No. 9
Munich.—Napoleon arrived here on October 24th.
Lemarois.—A trusty aide-de-camp, who had witnessed Napoleon’s civil marriage in March 1796, at 10 P.M.
I was grieved.—They had no news from October 12th to 21st in Paris, where they learnt daily that Strasburg was in the same predicament. Mdme. de Rémusat, at Paris, was equally anxious, and such women, in the Emperor’s absence, tended by their presence or even by their correspondence to increase the alarms of Josephine.
Amuse yourself.—M. Masson (Josephine, Impératrice et Reine, p. 424) has an interesting note of how she used to attend lodge at the Orient in Strasburg, to preside at a “loge d’adoption sous la direction de Madame de Dietrich, grand maîtresse titulaire.”
Talleyrand has come.—He was urgently needed to help in the correspondence with the King of Prussia (concerning the French violation of his Anspach territory), with whom Napoleon’s relations were becoming more strained.