It did not break: but the portrait of Josephine was detached and broken.
Whereupon Lucien picked up the pieces and handed them to his brother, remarking: "It is a pity: meanwhile, until you can break me, it is your wife's portrait that you have broken."[203] To Talleyrand, Napoleon was equally unbending: summoning him on April 11th, he said: "Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season.

I renounce Louisiana.

It is not only New Orleans that I cede: it is the whole colony, without reserve; I know the price of what I abandon.

I have proved the importance I attach to this province, since my first diplomatic act with Spain had the object of recovering it.

I renounce it with the greatest regret: to attempt obstinately to retain it would be folly.