Decorated by the Emperor

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An old. Retired general, who served under Napoleon Bonaparte, is shown in a poverty-stricken condition at the time of the Restoration. He cannot pay his room rent, so his sympathetic landlady introduces him to a Jewish dealer in curios and antiquities to whom he might be able to sell some of his relics of his Empire collection. The old Jew ridicules a bust of Napoleon and the old soldier shows him the door. Tired and disheartened, the poor old man falls asleep. He sees in a dream the events of his past life, from his enlistment until he became a general. He sees himself as a young lieutenant bringing a prisoner to the emperor, who rewards him with a purse of money. He awakes and remembering his dream, be opens a trunk from which he takes the lieutenant's uniform and finds the purse of money in a pocket, just where he had originally placed it.