The 7th Brumaire, year XI, of the French republic
Napoleon Bonaparte, first consul,
having visited this field, ordered the rebuilding
of the monument destined to perpetuate the memory of
Henry IV., And the victory of Ivry.

Fourth Inscription.

The WOES experienced by France, at the epoch
of the battle of Ivry, were the result
of the appeal made by the opposing parties in France to
Spain and England.  Every family, every party
which calls in foreign powers to its aid,
has merited and will merit, to the most distant posterity
the malediction of the French people.

All these inscriptions have since been effaced, and replaced by this, “On this spot Henry the Fourth stood the day of the battle of Ivry, 14th March, 1590.”

Monsieur Ledier, Mayor of Ivry, accompanied the First Consul on this excursion; and the First Consul held a long conversation with him, in which he appeared to be agreeably impressed.  He did not form so good an opinion of the Mayor of Evreux, and interrupted him abruptly, in the midst of a complimentary address which this worthy magistrate was trying to make him, by asking if he knew his colleague, the Mayor of Ivry.  “No, general,” replied the mayor.  “Well, so much the worse for you; I trust you will make his acquaintance.”

It was also at Evreux that an official of high rank amused Madame Bonaparte and her suite, by a naivete which the First Consul alone did not find diverting, because he did not like such simplicity displayed by an official.  Monsieur de Ch——­ did the honors of the country town to the wife of the First Consul, and this, in spite of his age, with much zeal and activity; and Madame Bonaparte, among other questions which. her usual kindness and grace dictated to her, asked him if he was married, and if he had a family.  “Indeed, Madame, I should think so,” replied Monsieur de Ch——­ with a smile and a bow, “j’ai cinq-z-enfants.”  —­“Oh, mon Dieu,” cried Madame Bonaparte, “what a regiment!  That is extraordinary; what, sir, seize enfants?”—­“Yes, Madame, cinq-z-enfants, cinq-z-enfants,” repeated the official, who did not see anything very marvelous in it, and who wondered at the astonishment shown by Madame Bonaparte.  At last some one explained to her the mistake which la liaison dangereuse of M. de Ch had caused her to make, and added with comic seriousness, “Deign, Madame, to excuse M. de Ch——.  The Revolution has interrupted the prosecution of his studies.”  He was more than sixty years of age.