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Excerpt from Memoirs of Constant First Valet De Chambre of the Emperor, Vol. 2: On the Private Life of Napoleon His Family and His Court HE sum fixed on for the toilet of His Majesty was twenty thousand francs, and he was very angry because this sum was greatly exceeded the year of the coronation. It was with great trembling that the different budgets for the household expenses were submitted to him. He was constantly re trenching and curtailing, and recommending all sorts of reforms. I recollect that on asking a place worth three thousand francs for some one, which he granted me, he exclaimed: Three thousand francs! But are you well aware that that is the revenue of one of my communes? When I was sub-lieutenant I did not spend that. This expression was constantly cropping up in the warnings given by the Emperor to persons with whom he was familiar, and when I had the honor to be a sub-lieutenant was often on his lips, and always for the purpose of making exhor tations or economical comparisons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.