She honoured me with her friendship, and the remembrance of the benevolence she has shown me, to the last moment of her too short existence, will never be effaced from my heart" (tome i.

pp.101-2).]-- -- [Meneval, the successor of Bourrienne is his place of secretary to Napoleon, and who remained attached to the Emperor until the end, says of Josephine (tome i.p.

227), "Josephine was irresistibly attractive.

Her beauty was not regular, but she had 'La grace, plus belle encore que la beaute', according to the good La Fontaine.

She had the soft abandonment, the supple and elegant movements, and the graceful carelessness of the creoles .-- (The reader must remember that the term 'Creole' does not imply any taint of black blood, but only that the person, of European family, has been born in the West Indies.)--Her temper was always the same.