To the end of his life the Cure remembered and talked of the moment when the avocat gave battle.

To him it was superb--he never could have done it himself.
"I repeat, His Excellency, Monsieur De la Riviere.

My information is greater than yours, both by accident and through knowledge.

I accept him as a Napoleon, and as a Frenchman I have no cause to blush for my homage or my faith, or for His Excellency.

He is a man of loving disposition, of great knowledge, of power to win men, of deep ideas, of large courage.