[Footnote 66:  An English detenu, who was then in Paris, says:  “During the battle, the Boulevard des Italiens and the Caffe Tortoni were thronged with fashionable loungers of both sexes, sitting as usual on the chairs placed there, and appearing almost uninterested spectators of the number of wounded French brought in.  The officers were carried on mattresses.  About two o’clock a general cry of sauve qui peut was heard on the boulevards, from the Porte St. Martin to Les Italiens; this caused a general and confused flight, which spread like the undulations of a wave, even beyond the Pont Neuf....  During the whole of the battle wounded soldiers crawled into the streets, and lay down to die on the pavement....  The Moniteur of this day was a full sheet; but no notice was taken of the war, or the army.  Four columns were occupied by an article on the dramatic works of Denis, and three with a dissertation on the existence of Troy.”—­Memorable Events in Paris in 1814, p. 93.]

CHAPTER XXXVII

Napoleon’s Journey to Frejus—­Voyage to Elba—­his conduct and occupations there—­Discontents in France—­Return of Prisoners of War—­Jealousy of the Army—­Union of the Jacobins and Buonapartists—­Their intrigues—­Napoleon escapes from Elba.

Four commissioners, one from each of the great Allied Powers, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England, accompanied Buonaparte on his journey.  He was attended by Bertrand, Grand Master of the Palace, and some other attached friends and servants; and while fourteen carriages were conveying him and his immediate suite towards Elba, 700 infantry and about 150 cavalry of the Imperial Guard (all picked men, and all volunteers), marched in the same direction, to take on them the military duties of the exiled court.

During the earlier part of his progress Napoleon continued to be received respectfully by the civil functionaries of the different towns and departments, and with many tokens of sympathy on the part of the people; and his personal demeanour was such as it had been wont to appear in his better days.  At Valence he met Augereau, whose conduct during the campaign had moved his bitterest displeasure; the interview was short—­the recriminations mutual, and, for the first time perhaps, the fallen Emperor heard himself addressed in that tone of equality and indifference to which, for so many years, he had been a stranger.  Thenceforth the course of his journey carried him more and more deeply into the provinces wherein his name had never been popular, and contemptuous hootings began by degrees to be succeeded by clamours of fierce resentment.  On more than one occasion the crowd had threatened personal violence when the horses were changing, and he appears to have exhibited alarm such as could hardly have been expected in one so familiar with all the dangers of warfare.  But civil commotions, as we