He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.

"I will die," he said, "rather than wear the three frogs upon my heart!" He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII.

"The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; "let him take himself off to Prussia with that queue of his." He was happy to combine in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia and England.

He did it so often that he lost his place.

There he was, turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread.