No. 5 To the Empress, at Paris
November 26, 1808.
I have received your letter. I trust that your health be as good as mine is, although I am very busy. All goes well here.
I think you should return to the Tuileries on December 21st, and from that date give a concert daily for eight days.—Yours ever,
Napoleon.
Kind regards to Hortense and to M. Napoleon.
December 3rd.—French voluntarily evacuate Berlin.
December 4th.—Surrender of Madrid. Napoleon abolishes the Inquisition and feudal rights. (“He regards the taking of a capital as decisive for the submission of a whole kingdom; thus in 1814 will act his adversaries, pale but judicious imitators of his strategy.”—Montgaillard.)