Here is the laconic message which brought him so much pleasure: "To Colonel Fougas, Fontainebleau.
"Just left the Emperor.

You to be brevet brigadier until something better turns up.

If necessary, _corps legislatif_ will amend law.
"LEBLANC." Leon dressed himself, ran to the hotel of the blue sundial, and found Fougas dead in his bed.
It is said in Fontainebleau, that M.Nibor made an autopsy, and found that serious disorders had been produced by desiccation.

Some people are nevertheless satisfied that Fougas committed suicide.

It is certain that Master Bonnivet received, by the penny post, a sort of a will, expressed thus: "I leave my heart to my country, my memory to natural affection, my example to the army, my hate to perfidious Albion, fifty thousand francs to Gothon, and two hundred thousand to the 23d of the line.