No. 85 To the Empress, at St. Cloud
Tilsit, July 8,26 1807.
The Queen of Prussia is really charming; she is full of coquetterie for me; but don’t be jealous; I am an oil-cloth over which all that can only glide. It would cost me too much to play the lover.
Napoleon.
No. 12,875 of the Correspondence (taken from Las Cases).
July 9th.—Peace signed between France and Prussia, the latter resigning all its possessions between the Rhine and the Elbe.