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 If Ney was mad in his cavalry charges, he was no more so than in the years or victory If Grouchy did not think for himself, it was what all the marshais were trained not to do, and some one ot them had acted as stupidly as Grouchy in near ly every battle. Finally even II the Emperor could have rescued his army from the field when beset by two foes, ne had no place to go for he had eut ms ms own lines of retreat into the sympathy and confidence of the French people.
 The Last Abdication
 Now, when, for the fourth time in four years, he returned to Paris in deteat and without an army, patriots turned away from him despairingly and tihe- servers summed the victim of ill luck. why" Fouche complained, "the game ster can't even win play any more! While that immortal sleuth crept about plotting to make himself the Talleyranu, the manager of this second downfall, the corps legislatif listened to the dlsln-
  took to assume the control of the gov ernment All factions sought by dis owning and discarding Napoleon to ap- pease the allies and arrest their march on Paris.
 The one-time master of Europe had re- ceived the blunt notice that the legisla- tive bodies gave him an hour to lay down the scepter, when, at noon of his second day in Paris, he took up his pen to write once more an act of abdication. In it he said.
 "I offer myself as sacrifice to the hatred of the enemies of France. May they be sincere in their protestations and feel no enmity but against me alone!
 My political life is terminated, and proclaim my son. under the title of Napol- con II, Emperor of the French.
 But he did not deceive himself. He knew that the allies would bring back the Bourbons. A provisional government of five was established by the legisla- tors. with Carnot and Caulincourt among it's members, and the feline Fouche as it's president While that body sat in state at the Tuileries the dethroned monarch fingered on in the Elysee, almost a strang- CT at the seat of his empire.
 Deserted as the palace halls were, crowd passed about it's gates day and night and never failed to cheer Napoleon when he appeared in the garden. Like his guard at Fontainebeau in 1874 these un- rewarded friends alone continued to honor him. What do~ these people owe me?" he sadly remarked. "I found them poor, l leave them poor. Yet they alone remain faithful
 But artstocrat as he was by nature, having always stood in dread of the null titude, he was too true to his instincts now to think of arouslng the rabble, as he called them, even to save his crown. While that little throng in the street of course, did not represent the French people. their spontaneous sympathy and their simple devotion to him in misfortune might have been emulated by all France had he built his power upon the democracy rather than based it on an aristocracy.
 He had abundant opportunity to learn ssiifle on the throne how sordid a priv fleged class necessarily is. But even now when he was without throne, the ruling passion of that unsuitable element was manifested toward him in the meanes manner. Few as his callers were one o them stole from his mantel a case oi diamond-studded snuff boxes and another took from beneath the cushions on d sof $SO0,000 in securities.
 Driven From Paris
 Fouche could not sit easy in the chaii of state while the master whom he had so often betrayed remained only a few hundred feet away. He must exercise the ghost in the Elysee and after the manner of the policeman that he was bid the Emperor Move on" It wa. Marshal Davout who accepted the deli cate task of ordering away from Pari' the man who had made him the Prince of Eckmuhl.
 The captor of the capitals of Europ retreated from his own capital the Sun day after the battle of Waterloo And