The whole army of that day was present there, in the courtyard of the Tuileries, represented by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and Austerlitz before it.⁠—“Sire,” said the Minister of the Interior to Napoleon, “yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire.”⁠—“What man is that?” said the Emperor brusquely, “and what has he done?”⁠—“He wants to do something, Sire.”⁠—“What is it?”⁠—“To visit the sewers of Paris.”