Var. : ...comme un flot de sa source. (MS

Page 14. 1. 29. Encor 'Napoléon : cp. Victor Hugo, Les Orientales^ xl, Luiy where he calls the emperor ' l'homme ineffaçable ' ; also Les Feuilles d'Automne^ xxx ; Odes^ iii, 6, Les Deux îles y 1825 ; and Odes^ i> n, Buonaparte ; Les Chants du Crépuscule, ii, A la Colonne ; Les Voix intérieures, iv ; Les Châtiments : V Expiation, v, 13. Thus glancing through Victor Hugo, the poetical record of the time, we can realize the exclamation of Barbier.

1. 33. Ce fut un triste jour» The first statue on the Vendôme Column, or Column of the Grand Army, by Chaudet, representing Napoléon as a Roman emperor with a winged Victory in his hand, was puUed down in 18 14 and the métal used to re-cast the statue of Henri IV on the Pont-Neuf. In 1833 Louis-Philippe set up a new Napoléon, this time in the historical frock-coat, and Napoléon III, in 1863, the Roman Caesar we now see.

1. 45. Le Hun, i.e. the Cossack. Cp. Béranger's Chant du Cosaque : * Fils d'Attila, j'obéis à sa voix.'