Blame belongs neither to those who have perished nor to those who survived it.

It was not in any individual might to change the elements and foresee events born out of the nature of things."] [Footnote 6251: Villemain, Ibid., I., 145.

(Words of M.de Narbonne on leaving Napoleon after several interviews with him in 1812.) "The Emperor, so powerful, 50 victorious is disturbed by only one thing in this world and that is by people who talk, and, in default of these, by those who think.

And yet he seems to like them or, at least, cannot do without them."] [Footnote 6252: Welschinger, ibid., p.30.

(Session of the Council of State, Dec.12, 1809)] [Footnote 6253: Welschinger, ibid., pp.31, 33, 175, 190.