Shortly before Caroline's marriage to Murat, and while she was yet at St.Germain, Napoleon observed to Madame Campan: "I do not like those love matches between young people whose brains are excited by the flames of the imagination.

I had other views for my sister.

Who knows what high alliance I might have procured for her! She is thoughtless, and does not form a just notion of my situation.

The time will come when, perhaps, sovereigns might dispute for her hand.

She is about to marry a brave man; but in my situation that is not enough.