This is the distinction between us." [When one of the princes of the smaller German States was showing Marechal Lannes, with a contemptuous superiority of manner but ill concealed, the portraits of his ancestors, and covertly alluding to the absence of Lannes's, that general turned the tables on him by haughtily remarking, "But I am an ancestor."] Napoleon used to observe that if he had had two such field-marshals as Suchet in Spain he would have not only conquered but kept the Peninsula.
Suchet's sound judgment, his governing yet conciliating spirit, his military tact, and his bravery, had procured him astonishing success.

"It is to be regretted," added he, "that a sovereign cannot improvise men of his stamp." On the 19th of March, 1815, a number of papers were left in the King's closet.

Napoleon ordered them to be examined, and among them was found the letter written by Madame Campan to Louis XVIII., immediately after the first restoration.

In this letter she enumerated the contents of the portfolio which Louis XVI.

had placed under her care.