The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-14
CRAP TURE
OF BON AR TE'S
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4 An extraordinary ana Intimate
picture Of Napoleon and his
family life II given BY the Em-
perct's second Masnellike and
valet. Louis Etienne ST. Denis, In
his personal recCllections .rEapo-
leon: From the Tuileries to st.
Helena" tIarper).
The manuscript. Of this remark
able document has repaained until
very recently unpublished and in
the hands of the st. Denis family.
Prof. q. Michaut. 81 the sCrb0nne,
"a his Introduction. says:
..obviously, st. Denis only con
Germ was to Be truthful. His very
worship of the emperor convinced
him that his master could only
gain ~ being painted q he really
Was.'
Thus he shows III many Of his
masters small weaknesses, which
are never Of = character to offend
the l1ero's w0rshippers. but only
prove that he was human. St.
Denis was closely attached to the
eniperor's person, waiting on him
at table, Is wen as doing the
work Of d valet. AFTER Napoleonss
death he wrote his collections,
which give interesting gIimpses Of
the ernperor's family life with
Marie Louise and the little king
Of Rome, and graphic account
of the Russian campaign, the re-
treat from Moscow, and Waterloo.
He was with Napoleon at st.
Helena until he died, doing the
last offices for him. He knew
things that no one else knew.
Writing Of the period shortly be-
fore the emperor's death, ST.
Denis chronicled:
Every morning he Mapoleonl
( would SO and enjoy the fresh sir
under his arbor, to which he took
q little walk every day, and he
would SIT down on his folding
camp-chair when he felt his legs
bending under him. He would
often repeat, All, me! Poor me.
and, turning his eyes on whoever
was with him. he would say those
lines which voltaire places in the
mouth OF Lusisnan:
4 can never hope to see Paris
again. -
And he would pronounce them
with the accent Of q man who has
lost all hope, and in manner to
imprint on those present what no
felt himself. -"
The bitterness Of NapOleon's
exile il set down again and again
by such details as the following
paragraphs about the ex-ruler's
physician:
During the first phase of his
illness the emperor frequently
sent for Antomnarchi. When one
Of us went to his quarters to tell
him that the emperor wanted him
he was most often away from
Longwood or at Madame Ber-
trand's. When it was reported to
the emperor that Antomnarchi
was out he would show his dis
satisfaction. AS soon as the doc.
tor was informed that they had
been looking for him he would
hurry back and the emperor
would not fail to give him q dress
ing down. He would very often
go to Madame Bertrard's in the
evening, and that was precisely
the time the emperor would send
for him. Once the emperor, very
irritated at having to watt. for
him a long time. said to him,
You come to me az though you
We're paying a thirty-sous visit.
You are here in my service and
at. my orders. If Larray Baron
Jean Dominique Larrey, surgeon.
in-chief Of the French ARMY were
here he would not leave the head
OF my bed; he would sleep there.
on the carpet. When I send for
you 1t IL because I need you. You
ought to be at home, and not
somewhere else, etc." Antomnar-
chi, after such q scolding, ought
to have paid attention to 1t. but.
whether he was bored by remain
ing In his room or for some other
reason, he still continued to 80
away. which was the case during
the whole time the emreror's i'll