. The love affairs of Napoleon. And this is proof that he was not soutterly devoid of the moral sense as his conduct wouldmake it appear. During the day an explanation took place betweenthe Chief Consul and Madame Junot. Bonapartespoke strongly to her, even harshly, and the upshotof it all was that she said her mother was ill in Parisand required her services. And when will you return? said Napoleon. When my duties require me General. But youmay dispose of my rooms. I will never occupy themagain. For that I give you my word, here and now. Just as you please, said the Consul; anyhow,you are qui
. The love affairs of Napoleon. And this is proof that he was not soutterly devoid of the moral sense as his conduct wouldmake it appear. During the day an explanation took place betweenthe Chief Consul and Madame Junot. Bonapartespoke strongly to her, even harshly, and the upshotof it all was that she said her mother was ill in Parisand required her services. And when will you return? said Napoleon. When my duties require me General. But youmay dispose of my rooms. I will never occupy themagain. For that I give you my word, here and now. Just as you please, said the Consul; anyhow,you are quite right in going away this morning. Afterall this stupid business we should not much care aboutseeing each other, you and Napoleon seems never to have forgotten the checkhe received at the hands of Madame Junot. He boreher a lasting grudge for it, and it is partly to thiscircumstance that Madame dAbrantes attributes herhusbands disgrace. But that is an error, and there is 1 Duchesse dAbrantes, Memoires, Vol. Ill, p. 1 \ Gavartii, pittxt. THE DUCHESSE DABRANTES THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NAPOLEON 151 no necessity to ascribe it to anything else than Junotsown folly. Over and above the ill-will thus engen-dered, Napoleon may also have entertained a littlejealousy on account of her friendship with GeneralDuroc. Jealousy, as La Rochefoucauld most truly says, isborn with love but does not invariably die with , as is well known, Madame dAbrantes was onintimate terms of friendship with the Grand Marshalof the Palace, and Napoleon, who was aware of it, notunreasonably entertained the belief that when a manshows friendship for a woman, love has usually pre-pared the way. One day, therefore, he took it into hishead to ask Duroc point-blank if he had ever been inlove with Madame Junot. Duroc merely laughed asthough such a thing were quite out of the is no answer, said Napoleon impatiently, tellme definitely, were you ever in love with her? TheGrand Marshal protested
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