy us. But Napoleon, who was respected
+East and West, and called "My Son" by the Pope, and "My dear Father" by
+Mahomet's cousin, makes up his mind to have his revenge on England,
+and to take India in exchange for his fleet. He set out to lead us into
+Asia, by way of the Red Sea, through a country where there were palaces
+for halting-places, and nothing but gold and diamonds to pay the troops
+with, when the Mahdi comes to an understanding with the Plague, and
+sends it among us to make a break in our victories. Halt! Then every man
+files off to that parade from which no one comes back on his two feet.
+The dying soldier cannot take Acre, into which he forces an entrance
+three times with a warrior's impetuous enthusiasm; the Plague was too
+strong for us; there was not even time to say "Your servant, sir!" to
+the Plague. Every man was down with it. Napoleon alone was as fresh as a
+rose; the whole army saw him drinking in the Plague without it doing him
+any harm whatever.
+
+There now, my friends, was that natural, do you think?
+
+The Mamelukes, knowing that we were all on the sick-list, want to stop
+our road; but it was no use trying that nonsense with Napoleon. So he
+spoke to his familiars, who had tougher skins than the rest:
+
+"Go and clear the road for me."
+
+Junot, who was his devoted friend, and a first-class fighter, only takes
+a thousand men, and makes a clean sweep of the Pasha's army, which
+had the impudence to bar our way. Thereupon back we came to Cairo, our
+headquarters, and now for another story.
+
+Napoleon being out of the country, France allowed the people in Paris
+to worry the life out of her. They kept back the soldiers' pay and all
+their linen and clothing, left them to starve, and expected them to
+lay down law to the universe, without taking any further trouble in
+the matter. They were idiots of the kind that amuse themselves with
+chattering instead of setting themselves to knead the dough. So our
+armies were defeated, France could not keep her frontiers; The Man was
+not there. I say The Man, look you, because that was how they called
+him; but it was stuff and nonsense, for he had a star of his own and all
+his other peculiarities, it was the rest of us that were mere men. He
+hears this history of France after his famous battle of Aboukir,
+where with a single division he routed the grand army of the Turks,
+twenty-five thousand strong, and jostled more than half of them into the
+sea, rrrah! without losing more than three hundred of his own men. That
+was his last thunder-clap in Egypt. He said to himself, seeing that all
+was lost down there, "I know that I am the saviour of France, and to
+France I must go."
+
+But you must clearly understand that the army did not know of his
+departure; for if they had, they would have kept him there by force to
+make him Emperor of the East. So there we all are without him, and in
+low spirits, for he was the life of us. He leaves Kleber in command,
+a great watchdog who passed in his checks at Cairo, murdered by an
+Egyptian whom they put to death by spiking him with a bayonet, which
+is their way of guillotining people out there; but he suffered so much,
+that a soldier took pity on the scoundrel and handed his flask to him;
+and the Egyptian turned up his eyes then and there with all the pleasure
+in life. But there is not much fun for us about this little affair.
+Napoleon steps aboard of a little cockleshell, a mere nothing of a
+skiff, called the _Fortune_, and in the twinkling of an eye, and in the
+teeth of the English, who were blockading the place with vessels of the
+line and cruisers and everything that carries canvas, he lands in France
+for he always had the faculty of taking the sea at a stride. Was that
+natural? Bah! as soon as he landed at Frejus, it is as good as saying
+that he has set foot in Paris. Everybody there worships him; but he
+calls the Government together.
+
+"What have you done to my children, the soldiers?" he says to the
+lawyers. "You are a set of good-for-nothings who make fools of other
+people, and feather your own nests at the expense of France. It will not
+do. I speak in the name of every one who is discontented."
+
+Thereupon they want to put him off and to get rid of him; but not a bit
+of it! He locks them up in the barracks where they used to argufy and
+makes them jump out of the windows. Then he makes them follow in his
+train, and they all become as mute as fishes and supple as tobacco
+pouches. So he becomes Consul at a blow. He was not the man to doubt the
+existence of the Supreme Being; he kept his word with Providence, who
+had kept His promise in earnest; he sets up religion again, and gives
+back the churches, and they ring the bells for God and Napoleon. So
+every one is satisfied: _primo_ the priests with whom he allows no
+one to meddle; _segondo_, the merchant folk who carry on their trades
+without fear of the _rapiamus_ of the law that had pressed too heavily
+on them; _tertio_, the nobles; for people had fallen into an unfortunate
+habit of putting them to death, and he puts a stop to this.
+
+But there were enemies to be cleared out of the way, and he was not the
+one to go to sleep after mess; and his eyes, look you, traveled all over
+the world as if it had been a man's face. The next thing he did was
+to turn up in Italy; it was just as if he had put his head out of the
+window and the sight of him was enough; they gulp down the Austrians at
+Marengo like a whale swallowing gudgeons! _Haouf_! The French Victories
+blew their trumpets so loud that the whole world could hear the noise,
+and there was an end of it.
+
+"We will not keep on at this game any longer!" say the Germans.
+
+"That is enough of this sort of thing," say the others.
+
+Here is the upshot. Europe shows the white feather, England knuckles
+under, general peace all round, and kings and peoples pretending to
+embrace each other. While then and there the Emperor hits on the idea of
+the Legion of Honor. There's a fine thing if you like!
+
+He spoke to the whole army at Boulogne. "In France," so he said, "every
+man is brave. So the civilian who does gloriously shall be the soldier's
+sister, the soldier shall be his brother, and both shall stand together
+beneath the flag of honor."
+
+By the time that the rest of us who were away down there in Egypt had
+come back again, everything was changed. We had seen him last as a
+general, and in no time we find that he is Emperor! And when this was
+settled (and it may safely be said that every one was satisfied) there
+was a holy ceremony such as was never seen under the canopy of heaven.
+Faith, France gave herself to him, like a handsome girl to a lancer, and
+the Pope and all his cardinals in robes of red and gold come across the
+Alps on purpose to anoint him before the army and the people, who clap
+their hands.
+
+There is one thing that it would be very wrong to keep back from you.
+While he was in Egypt, in the desert not far away from Syria, _the Red
+Man_ had appeared to him on the mountain of Moses, in order to say,
+"Everything is going on well." Then again, on the eve of victory at
+Marengo, the Red Man springs to his feet in front of the Emperor for the
+second time, and says to him:
+
+"You shall see the world at your feet; you shall be Emperor of the
+French, King of Italy, master of Holland, ruler of Spain, Portugal, and
+the Illyrian Provinces, protector of Germany, saviour of Poland, first
+eagle of the Legion of Honor and all the rest of it."
+
+That Red Man, look you, was a notion of his own, who ran on errands and
+carried messages, so many people say, between him and his star. I myself
+have never believed that; but the Red Man is, undoubtedly, a fact.
+Napoleon himself spoke of the Red Man who lived up in the roof of the
+Tuileries, and who used to come to him, he said, in moments of trouble
+and difficulty. So on the night after his coronation Napoleon saw him
+for the third time, and they talked over a lot of things together.
+
+Then the Emperor goes straight to Milan to have himself crowned King of
+Italy, and then came the real triumph of the soldier. For every one
+who could write became an officer forthwith, and pensions and gifts of
+duchies poured down in showers. There were fortunes for the staff that
+never cost France a penny, and the Legion of Honor was as good as an
+annuity for the rank and file; I still draw my pension on the strength
+of it. In short, here were armies provided for in a way that had never
+been seen before! But the Emperor, who knew that he was to be Emperor
+over everybody, and not only over the army, bethinks himself of the
+bourgeois, and sets them to build fairy monuments in places that had
+been as bare as the back of my hand till then. Suppose, now, that you
+are coming out of Spain and on the way to Berlin; well, you would see
+triumphal arches, and in the sculpture upon them the common soldiers are
+done every bit as beautifully as the generals!
+
+In two or three years Napoleon fills his cellars with gold, makes
+bridges, palaces, roads, scholars, festivals, laws, fleets, and harbors;
+he spends millions on millions, ever so much, and ever so much more to
+it, so that I have heard it said that he could have paved the whole of
+France with five-franc pieces if the fancy had taken him; and all this
+without putting any taxes on you people here. So when he was comfortably
+seated on his throne, and so thoroughly the master of the situation,
+that all Europe was waiting for leave to do anything for him that he
+might happen to want; as he had four brothers and three sisters, he said
+to us, just as it might be by way of conversation, in the order of the
+day:
+
+"Children, is it fitting that your Emperor's relations should beg their
+bread? No; I want them all to be luminaries, like me in fact! Therefore,
+it is urgently necessary to conquer a kingdom for each one of them, so
+that the French nation may be masters everywhere, so that the Guard may
+make the whole earth tremble, and France may spit wherever she likes,
+and every nation shall say to her, as it is written on my coins, 'God
+protects you.'"
+
+"All right!" answers the army, "we will fish up kingdoms for you with
+the bayonet."
+
+Ah! there was no backing out of it, look you! If he had taken it into
+his head to conquer the moon, we should have had to put everything in
+train, pack our knapsacks, and scramble up; luckily, he had no wish for
+that excursion. The kings who were used to the comforts of a throne, of
+course, objected to be lugged off, so we had marching orders. We march,
+we get there, and the earth begins to shake to its centre again. What
+times they were for wearing out men and shoe-leather! And the hard
+knocks that they gave us! Only Frenchmen could have stood it. But you
+are not ignorant that a Frenchman is a born philosopher; he knows that
+he must die a little sooner or a litter later. So we used to die without
+a word, because we had the pleasure of watching the Emperor do _this_ on
+the maps.
+
+[Here the soldier swung quickly round on one foot, so as to trace a
+circle on the barn floor with the other.]
+
+"There, that shall be a kingdom," he used to say, and it was a kingdom.
+What fine times they were! Colonels became generals whilst you were
+looking at them, generals became marshals of France, and marshals became
+kings. There is one of them still left on his feet to keep Europe in
+mind of those days, Gascon though he may be, and a traitor to France
+that he might keep his crown; and he did not blush for his shame, for,
+after all, a crown, look you, is made of gold. The very sappers and
+miners who knew how to read became great nobles in the same way. And I
+who am telling you all this have seen in Paris eleven kings and a crowd
+of princes all round about Napoleon, like rays about the sun! Keep this
+well in your minds, that as every soldier stood a chance of having a
+throne of his own (provided he showed himself worthy of it), a corporal
+of the Guard was by way of being a sight to see, and they gaped at him
+as he went by; for every one came by his share after a victory, it
+was made perfectly clear in the bulletin. And what battles they were!
+Austerlitz, where the army was manoeuvred as if it had been a review;
+Eylau, where the Russians were drowned in a lake, just as if Napoleon
+had breathed on them and blown them in; Wagram, where the fighting was
+kept up for three whole days without flinching. In short, there were as
+many battles as there are saints in the calendar.
+
+Then it was made clear beyond a doubt that Napoleon bore the Sword
+of God in his scabbard. He had a regard for the soldier. He took the
+soldier for his child. He was anxious that you should have shoes,
+shirts, greatcoats, bread, and cartridges; but he kept up his majesty,
+too, for reigning was his own particular occupation. But, all the same,
+a sergeant, or even a common soldier, could go up to him and call him
+"Emperor," just as you might say "My good friend" to me at times. And he
+would give an answer to anything you put before him. He used to sleep
+on the snow just like the rest of us--in short, he looked almost like
+an ordinary man; but I who am telling you all these things have seen him
+myself with the grape-shot whizzing about his ears, no more put out by
+it than you are at this moment; never moving a limb, watching through
+his field-glass, always looking after his business; so we stood our
+ground likewise, as cool and calm as John the Baptist. I do not know
+how he did it; but whenever he spoke, a something in his words made
+our hearts burn within us; and just to let him see that we were his
+children, and that it was not in us to shirk or flinch, we used to walk
+just as usual right up to the sluts of cannon that were belching smoke
+and vomiting battalions of balls, and never a man would so much as say,
+"Look out!" It was a something that made dying men raise their heads to
+salute him and cry, "Long live the Emperor!"
+
+Was that natural? Would you have done this for a mere man?
+
+Thereupon, having fitted up all his family, and things having so turned
+out that the Empress Josephine (a good woman for all that) had no
+children, he was obliged to part company with her, although he loved her
+not a little. But he must have children, for reasons of State. All the
+crowned heads of Europe, when they heard of his difficulty, squabbled
+among themselves as to who should find him a wife. He married an
+Austrian princess, so they say, who was the daughter of the Caesars, a
+man of antiquity whom everybody talks about, not only in our country,
+where it is said that most things were his doing, but also all over
+Europe. And so certain sure is that, that I who am talking to you have
+been myself across the Danube, where I saw the ruins of a bridge built
+by that man; and it appeared that he was some connection of Napoleon's
+at Rome, for the Emperor claimed succession there for his son.
+
+So, after his wedding, which was a holiday for the whole world, and when
+they let the people off their taxes for ten years to come (though they
+had to pay them just the same after all, because the excisemen took no
+notice of the proclamation)--after his wedding, I say, his wife had a
+child who was King of Rome; a child was born a King while his father was
+alive, a thing that had never been seen in the world before! That day a
+balloon set out from Paris to carry the news to Rome, and went all the
+way in one day. There, now! Is there one of you who will stand me out
+that there was nothing supernatural in that? No, it was decreed on high.
+And the mischief take those who will not allow that it was wafted over
+by God Himself, so as to add to the honor and glory of France!
+
+But there was the Emperor of Russia, a friend of our Emperor's, who was
+put out because he had not married a Russian lady. So the Russian backs
+up our enemies the English; for there had always been something to
+prevent Napoleon from putting a spoke in their wheel. Clearly an end
+must be made of fowl of that feather. Napoleon is vexed, and he says to
+us:
+
+"Soldiers! You have been the masters of every capital in Europe, except
+Moscow, which is allied to England. So, in order to conquer London and
+India, which belongs to them in London, I find it absolutely necessary
+that we go to Moscow."
+
+Thereupon the greatest army that ever wore gaiters, and left its
+footprints all over the globe, is brought together, and drawn up with
+such peculiar cleverness, that the Emperor passed a million men in
+review, all in a single day.
+
+"Hourra!" cry the Russians, and there is all Russia assembled, a lot
+of brutes of Cossacks, that you never can come up with! It was country
+against country, a general stramash; we had to look out for ourselves.
+"It was all Asia against Europe," as the Red Man had said to Napoleon.
+"All right," Napoleon had answered, "I shall be ready for them."
+
+And there, in fact, were all the kings who came to lick Napoleon's hand.
+Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Poland, and Italy, all speaking us
+fair and going along with us; it was a fine thing! The Eagles had never
+cooed before as they did on parade in those days, when they were reared
+above all the flags of all the nations of Europe. The Poles could not
+contain their joy because the Emperor had a notion of setting up their
+kingdom again; and ever since Poland and France have always been like
+brothers. In short, the army shouts, "Russia shall be ours!"
+
+We cross the frontiers, all the lot of us. We march and better march,
+but never a Russian do we see. At last all our watch-dogs are encamped
+at Borodino. That was where I received the Cross, and there is no
+denying that it was a cursed battle. The Emperor was not easy in his
+mind; he had seen the Red Man, who said to him, "My child, you are going
+a little too fast for your feet; you will run short of men, and your
+friends will play you false."
+
+Thereupon the Emperor proposes a treaty. But before he signs it, he says
+to us:
+
+"Let us give these Russians a drubbing!"
+
+"All right!" cried the army.
+
+"Forward!" say the sergeants.
+
+My clothes were all falling to pieces, my shoes were worn out with
+trapezing over those roads out there, which are not good going at
+all. But it is all one. "Since here is the last of the row," said I to
+myself, "I mean to get all I can out of it."
+
+We were posted before the great ravine; we had seats in the front row.
+The signal is given, and seven hundred guns begin a conversation fit to
+make the blood spirt from your ears. One should give the devil his due,
+and the Russians let themselves be cut in pieces just like Frenchmen;
+they did not give way, and we made no advance.
+
+"Forward!" is the cry; "here is the Emperor!"
+
+So it was. He rides past us at a gallop, and makes a sign to us that a
+great deal depends on our carrying the redoubt. He puts fresh heart into
+us; we rush forward, I am the first man to reach the gorge. Ah! _mon
+Dieu_! how they fell, colonels, lieutenants, and common soldiers, all
+alike! There were shoes to fit up those who had none, and epaulettes for
+the knowing fellows that knew how to write.... Victory is the cry all
+along the line! And, upon my word, there were twenty-five thousand
+Frenchmen lying on the field. No more, I assure you! Such a thing was
+never seen before, it was just like a field when the corn is cut, with a
+man lying there for every ear of corn. That sobered the rest of us. The
+Man comes, and we make a circle round about him, and he coaxes us round
+(for he could be very nice when he chose), and persuades us to dine
+with Duke Humphrey, when we were hungry as hunters. Then our consoler
+distributes the Crosses of the Legion of Honor himself, salutes the
+dead, and says to us, "On to Moscow!"
+
+"To Moscow, so be it," says the army.
+
+We take Moscow. What do the Russians do but set fire to their city!
+There was a blaze, two leagues of bonfire that burned for two days! The
+buildings fell about our ears like slates, and molten lead and iron
+came down in showers; it was really horrible; it was a light to see our
+sorrows by, I can tell you! The Emperor said, "There, that is enough of
+this sort of thing; all my men shall stay here."
+
+We amuse ourselves for a bit by recruiting and repairing our frames,
+for we really were much fatigued by the campaign. We take away with us
+a gold cross from the top of the Kremlin, and every soldier had a little
+fortune. But on the way back the winter came down on us a month earlier
+than usual, a matter which the learned (like a set of fools) have never
+sufficiently explained; and we are nipped with the cold. We were no
+longer an army after that, do you understand? There was an end of
+generals and even of the sergeants; hunger and misery took the command
+instead, and all of us were absolutely equal under their reign. All we
+thought of was how to get back to France; no one stooped to pick up
+his gun or his money; every one walked straight before him, and armed
+himself as he thought fit, and no one cared about glory.
+
+The Emperor saw nothing of his star all the time, for the weather was so
+bad. There was some misunderstanding between him and heaven. Poor man,
+how bad he felt when he saw his Eagles flying with their backs turned
+on victory! That was really too rough! Well, the next thing is the
+Beresina. And here and now, my friends, any one can assure you on his
+honor, and by all that is sacred, that _never_, no, never since there
+have been men on earth, never in this world has there been such a
+fricasse of an army, caissons, transports, artillery and all, in such
+snow as that and under such a pitiless sky. It was so cold that you
+burned your hand on the barrel of your gun if you happened to touch
+it. There it was that the pontooners saved the army, for the pontooners
+stood firm at their posts; it was there that Gondrin behaved like a
+hero, and he is the sole survivor of all the men who were dogged enough
+to stand in the river so as to build the bridges on which the army
+crossed over, and so escaped the Russians, who still respected the Grand
+Army on account of its past victories. And Gondrin is an accomplished
+soldier, [pointing at Gondrin, who was gazing at him with the rapt
+attention peculiar to deaf people] a distinguished soldier who deserves
+to have your very highest esteem.
+
+I saw the Emperor standing by the bridge, and never feeling the cold at
+all. Was that, again, a natural thing? He was looking on at the loss
+of his treasures, of his friends, and those who had fought with him in
+Egypt. Bah! there was an end of everything. Women and wagons and guns
+were all engulfed and swallowed up, everything went to wreck and ruin. A
+few of the bravest among us saved the Eagles, for the Eagles, look you,
+meant France, and all the rest of you; it was the civil and military
+honor of France that was in our keeping, there must be no spot on the
+honor of France, and the cold could never make her bow her head. There
+was no getting warm except in the neighborhood of the Emperor; for
+whenever he was in danger we hurried up, all frozen as we were--we who
+would not stop to hold out a hand to a fallen friend.
+
+They say, too, that he shed tears of a night over his poor family of
+soldiers. Only he and Frenchmen could have pulled themselves out of such
+a plight; but we did pull ourselves out, though, as I am telling you,
+it was with loss, ay, and heavy loss. The Allies had eaten up all our
+provisions; everybody began to betray him, just as the Red Man had
+foretold. The rattle-pates in Paris, who had kept quiet ever since the
+Imperial Guard had been established, think that _he_ is dead, and
+hatch a conspiracy. They set to work in the Home Office to overturn the
+Emperor. These things come to his knowledge and worry him; he says to
+us at parting, "Good-bye, children; keep to your posts, I will come back
+again."
+
+Bah! Those generals of his lose their heads at once; for when he was
+away, it was not like the same thing. The marshals fall out among
+themselves, and make blunders, as was only natural, for Napoleon in his
+kindness had fed them on gold till they had grown as fat as butter,
+and they had no mind to march. Troubles came of this, for many of them
+stayed inactive in garrison towns in the rear, without attempting to
+tickle up the backs of the enemy behind us, and we were being driven
+back on France. But Napoleon comes back among us with fresh troops;
+conscripts they were, and famous conscripts too; he had put some
+thorough notions of discipline into them--the whelps were good to set
+their teeth in anybody. He had a bourgeois guard of honor too, and fine
+troops they were! They melted away like butter on a gridiron. We may
+put a bold front on it, but everything is against us, although the army
+still performs prodigies of valor. Whole nations fought against nations
+in tremendous battles, at Dresden, Lutzen, and Bautzen, and then it was
+that France showed extraordinary heroism, for you must all of you bear
+in mind that in those times a stout grenadier only lasted six months.
+
+We always won the day, but the English were always on our track, putting
+nonsense into other nations' heads, and stirring them up to revolt. In
+short, we cleared a way through all these mobs of nations; for wherever
+the Emperor appeared, we made a passage for him; for on the land as on
+the sea, whenever he said, "I wish to go forward," we made the way.
+
+There comes a final end to it at last. We are back in France; and in
+spite of the bitter weather, it did one's heart good to breathe one's
+native air again, it set up many a poor fellow; and as for me, it put
+new life into me, I can tell you. But it was a question all at once of
+defending France, our fair land of France. All Europe was up in arms
+against us; they took it in bad part that we had tried to keep the
+Russians in order by driving them back within their own borders, so
+that they should not gobble us up, for those Northern folk have a strong
+liking for eating up the men of the South, it is a habit they have; I
+have heard the same thing of them from several generals.
+
+So the Emperor finds his own father-in-law, his friends whom he had made
+crowned kings, and the rabble of princes to whom he had given back their
+thrones, were all against him. Even Frenchmen and allies in our own
+ranks turned against us, by orders from high quarters, as at Leipsic.
+Common soldiers would hardly be capable of such abominations; yet these
+princes, as they called themselves, broke their words three times a day!
+The next thing they do is to invade France. Wherever our Emperor shows
+his lion's face, the enemy beats a retreat; he worked more miracles for
+the defence of France than he had ever wrought in the conquest of
+Italy, the East, Spain, Europe, and Russia; he has a mind to bury every
+foreigner in French soil, to give them a respect for France, so he lets
+them come close up to Paris, so as to do for them at a single blow, and
+to rise to the highest height of genius in the biggest battle that ever
+was fought, a mother of battles! But the Parisians wanting to save their
+trumpery skins, and afraid for their twopenny shops, open their gates
+and there is a beginning of the _ragusades_, and an end of all joy and
+happiness; they make a fool of the Empress, and fly the white flag out
+at the windows. The Emperor's closest friends among his generals forsake
+him at last and go over to the Bourbons, of whom no one had ever heard
+tell. Then he bids us farewell at Fontainebleau:
+
+"Soldiers!"... I can hear him yet, we were all crying just like
+children; the Eagles and the flags had been lowered as if for a funeral.
+Ah! and it was a funeral, I can tell you; it was the funeral of the
+Empire; those smart armies of his were nothing but skeletons now. So he
+stood there on the flight of steps before his chateau, and he said:
+
+"Children, we have been overcome by treachery, but we shall meet again
+up above in the country of the brave. Protect my child, I leave him in
+your care. _Long live Napoleon II._!"
+
+He had thought of killing himself, so that no one should behold Napoleon
+after his defeat; like Jesus Christ before the Crucifixion, he thought
+himself forsaken by God and by his talisman, and so he took enough
+poison to kill a regiment, but it had no effect whatever upon him.
+Another marvel! he discovered that he was immortal; and feeling sure of
+his case, and knowing that he would be Emperor for ever, he went to an
+island for a little while, so as to study the dispositions of those folk
+who did not fail to make blunder upon blunder. Whilst he was biding his
+time, the Chinese and the brutes out in Africa, the Moors and what-not,
+awkward customers all of them, were so convinced that he was something
+more than mortal, that they respected his flag, saying that God would be
+displeased if any one meddled with it. So he reigned over all the rest
+of the world, although the doors of his own France had been closed upon
+him.
+
+Then he goes on board the same nutshell of a skiff that he sailed in
+from Egypt, passes under the noses of the English vessels, and sets foot
+in France. France recognizes her Emperor, the cuckoo flits from steeple
+to steeple; France cries with one voice, "Long live the Emperor!" The
+enthusiasm for that Wonder of the Ages was thoroughly genuine in these
+parts. Dauphine behaved handsomely; and I was uncommonly pleased to
+learn that people here shed tears of joy on seeing his gray overcoat
+once more.
+
+It was on March 1st that Napoleon set out with two hundred men to
+conquer the kingdom of France and Navarre, which by March 20th had
+become the French Empire again. On that day he found himself in Paris,
+and a clean sweep had been made of everything; he had won back his
+beloved France, and had called all his soldiers about him again, and
+three words of his had done it all--"Here am I!" 'Twas the greatest
+miracle God ever worked! Was it ever known in the world before that a
+man should do nothing but show his hat, and a whole Empire became his?
+They fancied that France was crushed, did they? Never a bit of it. A
+National Army springs up again at the sight of the Eagle, and we all
+march to Waterloo. There the Guard fall all as one man. Napoleon in his
+despair heads the rest, and flings himself three times on the enemy's
+guns without finding the death he sought; we all saw him do it, we
+soldiers, and the day was lost! That night the Emperor calls all his old
+soldiers about him, and there on the battlefield, which was soaked with
+our blood, he burns his flags and his Eagles--the poor Eagles that had
+never been defeated, that had cried, "Forward!" in battle after
+battle, and had flown above us all over Europe. That was the end of
+the Eagles--all the wealth of England could not purchase for her one
+tail-feather. The rest is sufficiently known.
+
+The Red Man went over to the Bourbons like the low scoundrel he is.
+France is prostrate, the soldier counts for nothing, they rob him of
+his due, send him about his business, and fill his place with nobles who
+could not walk, they were so old, so that it made you sorry to see them.
+They seize Napoleon by treachery, the English shut him up on a desert
+island in the ocean, on a rock ten thousand feet above the rest of the
+world. That is the final end of it; there he has to stop till the Red
+Man gives him back his power again, for the happiness of France. A lot
+of them say that he is dead! Dead? Oh! yes, very likely. They do not
+know him, that is plain! They go on telling that fib to deceive the
+people, and to keep things quiet for their tumble-down government.
+Listen; this is the whole truth of the matter. His friends have left him
+alone in the desert to fulfil a prophecy that was made about him, for I
+forgot to tell you that his name Napoleon really means the _Lion of the
+Desert_. And that is gospel truth. You will hear plenty of other things
+said about the Emperor, but they are all monstrous nonsense. Because,
+look you, to no man of woman born would God have given the power to
+write his name in red, as he did, across the earth, where he will be
+remembered for ever!... Long live "Napoleon, the father of the soldier,
+the father of the people!"
+
+
+
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