No. 57 March 25th — Abolition of Slave Trade in Great Britain by Parliament
To the Empress, at Paris.
March 25, 1807.
I have received your letter of March 13th. If you really wish to please me, you must live exactly as you live when I am at Paris. Then you were not in the habit of visiting the second-rate theatres or other places. You ought always to go into the Royal box. As for your home life: hold receptions there, and have your fixed circles of friends; that, my dear, is the only way to deserve my approbation. Greatness has its inconveniences; an Empress cannot go where a private individual may.
Very best love. My health is good. My affairs prosper.
Napoleon.