I shall never forget the journey I took behind the
Emperor's suite through the whole of the army. In
consequence of the columns, we had some halts of half
an hour at a time. Once he passed nearly 2,000 French
prisoners, all of them quite cheery. I don't think they
saluted the Emperor. This made a very painful im-
pression upon me. He must have suffered martyrdom
during this journey !

What a terrible fall I It appears that Jules Favre
has already proposed his deposition at the Corps L^gis-
latif, and that nobody of all those — canailles?— whom he
had loaded with favours, protested. Decidedly they are
an ungrateful lot; it will do them good to be humiliated.
I met M"^ Beyens ^ in the street to-day ; she is await-
ing the course of events. She has had a letter in
which it is said that the Empress is calm and resigned,
and that she wants to rejoin the Emperor at Cassel.
It seems that the Prince Imperial is at Chimay ; he will
doubtless take the same route. The Emperor is quite
done for.
I forgot to say that the newspapers lie when they say
that the Emperor was forced to take the road across
Belgium. It was he who expressed a desire to be con-
ducted that way. The escort quitted him at the frontier,
and only Boyen^ and Lynar are with him. But he has
no wish to go to Paris — poor man — and he has already
left again for Aix-la-Chapelle.
