No. 1 To Josephine, at Plombières
Paris the “27”..., 1801.
The weather is so bad here that I have remained in Paris. Malmaison, without you, is too dreary. The fête has been a great success; it has rather tired me. The blister they have put on my arm gives me constant pain.
Some plants have come for you from London, which I have sent to your gardener. If the weather is as bad at Plombières as it is here, you will suffer severely from floods.
Best love to “Maman” and Hortense.
Bonaparte.
Events of 1802.
January 4th.—Louis Bonaparte marries Hortense Beauharnais, both unwilling.
January 9th.—The First Consul, with Josephine, leaves for Lyons, where,
January 25th.—He remodels the Cisalpine Republic as the Italian Republic, under his Presidency.
March 25th.—Treaty of Amiens signed in London. French lose only Ceylon and Trinidad. Malta to be restored to the Order of Knights, reconstituted.
May 7th.—Toussaint surrenders to Leclerc.
May 19th.—Institution of the Legion of Honour.