Show what was in napoleons bo havior towards ane was that atthe at the very time that he showed himself most suspicions of me he was endeavoring to draw me nearer to him ahns in the month of december 1813 he asked me to resume the portfolio of foreign affairs which declined convinced as I 1 was that we coald never agree on the only possible way of bis escape from the maze into which he had been brought by his folly A few weeks later in tho month of january 1814 before hia departure to the army and aben M da had already started for the congress the emperor worked almost every evening with M de la who had the foreign office in M de cau lain courts absence in the course of these conversations which wre kept up far into the night he often opened his mind a strange fashion thus he several times repeated him after reading the dispatches in which the duke af pf dicenza told him of the progress of the chatillion negotiations ahl if talleyrand were there he would pull me through Talley rands memoirs in century |