The vicomte told his tale very neatly. It was an anecdote, then current, to the effect that the Duc d`Enghien had gone secretly to Paris to visit Mademoiselle George; that at her house he came upon Bonaparte, who also enjoyed the famous actress` favors, and that in his presence Napoleon happened to fall into one of the fainting fits to which he was subject, and was thus at the duc`s mercy. The latter spared him, and this magnanimity Bonaparte subsequently repaid by death.