'He loves me the same as a dog loves his master,' is the phrase he made use of in speaking of him to me.

He compared Berthier's sentiment for his person to that of a child's nurse.
Far from being opposed to his theory of the motives influencing men these sentiments were its natural consequence whenever he came across sentiments to which he could not apply the theory of calculation based on cold interest, he sought the cause of it in a kind of instinct."] [Footnote 1274: Beugnot, "Memoires," II., 59.] [Footnote 1275: "Memorial." "If I had returned victorious from Moscow, I would have brought the Pope not to regret temporal power: I would have converted him into an idol...

I would have directed the religious world as well as the political world...

My councils would have represented Christianity, and the Pope would have only been president of them."] [Footnote 1276: De Segur, III., 312.

(In Spain, 1809.)] [Footnote 1277: "Memoires du Prince Eugene." (Letters of Napoleon, August, 1806.)] [Footnote 1278: Letter of Napoleon to Fouche, March 3, 1810.