Thereupon, Fontanes, one of the twelve, prudently abstains from going to Saint-Cloud.

M.de Segur, however, president of the committee, he goes.

In the evening, at the coucher, Napoleon advances to him before the whole court and, in that terrifying tone of voice which, even today, vibrates from the dead lines of the silent page, "Sir," says he to him, "do the literary people really desire to set France ablaze ?...

How dare the Academy speak of regicides ?...

I ought to put you and M.de Fontanes, as Councillor of State and Grand-Master, in Vincennes....