If his attire was simple, it but set off the better the play of his mobile features, and the rich, unfailing flow of his conversation.

Perhaps no clearer and more pleasing account of his appearance and his conduct at a reception has ever been given to the world than this sketch of the great man in one of his gentler moods by John Leslie Foster, who visited Paris shortly after the Peace of Amiens: "He is about five feet seven inches high, delicately and gracefully made; his hair a dark brown crop, thin and lank; his complexion smooth, pale, and sallow; his eyes gray, but very animated; his eye-brows light brown, thin and projecting.

All his features, particularly his mouth and nose, fine, sharp, defined, and expressive beyond description; expressive of what?
Not of anything _perce_ as the prints expressed him, still less of anything _mechant_; nor has he anything of that eye whose bend doth awe the world.

The true expression of his countenance is a pleasing melancholy, which, whenever he speaks, relaxes into the most agreeable and gracious smile you can conceive.

To this you must add the appearance of deep and intense thought, but above all the predominating expression a look of calm and tranquil resolution and intrepidity which nothing human could discompose.