4 APRIL 1941, Page 13

A NAPOLEONIC MEMORY

Say—I was much interested in the letter about Napoleon's Prisoners of War. My mother and her sister were staying with M. Simon, the well-known banker, in Paris at the time when the Emperors of Austria and Russia paid a visit to the Emperor of the French ; while passing through the Tuileries gardens a sudden storm of rain came on. M. Simon asked an old soldier if these young English ladies might shelter in what I suppose was a sentry-box ; be agreed at once, and, stepping forward, asked if he might shake hands with them, explaining: "I was a prisoner in England for ten years, and I was treated with the greatest kindness."—Yours, &c., F. L. DARERS.

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