* ‘False echoes’ – yes, false! for the words ascribed to Napoleon, as breathed to the memory of Desaix, never were uttered at all. They stand in the same category of theatrical inventions as the cry of the foundering Vengeur, as the vaunt of General Cambronne at Waterloo, ‘La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas,’ as the repartees of Talleyrand.¹³