just reversal of its verdict. At Bordeaux, at the beginning of the Hundred Days, Louis XVI.'s daughter, the Duchesse d'Angoulême, displayed an energy which caused Napoleon to say of her, " Madame d'Angoulême is the only man in the family " ; [1] but her ordinary mood was melancholy and supercilious ; the Duc de Berri was considered violent and somewhat limited ; the Comte d'Artois frivolous and narrow in his ideas ; the old Duc de Bourbon, a nonentity. But the Duc d'Orléans was already beginning to command the attention of a few.
On the other hand, the fact remained that Napoleon had granted a Constitutional Charter of his own, against his will to be sure, and without any very sincere intention of remaining faithful to it. Nevertheless, it was enough to prove that liberty and legitimacy were not, as was hitherto supposed, inseparable terms.
- ↑ A carelessness by no means uncommon has given rise to the story that Napoleon's words, uttered in 1815, referred to the Duchesse de Berri. Now in 1815 the Duchesse de Berri was not married. Besides, she gave no special signs of virility beyond the insurrection which she stirred up in Vendée in 1832, at which date Napoleon had been dead eleven years.
