No. 16
Tuesday, January 23rd.
On January 21st a Privy Council was summoned to approve of Marie Louise as their “choice of a consort, who may give an heir to the throne” (Thiers). Cambacérès, Fouché, and Murat wished for the Russian princess; Lebrun, Cardinal Fesch, and King Louis for a Saxon one; but Talleyrand, Champagny, Maret, Berthier, Fontanes were for Austria.