the same age as himself, and like him born in Corsica, who was named
Campi, and enjoyed the most confidential relations in the count's
household. On the day that the 'Moniteur' gave a list of the new French
princes, Campi was promenading in the handsome gallery of pictures
collected by Lucien, with the latter's young secretary, when the
following conversation occurred between them. "You have no doubt read
the 'Moniteur' of to-day?"--"Yes."--"You have seen that all the members
of the family have had the title of French princes bestowed on them, and
the name of monsieur le count alone is wanting to the list."--"What
matters that? There are kingdoms."--"Considering the care that
sovereigns take to keep them, there will hardly be any vacancy."--
"Ah, well, they will be made. All the royal families of Europe are worn
out, and we must have new ones." Thereupon Campi was silent, and advised
the young man to hold his tongue, if he wished to preserve the favor of
the count. However, it was not long after this before the young
secretary repeated this confidential conversation, which, without being
singularly striking, gives, however, an idea of the amount of confidence
which should be placed in the pretended moderation of Count Lucien, and
in the epigrams against his brother and his family which have been
attributed to him.

No one in the chateau was ignorant of the hostility which existed between
Lucien Bonaparte and the Empress Josephine; and to make their court to
the latter the former habitues of Malmaison, now become the courtiers of
the Tuileries; were in the habit of relating to her the most piquant
anecdotes they could collect relative to the younger brother of the
Emperor. Thus it happened that by chance one day I heard a dignified
person and a senator of the Empire give the Empress, in the gayest manner
imaginable, very minute details as to one of the temporary liaisons of
Count Lucien. I do not guarantee the authenticity of the anecdote, and I