se dessiner, 'pourtrayhimself

445. At St. Helena, where he died, Napoléon wrote memoirs upon his own career.

445-6. ne composait . • . personnagre, ' did net make up a character for himself,* ùe. a fictitious part he would hâve liked to hâve acted on the stage of the world.

447-8. 11 était. • • an dehors, <he was his very self,* *himself unveiled.*

451-2. 11 débita . • . grandiose, ' he ran on pretty much as foUows, in a strain now trivial, now grandiose.*