Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — To Annoy Napoleon. [ARTICLE]

To Annoy Napoleon.

A curious anecdote, of which we may say. Si non e vero e ben trovato, is illustrative of the disposition of Talleyrand, it was resolved that each of the allied powers should designate a commissioner charged with the surveillanoe of Napoleon at St Helena, Talleyrand proposed to the King for this office M. de Montchenu, described as “an insupportable babbler, a complete nonentity.” On being asked why he selected this man, Talleyrand replied: *Tt it the only revenge which I wish to take for his treatment of me: however, it is terrible. What a punishment for a man of lionupurte’s stamp to be obliged to live with an ignorant and pedantic chatterer! 1 know him; he will not bo üblo to support this annoyance; it will make hliu ill, and he wfll die of it by slow degrees."—Edinburgh Review.