CHAPTER IV

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Schulmeister a Master Spy—His Value to Napoleon—A Claimant to Lofty Origin—Birth and Early Life—Smuggling as a Trade—Meets Savary—His Capture of Duc d'Enghien—Is presented to Napoleon—His Rôle in Austerlitz Campaign—Becomes Mack's Confidant—Supplies False Information to the Austrian—Personal Description of the Spy—The Capitulation of Ulm—His Advice to the Allies—Austerlitz—His Political Sense—His Social Ambition—Employed at Congress of Erfurt—Spies on Emperor Alexander, Queen Louise and Goethe—His Request to General Lasalle—The Legion of Honour—Retires from Paris—Fortunes crippled—Poverty in Old Age—Meets Napoleon III.—Death