. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . he sent to the EmperorFrancis at Dijon the declaration that he accepted all the conditions;the marshals should endeavor by making known this fact to arrestthe march of Schwarzenberg. After a few hours rest at Troyes, heproceeded with the utmost haste; but it was all over, and he wasobliged to turn about, nothing having been accomplished. Notwithstanding all expostulations of his confidants. Napoleonhad believed that, in a case of necessity, he might venture to giveup Paris; and now the utter hoUowness of
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . he sent to the EmperorFrancis at Dijon the declaration that he accepted all the conditions;the marshals should endeavor by making known this fact to arrestthe march of Schwarzenberg. After a few hours rest at Troyes, heproceeded with the utmost haste; but it was all over, and he wasobliged to turn about, nothing having been accomplished. Notwithstanding all expostulations of his confidants. Napoleonhad believed that, in a case of necessity, he might venture to giveup Paris; and now the utter hoUowness of this error was attachment of the French people he had never possessed; andwhen the humbled capital heartlessly turned its back upon him, thecountry, thirsting for peace, without a will of its own, followed, aswas its wont, the example of Paris. It was Talleyrand who gavethe decisive turn to the circumstances now occurring in since the battle of Leipsic he had regarded the cause of Na-poleon as lost, and he was not the man to suffer himself to be buried PLATE 1 llUlori/of AU Nation». \\>! Xlir. /iu;;eÄJa. Entrance of the Allies into Paris, March si. Iöl4,From a copper-plalc engraving by F. .(ugel; original drawing by L. Wolf (1772-1032). TALLEYRAND AND THE ROYALIST FEELING. 859 amid the ruins of a government that was l)reaking in pieces. Fore-seeincr the necessity of giving a new head to the country, he desiredto be the one to decide who should be the ruler, and under whatform of government. Consequently, after the battle of Montereau,he had privately sent de Vitrolles to Chiitillon, and to the head-quarters at Troyes, in order to ascertain positively the purposes ofthe allies, and to commend to them the cause of the Bourbons. Onthe very day of the entrance of the allies into Paris he was presentat a council of the sovereigns and their statesmen, in which he hadlittle difficulty in persuading them that the succession of NapoleonII. under a regen
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