82 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANCIS 



?l,? e : on before lhera - Aft - *", 



ro " -a 



re, Legendre, Biot, insisted on the I had 

 and what they termed the course with v h 



* *" 



dangers amma teAce ended by 



n & eis 1 had undergone. M. de TV * 



^elding when he saw that all the ^ ^^ *"* ! 

 the Academy had taken me unde^f" P 'T' * 

 on the day of the election he Z ^ e hlS V te< II 

 be, I must own, a subject of i & ' et with m6 even t0 



day, after a lapse of f orty . ^ %**> if T had 

 member of the Institute w' / ^' m * obtained the V0te 

 of the author of the Jif/ Mn % ue Gekste. 



The Members o? ' ref Institute were always presented 



to the Emperor aft? SU1 "^ ^ ac ^ con ^ rme ^ ^ le ^ r nominations. 



n the appointed dr^' in com P an y with the P residents ? 



with the secretarif^^ ^ ^ ie ^ our c ^ asses > and w ^ ^ e 



academicians whr J ^ iad s P ec ial publications to offer to the 



Chief of the S r ' ate > ^y assembled in one of the saloons 



of the Tuile L31 *i es When the Emperor returned from 



mass, he l-^eld a kind of review of these savans, these 



artists, tj>Miese literary men, in green uniform. 



I nr e Aist own that the spectacle which I witnessed on 

 the ^cJay of my presentation did not edify me. I even ex- 

 perienced real displeasure in seeing the anxiety evinced 

 b ,y members of the Institute to be noticed. 



" You are very young," said Napoleon to me on coming 

 near me ; and without waiting for a flattering reply, 

 which it would not have been difficult to find, he added, 

 " What' is your name ? " And my neighbour oil the 



