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SERGEANT
THOMAS
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CHARLES
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1890,
COPYRIGHT,
BY
CHARLES
SCRIBNER'S
SONS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
PAGE
I.
The
Day
II.
The
Festival
after
Wedding
the
of
Victories
the
14
,
III.
Bonaparte's
IV.
Entrance
Bonaparte's
Madame
Josephinp:
V.
VI.
at
Arrival
in
25
Italy
34
War
the
46
Castiglione
Between
Milan
into
and
Arcole
59
Arcole
VII.
70
After
VIII.
Arcole
88
IX.
The
End
X.
The
Serbelloni
XI.
The
Court
July
14
XII.
XIII.
Bonaparte
XIV.
Passeriano
of
XVIII.
XIX.
Montebello
114
Milan
at
and
123
18th
the
134
Fructidor
143
at
Bonaparte's
XVII.
105
Venice
151
Formio
Campo
XVI.
95
Palace
of
Josephine
XV.
Campaign
the
The
Festivity
An
Entertainment
158
Return
at
France
to
the
at
160
172
Luxembourg
the
Ministry
Foreign
of
Relations
184
Vi
CONTENTS.
CHAPTEB
PAGB
XX.
Bonaparte
TO
XXI.
XXII.
The
Paris
XXIII.
Josephine
XXIV.
Bonaparte
XXV.
Josephine
and
before
the
Egypt
Farewell
193
at
during
Toulon
Year
the
during
the
202
VII
212
Campaign
Egyptian
220
232
Egypt
in
dition
Expe-
Egypt
246
The
Return
XXVI.
The
Meeting
XXVII.
The
Prologue
The
18th
Brumaire
271
The
19th
Brumaire
280
XXVIII.
XXIX.
XXX.
Epilogue
from
Bonaparte
of
of
the
and
18th
Brumaire
Josephine
254
263
292
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTE
CITIZENESS
THE
March
the
of
saviour
and
had
Tallien,
Her
wedding.
with
her, and
been
obliged
and
maps
task
in
should
of
been
than
to
shouting
through
the
postpone
love
after
and
much
husband;
Ragusa
she
with
love
had
in
his
had
is
art
of
well
Memoirs,
lost
"that
had
with
up
door
that
the
he
victory.
she
"
was
Bonaparte
"
graceful
was
of
some
her
pleasing
known,
he
imperative
wife,
She
her.
hours
an
twenty-six,
she
the
it
moreover,
says
only
although
attractive,
freshness, and
of
in
his
than
younger
he
till
the
days
two
himself
of
yet, although
very
lock
urgency
nearly thirty-three,
was
the
plead
to
at
only
forty-eight
to
had
the
witnesses
as
spent
once
she
regicides, Barras
two
had
Bonaparte.
Vendemiaire,
present
these
during
more
and
Beauharnais
IV.),
year
13th
the
husband
excuse,
have
Vent5se,
Convention
the
of
Citizeness
of
name
hero
WEDDING.
Viscountess
(19th
the
THE
the
days
9, 1796
married
And
AFTER
borne
had
his
DAY
two
FOR
BONAPARTE.
as
the
in
love
her
young
Duke
it
is
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
reasons
this
than
feeling.
.
and
character."
But
had
he
his back
11, he
March
Barras
which
confidence
This
actions.
it is
country;
resolution
The
wife
day
same
and
(laterthe
rue
had
so
de
with
gold,and
were
purse
been
in
his
him
hundred
thousand
Lombardy.
He
to
to
of
my
fifm
my
of
those
respects."
in the
to
his
Chantereine
rue
his
happiness
camp,
aide-de-
his
Chauvet,
commissary-general,
thousar;d francs in
forty-eight
it of all
than
Accompanied by
part protested. It
in want
and
Victoire),where
brief.
Junot, and
carried
la
in all
Paris, biddingfarewell
to
been
he left
The
me
inform
interests
best wishes
Republic. My
shown
guarantee
other
riage
mar-
my
tie of attachment
new
no
Citizen
Beauharnais.
duty to
additional
an
have
to
obliged
glory.
marriage
Directory of
Directory has
it my
is
of his
commissioned
Tascher
makes
circumstances
the
the
mander-in-chief
com-
dent
Letourneur, Presi-
to
the Executive
Citizeness
with
my
had
"
was
peril and
tell him
Directory,to
to inform
appointed
Italy. He
this letter
before
days
two
of
in
just been
Army
in love
was
apparently,for
It was,
love, to fly to
on
wrote
of the
Bonaparte
felt it with
he
of the
turn
of the word.
meaning
every
he
loves,
one
sis
nothing is less capable of explanationand analy-
and
to
because
loves
; one
lead
of
francs in drafts,which
was
an
it to
stopped at
the
with
that
army
the
this
fertile
house
modest
had
long
plains of
c"fMarmont's
father,
AFTER
BAY
THE
horses
follows:
letter, as
Chatillon, and
draw
certain
takes
sent
thoughts;
imagine what you
my
happy
for
so
and
from
in that
with
case
see, I
you
that you
am
sure
feelingtowards
heard
any
are
ment
mo-
ever
trying to
you
and
only so
The
far
as
longer any
no
only be
with
When
feel that
illnesses and
they
is
kind
satisfied when
you.
brings me
I think
health
beingsad ; then
separated from
am
sleptwell, I
messenger
well.
have
can
please; but, my
to
for
reasons
that you
destitute of
I fear your
which
with
if I have
me
rested
me
me,
that
until
affect
You
friends,I blame
hard
am
have
have
to
moment
every
frivolous and
are
you
bad, or
answer
Every
you.
your
different when
asks
attorney
tires itself in
dear, it is very
one
from
you
me.
and
wrote
are
merr}^
of
due
from
he
to
wrote
you,
fancy
and
deep feeling.As
have
sums.
soon
my
certain
there
power
are
away
my
is wrung
are
you
further
heart
"I
which
sums
me
from
and
Chanceaux,
at
second
draw
of attorney to
power
sephine
Jo-
sent
March
my
he
Chatillon-sur-Seine, whence
at
a
in
WEDDING.
THE
word
may
any
I can't
that
anger
of
you
men
affect you.
my
but be
little
melancholy,and
above
all,keep
sorrow
CITIZENESS
from
mind
your
remember
and
what
thousand
and
illness from
Ossian
pet, and
my
me,
BONAPARTE.
about
says
that.
kisses from
to
accept
best and
your
you
Write
one
body:
your
most
loving friend."
At
this
with
time, Bonaparte
wife
his
her, while
than
she
was
fierytransports of
her
of
sort
much
was
she
was
but
moderately
with
devoted
frantic
in love
more
him.
touched
husband
idolatry. She
or
whose
At
hero.
in him
of the
to
old
a
marry
general?
had
not
than
; at
felt for
remained
Bonaparte
His
in
bore
in him
of the
in
Chantereine
rue
du
Bac.
Italy.
as
called
Was
"
I wise
Paris
loved
to
former
the
very
nobility.
was
now
anxious
the gutter of
de Stael
she
he
surprise
more
genius,was
not
was
She
Madame
In
woman
violent, strange
likeness
no
later to be
was
joinhim
to go to
rue
Josephine;
fact, with
only eccentricity.Josephine
the
dence
perfectconfi-
courtiers
What
He
fascinated
heart.
inspired her,
man
madman
As
herself,
in
Robespierre,a Republican
had
her
won
sympathy.
she felt
asked
the
was
friend of young
"
herself
moments
regime,she
yet
character
certain
bound
the
by
who
adored
He
near
loved
her
that
son
and
elegance,and
where
her
grace, distinction,and
ami-
BAY
THE
abilityaroused
AFTER
general
pleasurethe opening
seemed,
it were,
as
of
which
admiration.
few
She
with
saw
drawing-rooms,which
ashes
the
and
theatres
the
indifferent
the most
even
WEDDING.
rise from
to
interested in the
was
THE
and
she
life in
social
finds
woman
some
charm.
Meanwhile,
of March
the 29th
of
Italy.
de
tobacco,
lacked
and
or
foot
men
famous
ammunition
mangy
and
the
and
half-naked.
but
can
than
the
The
do
you
large cities
lack
guns
glory.
them
sixtycannon,
drawn
were
artillery-menwent
of
service,for the
no
horses."
It
was
to
"
government
for you.
honor, but
am
owes
Your
you
patience,your
they bring
about
to
much,
lead
you
you
no
vantage,
ad-
into the
plainsin
the world
there
you
will
find
and
provinces;
there
you
will
find
rich
the
buy
to
young
nothing
fertile
but
rode their
do
no
munition
am-
of
Most
had
mules, the
proclamation:
courage,
abundant
belongings
food.
cavalrywas
that
men
dinians
Sar-
provisions,without
their
wretched
and
led rather
those
half
sold
some
insufficient
lame
with
cannon,
bayonets. They
even
Army
and
Austrians
without
pay,
had
shoes, who
of the
without
French,
most
command
on
to
hundi-ed
two
and
on
taken
were
Nice, and
reached
S^gur, "fifty-twothousand
and
by
had
There
"
had
Bonaparte
courage
wealth.
?
"
Soldiers
of
Italy,shall
6'
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
the moment
At
of
in which
forgethis
his ambition
was
last.
to
made
has
none
How
can
such
impressionon
an
Don't
Germinal
all your
dear
think, my
way?
What
it burns
from
the
no
believe
there
you,
is
chance
of
heart.
issue,if
the sole
hand
on
and
loved-
from
my
jealousy,was
A
few
to
out
than
my
If I
life.
am
fear the
life,
curse
is
beating
perfecthappiness
image
your
me
the time
that
love."
be
to
all
now
affectionate
you,
alone, with
ready to
am
soon
was
enough
ecstasy. "By what
were
of my
myself absent
Bonaparte, who
from
more
everything is smiling,except
see
rapture.
heart
my
style!
of events, and
if I
to
away
of
me
thought
I look at
and
robbed
have
What
joy of pouring
delicious
tastingthe
my
adding
I stand
in which
desert
that
only Josephine,away
My
happiness;
no
disgustme,
men
place my
there.
are
by
out
worn
is
You
soul ; you
soul ?
describe !
you
heart.
poor
my
world
my
those
are
feelings
the
as
love, of writing
you
regrets,and tormenting my
letters,
me
did
eager,
received
you
in such
me
so
I have
"
great
hostile armies,
Porto
(April 3, 1796) :
but
Before
paign,
cam-
so
impossible,
the
love.
this letter,dated
wonderful
superiorityof
Bonaparte, though
not
seemed
success
the numerical
was
beginning this
the
confidence
lines from
plunge
art," he
him
goes
of
prey
into
on,
hand
the
a
sort
"have
picion
sus-
and
he
of
you
BAT
THE
how
learned
many
That's
to
get
lands
and
you
read
before
the
Alas
reign!
unclouded, and
countries
these
! the
separate
us
the
heart
of love
sun
these rapturous
That
Fool
away.
How
long
How
press
feebly ex-
which
over
you
for
is seldom
whispers are
of her
nor
fidelity,
I do everything
but
love, and
long
lowed
fol-
soon
doubted
day he
centrate
con-
live for
joinyou.
to
words, which
of
to
To
life.
my
dying
am
by lamentations.
of his wife's
being?
am
emotions
"
faculties?
my
story of
the
you
that I
see
WEDDING.
whole
yourselfmy
Josephine!
I don't
THE
captivateall
to
in
to
AFTER
neither
yet
he
felt
the
"
do
not
me
longer from
my
courage
a
was
when
know
time
I
of the
looked
what
be
she
you,
when
thought of
lot that
the
at
stops the
me
to
one
who
beingloved
that
point.
my
courage
of
that
surprise.
be
may
might
men
But
in
keeps
There
;
and
do
me,
for me,
reserve
now,
it ;
without
the
trouble,that
I
a
thought
she
may
beating of
dejected,robs me
despair. I often
if it
but
terrible misfortunes
love
to
destinymight
Josephine
may
be able to endure
proud
the harm
most
ill,and, above
out
was
my
no
me
I shall not
hold
will not
quiver, with
that my
fate awaits
"
of
used
my
even
tortures
heart, makes
the
courage
to say, Man
can
on
me
of
do
my
soul,
sad
and
fury
and
no
harm
is
CITIZENESS
the
of
torture
BONAPARTE.
hell; it is the
of total annihilation.
image
been
sweet
stop,my
mind
have
good
reason
from
my
is
of
at
Porto
All
he
Maurizio,
The
Albenga.
at
have
painful
longer
the
me
sess
pos-
world
.
sad, I
am
very
I
men.
they separate
two
his dream
closes
his letter
Oneglia;
in
armies
are
The
most
pleased with
suffers
never
the warrior
once
from
near
the other.
much
am
hating them;
aroused
trumpet, and
to outwit
the
sick of
am
Bonaparte'scharacter
suddenly
who
vegetation.
soul is
out, I
if I
as
me
no
for
all its
; my
worn
melancholy.
is
and
pet
for
I shall
crushing
me
love."
man
of
to
seems
that when
tired, my
He
when
heart will be
your
from
It
and
were
vivid
long
reappears.
the
by
thus
"
to-morrow
call
am
at
am
Beaulieu;
he
manoeuvres
very
beat
love
me
like your
your
mind, your
raving;
him
who
loves
yourself,than
life,your
is
nature
that's not
eyes, but
than
yourself;more
But
all.
weak, when
one
be anxious
enough, like
thoughts,
forgive me, I'm
feels keenly, in
your
To
you.
Tallien, my
sincere
regards;
Renard, the
proper
messages
tense, my
Don't
of his boots.
to
;
to
Madame
Ch^teau-
Eugene,
to
Hor-
real love."
April 3, Bonaparte
had
perfectconfidence
in his
DAY
THE
wife
her for
18th
the
received
the
beautiful
and
in
away,
favorite
reads
find
in
it
But
letters
hunting
I have
broke
was
leagues
of
and
rest
cold
as
fancied
I
;
in your
I
that
found
saw
your
vious
pre-
the emotions
give
they
I
senses.
my
the
me
am
friendship.
as
shines
mastered
The
much
death.
one's
devours
one
I am!
too
me
fear
is
wasting another
fire which
am
as
sometimes
absurd
my
wanted
the
by
course,
three hundred
man,
of the
none
how
idea of
last letter is
letters moved
produced
the
your
Your
glance,which
there.
Of
.
tend
pre-
out
worn
I
.
The
after
dishes
pleased.
not
so
am
you
lives, moves,
who
you;
doubt.
writing to
who
afterwards
dear
my
"I
go,
lover
then, the nineteen-year-old
there, without
moment
from
interruptto
you
who
In the
blames
her
to
wrote
and
me,
fatigue. Oh,
and
in the wrong.
am
3d^ he blames
(April 7, 1796):
which
country
jealousof
be
to
work
the
He
Germinal
letter
say, into
you
WEDDING.
suspects her
Albenga,
have
THE
for
her
he
7th,
the
AFTER
chill of
of not
much
devise
"
that
more?
boundless
your
return
is real
You
love
such
cannot
without
thought, your
for
the
in
world, is it necessary
have
and
affection,such
with
inspired me
sharing it,with
reason
to
no
one
your
soul,
can,
in
devotion, inflict
10
CITIZEN
deadly blow.
a
A
.
"
are
of him
worthy
memento,
wishes
my
of my
memento
those
victory,
BONAPARTE.
ESS
who
single,complete
thinks
of you
at
every
moment."
victories
The
about
were
April 12,
amazing.
On
Millesimo.
the
it
follow, swift
to
Montenotte
was
heights of
the
Monte
and
14th,
Zemolo,
the
army
The
horizon
the
be
to
were
of
this unrivalled
lit up
the eternal
seen
broke
Alps.
young
general,pointing to
cry
joy
from
the
and
of
have
we
Mondovi
turned
; on
to
won
his
six
cannon,
of his
crossed
the
The
future
Alps,
of
armistice
Cherasco
many
part of Piedmont
and
prisoners,
men.
You
lacked
yourself with
without
cannon
forced
alone
places; conquered
you
have
killed and
sand
fifteen thou-
wounded
ten
have
everything,you
crossed
marches
bread;
capable
of
have
rivers
without
the richest
captured
everything; you
without
were
"
ranks.
Piedmont.
with
made
them
the
; on
of the
snows
scene
view
thousand
supplied
gained battles
without
shoes
bridges;
often
ouacked
biv-
the
Republican phalanxes
such
extraordinarydeeds.
"
12
BONAPARTE,
CITIZENESS
won't
heart, in my
Take
King Joseph, in
one
from
the
It
"
at
was
Cherasco,
commissioned
for the
me
speediest
of Sardinia,in order to
hours
twenty
be hard
The
to
at which
form
ure
departnotion
of
of the Directory
at
with
the
army
the
end
of
|
present,indignant
was
opinion which
the unfavorable
our
content
reached
after
members
Carnot,
Director
at his house
"
reasons
testifytheir
its leader.
If
tiresome.
postchaiseand
same
popular enthusiasm.
dinner
with
and
to
But
It would
Nice.
hastened
and
King
left in the
hundred
come
in
Austrians
flags. We
Paris
the
assignedthe
he
Junot
Directoryhis
with
possible
peace
my
if the
brother
Flordal, that my
isolate the
Paris
departurefor
Junot's
the 5th of
wings, come,
long,bad, and
side, on
Come,
fatigue
one, but slowly."
his Memoirs, thus speaks of his
adorable
eagerly,my
and
is
the way
here, by my
upset or be hurt
to
were
you
arms
slowly ;
travel
will be
You
you
mies
Bonaparte's ene-
exclaimed, 'Tell
heart, and
there, because
of France, and
Directoryhe
who
had been
to carry
the
there before
brother
that
has
your
he
must
only admirers
sent
from
know
that
friends.'
and
"
saviour
in the
Murat,
draft of the
Joseph and
well
that he
armistice
Junot.
to
Paris,arrived
Josephineasked
of
BAY
THE
all
them
husband's
from
not
the
most
In
obscurity
regret
to
her
position
of
glory.
confidence
and
THE
minute
success.
Vendemiaire,
the
AFTEB
already
princess.
few
days
Citizeness
in
in
the
the
her
concerning
details
13
WEDDING.
he
stepped
had
did
Bonaparte
star
of
Republic
the
of
man
she
held
II.
THE
FESTIVAL
OF
THE
had
BONAPARTE'Sglory
work
the
was
of
one
Every
one
the
in
known
was
of
day
shrouded
in
than
his
how
his
family,
the
public
liis
talked
about.
in
first
his
absolutely
Napoleon
his
despatches
of
knowledge
which
to
Directory
went
with
their
hands.
Army
own
first the
of
Moniteur
Italy
the
last
was
printed
14
without
of
page
the
to
effect
The
At
first
the
account
and
of
the
his
build
to
mentioned
the
to
of
number
the
May
him
this
artist.
an
pedestal
of
success
It
of
army,
see
10,
one
the
hero
reception
Of
himself
we
emotion.
especial
no
getting
the
more
character,
But
Directory,
made
was
spelled.
proclamations
work
of
origin
nothing.
art
played
anything
fortune,
the
in
had
young
he
part
knew
his
this
whose
none
beginnings,
In
the
pronounced
was
knew
equalled
ever
but
Paris
in
successes.
about
and
Vend^miaire,
name
unexpected
from
say,
Josephine
details
only
mystery;
feeling
Even
and
for
asking
was
who
man
swift
might
one
The
surprise.
such
at
been,
instant.
an
profound
amazed
been
of
VICTORIES.
was
1796,
the
the
on
that
flags
FESTIVAL
THE
OF
15
VICTORIES.
THE
-.ft
"
at
which
spoke
thus
ceremony
Moniteur
Josephine was
"
The
The
present.
received
Directory
the
by
Republicans
Sardinians,
the
The
Austrian
the
in
and
Mondovi.
at
of War,
Minister
from
officer who
presenting the
precursors
The
officer then
air which
modest
of the French
with
spoke
characterize
name
would
shed
the last
the
Republic, in
behalf
of the
of
heroes
President
He
touching.
him
but half
an
gave
as
it
added
was
to
manifested
In
her
Abrantds
by
two
Madame
of the
offered
fraternal
dignityof
the
the
kiss.
of
session,which
of
sounds
The
1795.
tion
emo-
an
his words
moving.
of
the
more
officer a sword
brave
This
they
of
enforcement
Directoryrepliedwith
of the
rendered
which
liberty.
in defence
and
that
swore
of their blood
drop
Republic.
of his fellow-soldiers he
In the
the
worthy
peace
and
lasted
imposing
military music
the
interesting Memoirs,
speaks of
the
Bonaparte
effect
and
produced
Madame
principalornaments
the
on
that
Tallien,who
of this
of
Duchess
day
were
patrioticfes-
16
CITIZENESS
tival.
Madame
"
charming.
Bonaparte," she
As
...
flower
in the
BONAPARTE.
for Madame
Tallien,she
of her wonderful
dressed
''
says,
still
was
then
was
Both
beauty.
were
of
which
was
antiquity,
the heightof elegance,and
possiblefor the middle of
that time
at
as
regardedas
the
sumptuously as was
day. Junot must
surely have been very proud to
such charming women,
when
to two
give his arm
left the
they
then
was
and
had
strikingmartial air ; on
that day he wore
of a colonel
a magnificent uniform
of hussars (the uniform
of Berchini),and all that the
man,
young
richness
of such
had
brave
been
had
dress could
employed
who
messenger,
which
stained
Madame
he
not
Junot,
one
arm
to
those
flags,
worthy
and
young
the wounds
of the army
this formal
he
and
Abrant^s
were
fashionable
numberless.
of
Madame
Tallien
Maria
genre
describes
anxious
to
beauties.
he
of
the
scended
de-
Luxembourg." Would
hussars, with Josephine on
palace of
charming subject of
thus
to
of the
colonel
as
occasion
Tallien, and
Madame
staircase
staircase of the
who
the
On
gave
the
of
make
to
to
stillpale from
was
on
general,especially
other
add
represented.
his
most
the
see
"
the
on
picture?
excitement
the young
The
They surged
The
of
crowd,
the
the two
says,
pressed for
Duchess
hero and
throng,"she
and
the
other, on
"
was
better
FESTIVAL
THE
view.
!
How
Long live
Long live
!
poor
'
Yes, yes,'said
'
certainlyOur
Lady
fat marketwoman
this occasion.
beauty on
much
was
"With
these
Arnault,
"
to the
too
there, dressed
various
in
on
the
receive
the
heads,
united
on
the
than
more
that
pride
most
I found
remarkable
without
some
says,
"
myself
women
of
pleasure that
had
proud
the
their
out
ful
beauti-
about
to
three
honor
of
accompany
first performance of
was
seated
the
the
to
Theatre
that it
all
victory." The
the
once
the
derful
won-
them
like the
looked
to
Tallien
at
bring
Directory was
her and
confess,"he
fresh,
tering
lovelyMay day, en-
celebrate
to
Telemaque
to
as
way
very
will
rivals," says
I still recall
escortingJosephine, was
Lesueur's
her
becomingly,wearing
where
Madame
Recamier.
Madame
agreeableexpression,
such
poet, who
young
Bonaparte,
her
: they
battle-flags
spring months
phine's
Jose-
figure,and
their
room
narian.,
Sexage-
features,the
advantagesmost
flowers
is
her
beautiful.
was
of
was
she
of
regularity
of her
grace
she
the
sceptre of popularity
the
for
women
although
yet, thanks
she
two
'
produced by
and
Tallien
to
"
Madame
admired, shared
Madame
with
effect
the
people.
is kind
She
of the Victories.'
describes
also
the
shouted
The
who
'
is !
pretty she
how
Bonaparte !
Citizeness
'
And
Bonaparte !
General
aide-de-
he is !
young
17
VICTORIES.
THE
'
camp
OF
Feydeau.
not
without
between
time, and
I recall
"
some
the
two
it is not
the fact
those
18
were
feelings
for beauty and
I should
At
for
He
I shall
which
all
by
and
zeal
my
at
use
some
be to die in its
such
to receive
no
his
10
on
was
able
even
circumstances,
of
be
to
shall
motto
generalwho
Republican
to
and
adorn
to
all
themselves,
always
the 10th
be
of
redound
them
make
Hence
the
imaginationof
except of
the
the
ideas
ought
praise.
to the
of
ceremony
brilliant and
more
With
that
with
glory
May
the
new
impressive.
It
May,
formallyreceived the
that Bonaparte
that
expressed
it were,
as
insufficient;they decided
gloriousday
I have
government.
festivals should
was
the
victories,and
seemed
encouragement
every
ai^xious to
of their
nity
opportu-
every
government.
beginning. My
devotion
suspicionsof
were
of
thoughtthat
ardent
an
esteem
support."
Directors
The
the
to the
For
''
disgustingpassions,
destruction of the Republic
force
the
its
displayat
commonwealth
French
of the
and
the most
the
tendingequallyto
perfectRepul)-
able to add
and
amid
it established
certainly
was
Directory,May
been
nothing has
it
whom
in his."
to the
written
wife, but
in his
Tallien
not
was
had
devotion
It
enthusiastic
man
young
I admired
whom
time
long
glory.
loved
that time
lican.
and
natural for
have
Bonaparte
BONAPARTE,
CITIZENESS
made
the
the
won
a
battle
of
Lodi,
deep impression
populace.
bridgeover
None
thought
on
"
the
of anything
20
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
feet
high.
each
about
led
There
it four
to
sixty feet
broad.
At
and
the
lions,
were
circle
"
limits of the
formed
was
cerempny
which
between
the
connected
were
pedestalin
the middle
the
of
the
statue
and
in the other
was
William
arose
trophies,the
the
other
the
held
about
in
of the
gratefulcountry.
in
the
oak
morning,
one
the
of
number
fourteen
laurel
the
The
covered
with
with
of the
these
fourteen
sections
of
disabled
veterans
in
lips.
leaves
name
nounced
artilleryan-
festival.
in fourteen
armies
in
of
and
her
to
and
salvo
Guard,
forward
palm,
distribute
to
were
National
banners, marched
certain
On
statue.
raised
beginning of the
Champ de Mars were
Parisian
one
burning in
were
hand
the
the
on
the
one
altar, were
an
the Directors
ten
On
which
At
of flowers.
Perfumes
military trumpet
Finally,on
arranged
were
hung, like
high tree on which
captured battle-flags.Near
by, on
of them
one
as
of the
holding a wand,
stood
pedestals,
Each
to
served
flagswere
festoons
by
Tell's cap.
which
cannon
cannon,
by
devoted
space
risingground appeared
Liberty seated amid various military
hand resting on
the Constitution,
one
with
trophies,
each
of
the
describingthe
barriers
The
foot
the
steps
of
flightsof steps,
its
slopes
tents.
arms
and
sections, representing
Republic.
was
or
To
added
wounded
FESTIVAL
THE
soldiers,and
their wounds.
received
of the
of
Public
and
ardor.
warlike
Few
documents
of the
societyof
It
nature
their
with
homage
to
could
man,
We
benefits,and
of
love
fitlyunite
more
what
services.
watches
steps; their
our
notions
every
be
can
exist
French
people
render
fitting
by the
loved
virtues
What
being.
hearts?
to
the
of
means
Feeble, without
in
announce
the
the
life is but
our
earth,
Intelligence which
human
only by
the
verdure, promises
creatures
insensible
is
when
moment,
festival, to
all
tastes
manity.
time, of hu-
same
Avhen
anew,
and
Tyrtseus.
speech, which
this
and
all
ideas and
anew,
flowers
solemn
by
At
"
the
at
born
talents
and
country
the
in turn
of
this
as
and,
universe
this
the
blew
sermon
beneficent
the
the
gather, in
military glory
reflect the
harvests, when
over
time
be
to
language
makes
that
begins thus
seems
rich
was
well
of war,
adorning itself
us
It
so
full of words
mittee
Com-
of the
celebrated
He
speak,
to
so
member
pastoral.
dent
Presi-
shepherd'spipe. Sensibility
mingled
the
with
speech was,
in
they had
in which
spoke first,as
former
Safety
of
of
The
militaryeclogue.
trumpet
His
place them
to
army
Carnot
Directory.
21
VICTORIES.
taken
been
representingthe
the section
had
care
THE
OF
What
citizen,
feelingof gratitude
a
long
continual
day
support,
series
of
interchange
our
parents'
our
members
of what
;
we
from
are
them
ourselves
we
and
receive
of
what
our
first
is out-
22
After
us."
of
side
BONAPARTE.
ESS
CITIZEN
this exordium
the
comes
usual
employed with
said
Carnot, "does
sphere of
needy in
the
his
of aid and
confine
not
hovel, and
by
further
greedy
soul
forth
to
narrow
find
the
the balm
it
from
manity,
gratitude.Huthy practice! how pitiable
knows
who
the
though alreadyrewarded
feelingof benevolence,
the
is
Sensibility,"
pours
recompense
delicious
"
itself to
it goes
consolation, and
how
the
emphasis.
familycircle
much
so
thee not !
"
After this
and
the
its children
arms
can
their
stem
to defend
its
independence ; nothing
impetuosity: they
ford
nature
itself has
fragmentsof
to exterminate
vomited
three
set, and
armies
the hordes
after
boundaries
victories,
they enlargeour
rivers,capture
to
pursue
host
the
barriers
the
over
of traitors and
of
of
ice
about
brigands
forth
stoppedonly by an honorable
then, scaling the Alps and the Apennines,
obstacle, and
;
they dash
across
are
the Po
and
by
the
the Adda.
geniusand
The
ardor of
the
audacity
THE
FESTIVAL
of his leaders,who
them
carry
of
form
with
out
forces with
OF
their
calmness,
dangersat
plans with
energy,
and
wisdom
arrangingtheir
now
"
into
plunging
now
23
VICTOBIES.
THE
midst
the
of their
the head
companions."
Carnot concluded
his speech with an expression of
gratitudeto the soldiers of the Republic. Accept,"
"
he
this
exclaimed, "accept
O
gratitude,
nothing left
for liberty
?
national
is
Why
who
in
died
hearts
our
Republic will
have
we
here
glory and
your
which
crowns
this
enclosure
it
by
you
Later, there
new
receive
the
dancing
was
the
on
the
poet Lebrun,
then called.
day
Adorn
of
It
ran
undying
to be
Tlie
"
enemy
wave.
fastened
has
follows
de
was
a
great
hymn,
the
Lebrun,
Mars
as
half
occasion
he
was
"
memory,
thyselfwith
prodigiesof
Pindar
"
as
triumphal
Champ
bers,
mem-
successes
until
"
and
banners."
to your
by
armies
of your
people orders
the French
The
us.
owes
some
phalanxes whose
and
in proclaiming
first,
the
pay
future, advance
in the
see
what
them
to
invincible
ye
will at
heroes
ye
recognition. Republican
its
representedin
memory,
your
You
to
repay
come
but
Republic I
the
your
of
armies
of
testimonial
solemn
our
our
find
laurels !
it hard
to believe
warriors.
disappearedin flightor
has
drunk
the
black
24
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
"Under
Let
the
With
Let
us
fresh
nectar
let
drink,
and
of
has
of
cup
to
the
Bacchus?
glory
!
sparkling
drink
us
mistress
Faithful
the
friends,
fill, my
us
charms
what
laurels,
Victory,
French
.
"
Liberty,
Rejoice
The
had
in
Alps
have
And
have
not
have
happened
over
festivities
our
brilliant
our
The
Eridanus
We
preside
their
able
been
recounts
seen
at
to
exploits
bowed
to
the
heads,
defend
seas
what
was
Milan
our
going
the
kings.
swift
on
conquests,"
in
Paris.
etc.,
What
etc.
III.
BONAPAKTE
THE
and
young
fire, and
with
South,
of
free
had
They
without
and
Full
and
gay
of
but
their
preferred
their
millionnaire.
not
for
had
for rank
care
not
so
military.
trade,
Not
the
of
worthy
their
but
of
uniforms
had
no
victory.
ism,
hero-
they
were
for
passion.
the
their
which
25
of
and
career
They
luxury
fear
and
their
miother,
everything
they
l)attle,
military
a
to
the
and
talking
for
one
vocation,
lution
Revo-
the
only
The
money.
despised
only
in
unselfishness
jealousy
the
and
proud
brave
to
but
of
French
respect
themselves,
or
after
day
their
expression
were
inclined
rather
no
the
magnificent
on
ragged
They
of
the
were
their
of
"
men
liad
fii'e,
They
generous,
yet
They
country.
was
merits
amusing
ambitious
not
the
self-denial,
their
did
eyes
imagination,
bragging,
not
and
of
their
as
short
faces,
faults.
its
terrible
kind,
sunhurned
mischief,
air.
These
full
young,
"
made
just
was
were
tlie men,
hopes.
their
and
wit
All
officers, and
had
Milan
into
entrance
MILAN.
which
army
enthusiasm.
the
commander,
INTO
valiant
triumphant
its
ardor,
ENTRANCE
of
was
danger,
26
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
lived in it
In the redoubt
"
aloud,
If the little
"
that way,
retreat."
Since
nothing
had
who
They
They
Barefooted,without
"
marched
All
are
were
the
glory with
in this
with
its
city,which
is
magnificentmarble
its
Viso
of
Bassano,
The
air is
of the
step,"
"
of
Good
shod.
soldier.
poor
sort
Milan.
at
cowardly alarms,
clad and
a
parte's
Bona-
They
earthly paradise,
cityis surrounded
country : meadows, woods,
Monte
with
"
same
The
enchanting views.
remarkably fertile
fields,gildedby the sun ; in
huge chain of the Alps, the
by
to
been
shoes,
without
bread, deaf
in
us
had
happy
very
in
us
see
never
compared
great happiness to
were
women,
be
nourished, well
well
now
shoes
to
lead
legionariesthere
long been
so
will
that he
could
that
seen
grenadier answered
Gascon
Caesar's
march
could
one
men,
promise
soldiers.
were
such
through Europe."
ment.
ele-
their
were
of
twenty thousand
With
if it
as
and
covered
are
so
Monte
pure
and
the distance
Rosa
with
of
summits
as
far
snow
limpid
that
scarcelymore
seem
the
which, from
the mountains
as
the nearest
points
dozen
fifteen
leagues away,
appears
than
or
three.
The
their
behind
heads, and
it.
now
they
were
to
see
the
sun
set
28
that
perfectlyclear
on
This
campaign
That
"They
must
"
there
time,
no
she
of
His
and
were
of
The
can
derstand
un-
people
they
has
one
is
on
are
satisfied?"
for
for
you."
and
the
me
more
of her.
demand
devised
in the
us
to-dayfor
us
woman,
anything great ;
an
wonderful
in him
and
aide-de-camp,
admiration
I shall
more
example."
Bonaparte possessedto
set
must
his
suppose
smiled
has not
the
that
Such, dear
it.
favors
for me,
she does
who
parte
anything yet," replied Bona-
seen
are
despiseher
our
filled with
brilliant
situation."
Are
be
I'ortune
future.
Paris?
those
our
you
in
one
be recorded
to
asked
us
haven't
They
In
ought
pictureof
Any
another.
to
most
instruction,and
faithful
about
saying
to
It
evening Bonaparte
Marmont, what do
"Well,
triumph
one
it will
father, is
him.
it is
It is full of
read.
famous, and
to
been
have
known.
been
them
owe
from
simply
gone
ever
we
place would
else in his
has
forever
Bonaparte'sname
General
"
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
revived
was
one
of the
would
degree the
have
art
said that
of Plutarch.
great men
ported
genius,fed on the historyof the ancients, transAll his words
times.
antiquityinto modern
when
actions, even
they appeared most simple,
arranged for effect. He thought continually
Paris,
as
feelingwhich
mixture
used
Alexander
he
of admiration
was
and
to
anxious
think
to
of
Athens.
inspirewas
surprise. With
an
a
un-
ENTRANCE
BONAPARTE'S
audacity, and
rivalled
who
gambler
united
this
positiveand
poet and
the
he
to the
passed
do with
So
command.
banker
such
men
visions
sublimest
heroic
is inferior to
he had
as
society as
militaryspiritwas
army
French
to
alities
generIt
when
times
once
under
his
cannot
ours
the
richest
simple sub-lieutenant,when
every
in
lous
fabu-
him,
rivalled
strengthof this unlay in this,that they had confidence.
are
knights by birth. The Republic,
he believed
The
and
trivial details.
Ossian
originalfigure.
an
humdrum
easily understand
the
most
and
general's
great merit lay in perceivingat
he could
what
the
"
generallyincompatiblequalities
such
him
persons,
dreamt
time
in Bonaparte
the wildest
from
tounding
as-
than
rarer
were
He
same
from
and
between
that makes
The
the
at
humblest
harmony
There
complementary
preciserealities
the most
is
most
imaginationwith
practicalman.
adored
mathematics;
is this
mind.
and
heart
Nothing
boundless
scheming
acted; he
he
of
different
two
human
the
of his age.
man
combination
the
of
knowledge
a
stakes
in
spiritof
adventurous
the
29
MILAN.
INTO
in them.
The
far from
more
their
the
them
changing their character, only made
As
enthusiastic.
soon
as
they had received
baptisms of fire,the Jacobins became paladins,
Sans
Culottes
aspirationsof
Charlemagne
found
The
Crusaders.
the
or
themselves
of
Godfrey
of
filled with
companions
Bouillon
were
the
of
not
30
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
braver
there
irresistible fire
an
revolutionarychivalry,the nobility
in that
was
What
ardent.
more
or
"
the battle-field."
quicklyon
Stendhal
knew
how
describe
to
of the
this
of
When
M.
he reached
Robert
whose
with
shoes
These
he
blacked
He
the
the
on
franc
had
fastened
found
he
her
lest his
so
good
left.
little,well-
had
no
soles at
the marchioness,
was
in such
been
detected
charming, and
have
to
self
him-
were
uppers
shoes
poverty should
May 15,
was
by
cordially
most
Robert.
dressed
He
carefullywith
very
tells
marchioness,
only the
but, I repeat,the
of
needed
he
what
own,
received
was
uneasiness
of his
cords
and
by
but
by
billeted.
been
great care,
pairof
all.
he had
he
which
morning
invited to dinner
was
house
the
in
Milan,
of
Army
of its officers,
a M,
of the handsomest
one
accurately
most
piece into
hands
their
it
was
every
penny
he
in the Avorld.
At
that
with
loved
for the
corruption;
sake
sole attraction.
The
in those
days when
deadlier
the
there
one
was
money
pleasurewas
counted
battles, the
were
of love, and
desire of
combed
thoroughly honey-
not
on
greater
the
not
most
short life.
eagerness
the
keen
The
for
ENTRANCE
BONAPARTE'S
The
amusement.
tlieybraved
more
feverishlythey pursued
be
could
What
could
what
for; but
not
and
love
ttieyentered
moment
care
ardor.
the utmost
the
Moreover, from
more
agreeable.
bought, like
be
not
life
they did
for money
bought
death, the
makes
what
31
MILAN.
INTO
Milan,
the soldiers
to which
been
to
fat
enjoyeda comfort
strangers. They began
grow
they had
the
Lombard
people.
everywhere
but
the French
that
of their
an
his
time
same
The
.
beneath
of
the
at
did
J^now that
people.
It is
insolent
monarch
throughout a
defeated
compelled to
make
war
nation
to
posted
was
Salicetti
and
hatred
harm
of
that
would
but
19th,
long held
so
cause
sure
decree
to
the death
to
Lom-
France
kings is
the
tyranny."
not
victorious
spread
terroi*
republicanarmy,
againstthe kings
with
fraternity
great
the
The
sworn
sworn
despot who
yoke
announced
was
People, in
has
Scala,
liberty-
new
Republic.
Republic, which
French
bardy
it
feast
national
illuminated, and
has
tj'rants,
army
18th, a
proclamation,signedby Bonaparte
The
the
The
Societyof
I. of the
city was
this
"
of the
name
Year
dated
the
planted,and
was
in the theatre of La
concert
lit.
brilliantly
was
in the
was
32
CITIZENESS
seemed
Bonaparte
of his
"
victoryhe
Seeing this
hard
to
These
generalunder
the most
hottest
Directory. The
excited
him, had
justbeen
the
one
of
the
by
before
to
was
part of the
to
Peninsula; while
to
was
forth
set
be commanded
of the
of those
any
resignation.He
to be
the
by
armies,
confided
the
conquer
of the
Kellerman.
this arrangement
him
destroyhis power
the Directorya letter
of his
fame.
glory,and
May 14, he
this passage:
to
to
robbed
would
to
wrote
to
southern
other, that
General
had
henceforth
into two
was
to
his victorious
to
divided
to be
Italywas
madness
Directory,that
him, and
North,
Paris his
to
informed
Army
of
sent
have
his heart."
determination
the
to
by
umphal
tri-
it would
tormented
evening
very
experiencedphilosopher
love
due
anger
the handsome
Romana,
passionswhich
the
jealousy,and
Porta
the
even
the two
were
was
of
for
guess
at the moment
happy, yet even
suffering.Stendhal has said
young
arch
been
BONAPARTE.
and
taining
con-
"I
different
without
I had
generals.
consultingany
one
I should
I have
gainedsome
I
superiorforces,when
was
have
was
advantagesover
in absolute
the
been
methods.
conducted
I have
as
swift
as
my
need
trust
thought.
...
in
campaign
failed if
another's
greatly
of everything,
me,
my
I feel that
BONAPABTE'S
it
much
takes
it
But
The
same
to
owe
and
also
and
glory,
Believe,
Thus
his
that
successful
career,
was
it
his
wrung
wife
to
and
weeks
starting.
she
Paris
thought
by
this
him,
and
Perhaps,
does
not
love
for
marred
the
he
thought
"
because
come
some
joy
else.
one
of
his
beginning
not
the
renown.
sorely
of
no
news
his
heart,
his
Days
come.
is
triumph.
of
besought
This
you.
the
most
had
she
of
loss
which
in
some
you."
much
received
he
with
very
so
had
she
yet
but
passed,
He
danger,
the
him
thought
and
diminish
the
with
heart.
passionate
join
at
to
know
who
lose,
not
worthy
will
all
brought
not
was
in
general,
had
be
letter
begun
to
threatened
which
Possibly
have
nothing
inspire
you
Carnot
to
fatigue, toil,
I
pride.
feelings."
my
anxious
continue
to
the
command
of
letter;
and
of
very
fettered.
be
desire
which
am
months
moreover,
esteem
of
to
not
"
two
ambition
privately
this
you
statement
wrote
thus
week,
he
day
to
of
charge
this
you
closed
which
the
to
write
38
MILAN.
INTO
to
courage
me
exposes
in
ENTRANCE
"
her
haps
per-
detained
tormenting
in
IV.
Bonaparte's
MADA]viE
Memoirs
heart;
but
like
being
of
destitute
forgotten;
it
repress
of
blood,
He
the
of
lust
feeling
in
in
saying,
"
No
Without
Like
Thou
with
Lamartine
hate
an
eagle,
hadst
reigning
but
And
talons
34
glance
to
Yet
thy
probably
knew
liow
to
for
his
feeling
the
to
seems
every
not
are
of
ties
ambition
over
thick
and
other
justified
armor.
didst
live
it."
to
measure
us
should
to
think.
solitary heaven,
wherewith
embrace
be
"
love, thou
a
opinion
we
inspires
recognized
beneath
in
yet
affectionate
an
soul.
beat
should
anxious
too
This
that
was
Doubtless
without
and
he
finally prevailed
man's
feeling
that
nature."
this
human
heart
by
exaggerated.
glory
his
was
scarcely
of
rights
strangely
us
He
parte's
Bona-
loved,
being
perhaps,
hampered
sort.
the
and
curious
believe
which
nature
created,
was
to
respect
our
loving
else,
be
to
any
of
part
possible
her
about
speak
to
other
completely.
fame
own
is
every
he
or
it
in
says,
ought
if
of
when
that
say
that
need
the
with
in
us
"
italy.
in
REMUSAT
DE
MADAME
arrival
the
earth,
36
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
into
hands,
our
in front
of his wife's
him, broke
with
in his hands.
suffered
pale, and
he said to me,
The
'
from
keenest
the
of
alarm.
be
easily
far
so
war,
frightfully
grew
'Marmont,'
distracting
him
only more
ture
impetuous na-
enthusiastic.
His
moved
passionsat
perpetualrestlessness
by
and
two
his love
in which
"
unfaithful.'
from
love, rendered
his
He
my
excitement
Bonaparte
by
one
of
he lived
once,
glory.
made
"
The
him
ready victim
of
there
impatient,imperious,despotic quality.
He
was
an
could
than
no
tender
the
understand
more
failure to
the
passion.
win
Josephine ; consequently,Josephine
him.
Rather
lover
than
but
hours
forty-eight
and
satiated.
to
such
The
had
careless
of
her husband
the
at
been
our
been
the
for
was
one
Josephine, in
and
hasten
he
had
their
he
"In
that
his
to
passed
marriage,
being
unaccustomed
surprisedthan
more
says,
this
very exact
love, which
his
nature
presence
surprisethan
and
speaking of
touched
embarrassment
must
feelingsof Josephine
time, when
only
summoned
opinion,given a
Napoleon'slove
said to be
resistance
aroused,without
perhaps
different
this
her since
Creole,who
transports,was
delightedby them.
M. Lanfrey has, in
account
with
desires
He
husband,
his
woman's
victory.
In
has
heart,
showed
she
love.
felt
The
BONAPARTE'S
MADA3fE
commanding
and
indolent
nature
feel without
not
to
Avhich
genius
very
she
exercised
sort
of fascination
her
over
than
more
could
yielding
whether
once
and
she
before
self-confidence manifested
the
traordinary
ex-
general's
in the
words
insignificant
most
of
result
young
easilybe
destined
Without
doubt
she
but,
"she
preferredenjoying
Paris
to
joininghim."
her
leave
to
Paris,
affectionate but
She
nature.
withal
liked
time
and
crowded, the
were
and
old
palace of
regime, which
the
Josephine.
the
of a Sexagenarian:
made
almost
Paris
poet Arnault
''The
its prey,
absolute
animation,
at that
indifference
were
the
things pleased
Terror, which
was
was
courtly manners
all these
"
city,
appearing anew,
were
Directory,
As
brilliant
drawing-rooms, which
life
frivolous
theatres,which
The
ter
mat-
her
lightand
amusing
in
kindly,amiable,
of its former
charming.
serious
relatives,and
somewhat
that
triumphs
was
to her
parte's
Bona-
by
points out,
husband's
her it
suited
yet busy
her
To
Marmont
as
children, her
admirably
so
flattered
much
Avas
early successes,
in
piercing
amiable
Avhich
terror, and
secret
his
in
glowing
saw
37
ITALY.
IN
eye
wondered
it she
ARRIVAL
followed
with
by
long
so
period
regard
to
of
thing
every-
made
the
up
for
the
five Directors
38
CITIZEN
BONAPARTE.
ESS
had
always be
softer
place where
the
and since it
what
was
open
The
manners.
and
authorityrules, a court
to women,
they had introduced
Republicans began to abandon
"
to
that
see
gallantrywas
and
politics,
that
in employing it as
a
might be shown
The entertainments
in which
retainingpower.
the empire from which
resumed
they had been
the
of
long reign
clearlythat
those
in power
of
than
that
tellingher
the
had
war
thought
less of
not
of
way
ladies
driven
showed
destroying
imitatingthem.
Convention,
the
indeed
skill
during
will
Bonaparte's
that
her
place was
only begun ;
friends
never
in
not
Italy;
leave
the victorious
his
wife
was
of
fightor
nas,
says:
intended
not
take
the disorderliness
in his excellent
"Madame
for not
April, at
to
her
camp.
M.
Aube-
Bonaparte
has
been
hastening to Italy in
husband's
cised
severely critithe
first summons,
month
of
before
the
excessive
of the
haste.
Republic,it was
wives followingthe
general's
wars
Certainly,in
not
usual
armies.
the
to
see
Prudence
early
the
and
BONAPABTE'S
MADAME
obvious
for
regulations,
have
We
undertake
the
fault
The
attention
at the
seemed
used
wife
to
they had
proper
for
wife.
Madame
husband's
"Murat
the
young
showed
me
to
hero
from
of
did not
passion.
Madame
urged
this letter,as
have
well
have
take
their
to
imitation
had
not
pared
pre-
regardedas
to
his
seriouslyher
says
letter in which
speedy departure;
as
of
ionable
the fash-
Arnault
As
they
nevertheless
husband
Bonaparte
her
smiled
sure,
sort, which
might
absurd
Bonaparte
torrents
gave
de Beauharnais
of this
paid
should
writing
hyperbolesin
Versailles
lovers,but
of
habit
the
for love
societyof
be
but
Ilelo'ise^
Nouvelle
cessor.
prede-
probably
To
vulgar.
In
had
husband
would
way
was
wrote
its
probablyhave
That
manner.
formed
not
him, he
to
regime, who
old
little
the
to
hesitation.
urgent than
more
that
in
them
read
to
the
such
come
Josephine,would
styleand
his
love
to
of the
men
to
to
demand
indifference
in which
wife
of letters,each
mass
great
word,
extreme
an
tolerate
not
persuade his
order to
in
towns,
once
charm."
could
Bonaparte
as
at
uncertainty of
campaign, was
well
as
of Josephine
thus
out
course.
image
an
start
Italian
make
a
in the
bivouac
to
war,
To
fatiguesand
to
carving
heroine.
Roman
of
39
ITALY.
IN
forbade such
reasons,
intention
no
as
ABBIVAL
all he
had
she
written
since
40
CITIZEN
which
feeling,
in this
hear
to
seem
her
it true
her
with
Madame
de
make
moved, it
Bonaparte
proof
ardent
than
passion
her
to
join a
there
Rousseau's
escape
force
letter
which
"
her
of
by
here and
I ask
and
very
Even
other
no
Josephine
which
there
at
eloquence
to
loved
For
was
her.
to
feeling." Yes;
real
wrote
him
"
if he
and
of love.
who
are
is to
compelled
her
from
haps
Per-
madly.
of Jean
truth
and
induced
last
at
conviction
she
as
IVIemoirs
every
full
he
husband
traces
her
in
only for
was
style,emotion
volcanic
sincere
are
her
dispositionto deny
Tortona, June
I hear
'
and
affe(;tion,
some
the
the
pose
sup-
smiles, How
unfavorable
every
cannot
knew
But
'
'"
with
felt
Bonaparte
she
'
tenderness, is nevertheless
he
Josephine
times
is !
acknowledgment
this
dagger!
accent, while
Remusat,
and
of
trace
Othello's
Creole
readingone passage in
effort to allay the suspicions
more
Fear
funny Bonaparte
Napoleon,
jealousy.
which
any
once
of
devoid
not
was
which
say
BONAPARTE.
ESS
Jacques
still in this
and
accents
of
manifest.
IV. of the
My
life is
makes
alive ; I have
Josephine.
perpetual nightmare.
breathingdifficult.
lost
more
than
life,more
A
am
black
no
than
sentiment
pre-
longer
happi-
MADAME
than
more
ness,
BONAPABTE'S
in
Write
to
console
don't
pages
He
will
you
This
you.
without
me
is the
answer.
your
that
only thing
You
ill ; you
are
with
are
you
hope.
will
bring
that
41
ITALY.
IN
almost
am
least.
distressed
see
then
in the
me
; I have
me
ten
me
courier.
Paris, and
hours
can
peace
sendingyou
am
ARRIVAL
love
child
and
overwhelms
thought
me.
in fact
to nothing had
[Symptoms which amounted
delayed Josephine's departure for Italy,and her
husband
reproached himself for having been unkind
to
her.]
know
how
have
to
set
treated
myself rightin
been
blaming you
been
ill there.
for
filled
you
have
reason,
and
I shall
from
are
which
you
in my
child
may
for
me
with
and
you
danger,I
Paris.
has
my
in
As
hope
see
you,
we
until I
see
have
serious
that
it is.
I should
always
opposed
my
been
dear
that she
without
am
again the
start
senger
mes-
until
you
the matter
If there
were
at
fortunate
wishes, and
die
the
love
to hold
I suppose
since I think
for me,
malady
may
you?
I
my
forebodings
you
I
fate
am
how
warn
...
better
It is
that
of
Hortense;
little.
consolation,rest, and
whom
hours, and
of
me
My
is to
have
you
robbed
recovery.
times
console you
explainto
no
not
I have
eyes.
it.
taking care
sent
thousand
has
me
all I ask
is
have
you
dear
my
recover
for two
arms
together. Who
that
is
that
gloomy
so
me,
never
there
your
I do
Forgive
which
ill that
so
you
any
for
once
never
to-dayI
am
42
CITIZEN
when
wounded
alone
unable
appetite,
because
throw
everythingto
Scott
Walter
of
and
love
who
time, is
certainlyconfirm
that I love you
convinced
you
that
that it has
woman
hour
that to
that you
are
and
that
you,
absorb
see,
that
day
abandoned
that
be
as
that
when
of
quoted
"
that you
I do not
think
to think
grace,
see
lieart has
soul
arms,
as
other
you
are,
that
you
no
not
my
is in your
shall have
beauty,and
soul
are
to
of you
of any
you,
my
My
certain
is devoted
his
above
are
you
whole
you
served,
pre-
temperament
my
my
part
moment
strength,
my
my
"
been
imagined
thoughtsthat
no
has
liave
mind
you
brings
Arcadian."
an
all lack
they
all yours
the
that
do not
to you
every
passes
and
please me
wholly
my
me
it
commanders
we
me
can
entered my
never
intelligence
; that
have
tell
more
honor,
that
no
letter
to
more
bride
that of
as
the
dear, do remember
for
have
in
queror,
language of the conat his pleasure and
celebrated
most
are
The
no
I and
any
care
pictureof
Avar.
enthusiastic
as
his
disposingstates
was
defeatingthe
can
should
curious
in
as
me
says,
gives a
fieryin
The
correspondence with
his
as
otherwise
! you
victory,because
pleasure:
you
for
With
You
for
exist
not
annihilated.
for it
country.
my
will
been
care
you
sensitive.
am
sleep,having
to
in glory,in
friendship,
than
BONAPARTE.
ESS
corners
nate
subordigence,
intelli-
body
changed
or
44
CITIZENESS
delicate
"
BONAPARTE.
in his curious
matter
and
witty
evidentlyflattered by
inspiredso wonderful a man
Josephine was
which
she
treated
althoughshe
than
he
much
she
growing
was
her with
no
more
liglitly
more
loved
her
as
she
the
applause which
bulletin from
new
followed
always
the
of
Army
Italy.
when
she saw
that she could
extreme
griefwas
longerpostpone her departure. She thought much
of what
she was
leaving than of what she was
going
to
at Milan
have
find,and
that
justbought
that
some
Poor
woman
she
the
of
the
"
It
...
started
she
given
of Talma.
her
! she
going
were
have
rue
with
she would
made
was
given all
the
in
with
Bonaparte,
as
that he
see
love
enjoyedthis glory,which
day, but she preferredenjoying
every
every
the
much
matter
to
glory ;
Paris, amid
it in
Her
proud
was
he loved
as
the
Memoirs:
for
little house
from
was
to
would
house
slie had
the Luxembourg
Italy,after supping
friends,of whom
burst
palace
into
was
tears, and
her execution
she
one.
there
.
sobbed
as
going
was
if
to
reign."
The
passport which
of
date
afterwards
she
reached
carriagein
which
days
a
Directorygave
the
Bonaparte
in
the
bore
were
June
to Madame
24, 1796.
few
and
aide-de-camp,
young
Joseph,
officer
named
followed
she
in
arrived,
and
duty,
it
passed
through
happy
couple
was
very
for
purer,
the
long
and
Josephine,
paid
attentions
Marmont,
her
to
Piedmont,
"
this
time
truer,
or
heart
of
more
so
of
says
Once
for
happy,
Sardinian
the
by
he
then
had
been
exclusive
extraordinary
lived
the
love
of
for
case
man."
the
Bonaparte
only
fill
she
as
meeting
General
Milan,
at
sent
numerous
court,
the
the
been
the
seen
had
he
had
who
had
military
some
that
days
several
her.
seeing
of
ahead
on
for
not
was
on
away
was
when
Unfortunately,
carriage.
Bonaparte
of
pleasure
or
second
never
man's
his
wife
did
heart,
V.
JOSEPHINE
AT
since
and
she
the
position
such
archduke
had
earlier
did
the
the
palace
the
Duke
negotiating
the
of
by
force
and
and
detached
freed
from
the
masterpieces
Paris
were
as
the
part
of
marvels
46
such
the
of
wrought
in
very
most
derful
won-
sent
campaign:
few
and
Upper
been
had
come
over-
Rome
the
Duke
been
coalition
yoke
the
Sardinia,
Grand
just
of
been
just
of
the
the
of
dence,
resi-
patriot
had
had
antiquity
booty
palace,
susceptibilities
King
and
Austrian
weeks
authority.
noble
the
from
few
political manoeuvring
been
The
princes.
He
Genoa
been
truly princely
and
Modena,
had
Naples
with
had
superiority,
or
republican
had
seeing
at
archduke's
Serbelloni.
of
Venice
Tuscany.
kings
great
equal
Duke
Josephine,
victorious
the
he
of
greatly
results
possessing
the
but
from
Lombardy
occupy
of
an
as
the
Pope,
Italy
of
over
from
offend
Directory
Milan,
Great
few
ruled
not
been
parted
air
but
far
had
greatly surprised
an
to
had
should
he
been
wore
been
Bonaparte
of
he
who
had
occupied.
belonged
as
lest
he
and
obtained,
he
have
must
WAR.
condition
BONAPARTE'S
changed
THE
days.
to
these
AT
JOSEPHINE
From
the
of
Tyrol
resounded
with
sustain
to
he
Alps
had
the
to
Apennines, from
Vesuvius,
to
the
47
WAB.
THE
of
name
the
the
whole
peninsula
But
Bonaparte.
tains
moun-
he had
the
preserve
glory
was
swiftlyacquired. Austria
raising
armies
much
to the force they
superior in numbers
to meet.
The
were
Pope and the Neapolitan court
so
ardently devoted
most
were
Austrians.
At
the
first
this framework
house.
in
Liberal
ideas
Italy; below
He
could
not
count
Sardinia,who
Antoinette
Genoa,
with
the
army
of
done
over
of
again;
seeing
her
This
was
not
was
what
He
In
and
his wife
again for
that he
looked
Jacobins.
the
an
no
than
he
His
seemed
to
unheard-of
good
left Milan
to
to
he had
built
the pay
the
King
the
Marie
love
England
horror
take
had
he
was
so
but
imitatingothers
an
to
the
to
of
; nor
on
be
joy
leave
impetuous
Josephine with
innovation
who
Republic
compelled
was
of
King
Queen
of
had
tocracy
aris-
Tuscany,
with
only
old
the
on
reaction.
the
on
of
Duke
sooner
wars.
accustomed
queror
con-
determined
even
; nor
; nor
oligarchyin
who
Pope,
Grand
Archduke
its
on
the sister of
was
the
on
Austrian
an
on
; nor
; nor
for revenge
wife
young
spiritof
the
Venice, where
on
yearned
Naples, whose
was
ruled
full of uneasiness
was
of
them
the
then
were
the
which
fall to the
of
success
of
reverse
of power
gloriouslywould
so
up
the
to
him.
Bonaparte
he
did
only
to him.
try to capture
Mantua
before the
48
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
arrival of
the
by Wurmser, and,
lloverbella to Josephine,
commanded
army
from
July 6, 1796, wrote
who had stayed in Milan:
Kilmaine
dead
send
will
tired.
I need
send
the
which
preparations,
We
have
their
taken
luck.
We
had
have
received
heart with
am
do
can't fail to
beg
continuallysad.
with
you.
your
tears, your
chamis
and
and
My
that
scratch
that's
good
very
well.
am
hundred
wounded."
Marmirolo
ardent
dear one,
about
am
to
bullets
Since
lover
kind
are
my
all
forever
senses.
"
and it fillsmy
for your
you
that
on
must
you
horseback
I left you
only happiness
jealousy,and
yourself: you
sure
ride
phine
Jose-
to
the
it
I have
is to
be
kisses,
continuallyrecallingyour
am
the
made
seven
gratefulto
of you
good.
you
been
heart
very
had
most
had
most
word
sending me
better to-day. I
ought to be
be quite well.
my
of the
"I
fortunately.
prisonersand captured
letter,my
your
joy.
in
trouble
worthy
July
Massena
out
from
wrote
ill.
bed."
I learned
am
Verona:
Verona:
kisses.
killed and
only ten
not
be
to
in
am
Verona.
thousand
you
once
going
Brune
clothes, but
I send
to
turned
General
his
through
at
go
when
hundred
six
cannon.
report.
letter, from
Roverbella
the enemy;
of my
am
appearing before
was
enemy
to
kisses.
is another
left
hardly
of you
beg
thousand
11, there
copy
for I believe I
you,
you
you
beaten
I have
"
fair
phine's
Jose-
kindlinga blazingfire in
When,
free from
to
all
pass
easiness
un-
all
AT
JOSEPHINE
with
time
my
to think
and
you,
tellingand
of
proving
I
horse, but
have
to
you,
it to you
that
hope
do but
nothing to
of the
nothing but
will
you
be
soon
love
to
happiness of
I will send
49
'
WAR.
THE
you
your
able to
join
me."
The
letter concludes
passion: "A
you;
a
few
thousand
adore
you
with
an
days
ago
seen
outburst
more.
every
day
La
stages of growth.
see
of
some
your
known
has its
! I
Be
idea
have
to
which
strong
does
Millions
of
kisses,and
''
I should
lucky blow,
had
rapidlythat
my
not
a
get there.
different
was
have
have
not
and
me
was
less
beautiful, less
This
plan.
...
reason
is not
in
at
my
or
yours
let
us
never
an
well; be
least be able
were
Fortune,
in
happy !
spiteof
letter,also written
whole
Mantua
the water
I have
of my
Rest
spent the
evening
all,be
me
Josephine'slap-dog.
had
I
am
a
night
by
of the
column, which
.
ferent
dif-
let
you
you.
to
another
taken
and
of
days we
many
what
beg
is not
to
even
Fortund
arms.
to
die. So
we
his crossness."
Marmirolo
refer
not
Come
soon.
say before
to
thought which
flash,is
course
in
you
you,
that
proves
coming
Ah
faults!
I loved
thought
I have
this
more:
astic
enthusi-
you
Since
times
of
lake
at
under
bold
and
fallen
embarked,
so
could
50
which
I enclose.
Yours
there
is
know
how
you
been
the
to send
and
that
mine
and
are
when
Brumaire,
the
comments
of
course
Josephine in
there
entitled
the lake
doubtless
then
that
festival in honor
later,and
of the
which
was
society,nurtured
in
engravings we
often
and
under
tomb
Whatever
chord
given him,"
in
says
inaccurate
assertion
visited Virgil's
of
It
ordered
him
to
classics.
the
of
he
was
of the
notion
Italynear
with
In
gil's
Vir-
of his laurel."
was
tender
Napoleon'scharacter.
opinions.
Ragusa
"
will contradict
Nature
in his
almost
say
many
His sensitiveness
and
timental
sen-
had
Memoirs,
sensitive,
fixed but
evaporated in
of my
writing I
shall narrate
give undeniable
proofsof
the accuracy
the
of
the shadow
the Duke
Bonaparte
moonlight.
sentence
ing
think-
hero
be said, there
may
18th
time, thatwliile
great service
the
see
the
this
worehip
bears
in the
of
not
letter,which
conceived
he
to
lake, in
was
Until
on
sentimental
of the
heart
Josephine."
villageon
heart.
of the
siege of Mantua,
of the taste
of
follows
the
dren.
chil-
I have
doing.
are
and
think
as
Tell
anxious
very
banks
the
volume
am
you
moon,
I did not
trinkets.
some
what
the
Michelet, in his
of
are
to the
me
they were
my own
so
mingled in my
difference.
no
silverylightof
said to
if
as
for
to write
them
on
village,
Virgil's
to
moment
"In
of you
beg
them
"
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESIS
course
62
CITIZENESS
be
and
annoyed,
have
I should
Avould
this
liked
been
have
BONAPARTE.
distresses
thought
seal them
to
Fie ! that
again.
disgraceful.If
blame, I
to
am
much.
me
much
too
one
absolute
neither
dear
one
thousand
1 have
are.
you
kisses,as
had
that he called
me
nothing for
that you
me
From
July
"I
1 arrive
what
am
sure
you
Mantua,
you
go
and
assure
and
lock
you
they
give
Are
you
not
the
m6
to
of
and
I shall
then
get
of ice.
soul
phine,
Jose-
dear
my
ing,
even-
go
to
kiss, since
hope
again.
you
leave, this
them.
not
loving."
to
Josephine,
know,
letters
Tell
letter from
You
Verona;
are
wrote
in my
you
there !
up
very
find
possiblyto Milan,
me
had
you
threats,at
laugh at my
only could put
evening.
like to write
as
he tells
said
you
you.
pleasure your
for Peschiera
you
that
that I shall
this
can
pure
summoned:
hope
When
You
I should
are
heart, as
my
Castiglione,Bonaparte
21
when
ah, if I
know
heart, you
monster
foolishness
and
from
myself to get
as
you,
me
has
letters
no
only love
the courier
Shame
him.
pretty little
my
on
give
Achille
fear.
Milan
warm
dear
Milan
to
come
would
you
nor
Farewell, my
I shall
meet?
we
remorse
despatches from
with
my
I wish
read your
permissionto
suffer from
come
that.
not
to
find
be able to
leave
life and
me
the
AT
JOSEPHINE
passion of
creature, without
Wurmser
not
22
July
is
for
joinhim, by
to
advancing. Bonaparte
could
to go
me
sending Murat
am
there, such
to rest
on
to
the
6th
[Thermidor], and
has
to
will
eternal.
Madame
the
which
women
of
are
sorry
you
going
on
be
well, and
fail to return
medals
me
that
to
he
happy
my
this
from
heart
to
this
you
to
me
he
had
am
my
belongs
tion
men-
you
interest,
those
letters
shall
one
often.
Come
:
for life.
the
given
be
Good
me.
perfectly
easy
is yours
tlie
I
it
little
Adjutant-GeneralMiollis
wrote
Milan
conquest will
reached
not
and
why
As
opened,
well
that
one,
very
Brescia.
I
do
leave
you
know
I take
the
speedilyto
and
I don't
T., in whom
for you
7th, where
dear
besides
one
fectly
per-
Brescia.
awaiting you.
imagine, my
for any
room
are
to
to
the
be
by right of conquest,
you
in
can
you
be solid and
as
of lovers
my
would
you
on
make
lodging
I think
time
you
come
want.
devoted
heart
to
that
in
me
you
most
that
tell
as
sorry
and
it
Milan.
as
would
prepare
very
liere
far away
so
Castiglione,
presence
which
indispensable. You
well
persuaded her
he
days ;
six
or
but
requires my
army
take five
would
sand
thou-
goddess;
quite impossiblefor
That
dear
Josephine;
means
The
"
kind
"
was
Milan
to
go
and
by, lovely
rival,you
loving kisses
But
Good
heart?
my
53
WAR.
THE
all is
Don't
box
to
of
you.
64
CITIZEN
Mankind
is
be too
careful.
At
Brescia.
and
malicious
so
use
Bring what
three
avoid
will
you
of the
:
and
me,
need, and
slowly,and
I will
Good
to
soon
both
town
journey.
whatever
in the
may
cool
of the
far
as
go
dear
by,
as
sleep,the
to
you
only
for fourteen
post
can
I advise
way.
come
use
you
cannot
one
carriagefor
go to Brescia.
the 7th.
on
I have
gettingtired.
6th, at Cassano
you,
gossipingthat
well, love
Travel
days to
hours
and
silverware
be necessary.
day,to
Be
Milan,
country
BONAPARTE.
ESS
can
Josephine!
to
meet
sand
thou-
loving kisses."
By
thus
between
calling his
wife
him, in time
to
battles,Bonaparte seemed
two
of war,
be
to
doing
"
seemed
We
his
good angel.
so
long as
career,
his
he
may
brilliant
game,
with
was
almost
out
through-
her, he
sviccess.
like
that
say
always
gambler
all other
"
human
when,
received
and
had
of
hastened
which
compelled
turn.
General
picture
the
de
the
had
critical condition
his march
the
Wurmser
leave.
to
French
Segur says
disorder, the
army
in
of Mantua,
eight or
some
his
to
had
days,
ten
in
hasten
Memoirs
"
its
To
which
AT
JOSEPHINE
let
us
Josephine herself,who
in
how,
telling us
she
began,
Bonaparte
saved
inspiration
Brescia
from
tliem.
at
They
movement
the
provedi-
night longer,
one
It
once.
not
were
take
to
she,
was
she
obstinatelythat
so
leave
to
when
stay
entertainment.
refused
who
told me,
the
when
her to
trying to tempt
was
Bonaparte,
used
was
by proposing a grand
she
first threw
at
listen to
pleasure
tore
attack
double
Wurmser's
55
WAR,
THE
suaded
per-
This
happy
four
leagues
the
tlie
entered in largeforce.
Bonaparte would
provedltore,
have
been
captured at the ball, and either put to
death
The
there
they
had
who
which
down
come
better
were
of
saved
her
Lake
Garda.
this
which
she
from
mounted
who
rejoinedhim
across
her
there,
the lake.
horse
at
he
her
to
the
other
a
the
fled to
received
lie
shores
of
hand, she
her
flotilla
carriage,
Peschiera, where
word,
Castiglione.At
soldiers wounded
that
hostile
Abandoning
and
given lier
fancied
from
bullets
new
had
on
most;
Josephine'seyes,
husband's, had
by sending
castle
at the
men
to
Adige.
danger, and
But
readied
two
other
by
less service
no
by twenty
than
it
controlled
Bonaparte,
She
the
the
new
greeted by
was
dawii
assailed
were
notice
came
At
Verona, escorted
close to
of
next
husband.
her
war."
prisoner of
made
or
sent
for her.
every
step she
in the skirmishes
ceding
pre-
in
such
peril,decided
to
5G
CITIZENESS
make
her
division
already reached
Lonato.
She
to
to
return
Brescia; but
to
return
stopped by
BONAPARTE.
of
Ponte
the
where
Castiglione,
At
"
in the
anxiety and
frightenedand
was
heard
wept much."
sent
which
Mantua,
IMoved
entered
Milan
have
and
Brescia
off,he
cut
were
showed
will
Bonaparte
besieged by
she
sorrow
was.
she
moment,
When
Italy,making
still
was
the
by
had
with
still
and
of Saint Helena^
of the
excitement
Austrians
the
that
steps
Bonaparte
"
her
retrace
had
towards
its way
on
was
which
enemy
Marco
obligedto
was
Josephine
French.
the
in
parting from
to
pay
dear
for
Since his
few
days
a
with
Josephine, and
certain
I shall console
have
every
joy
with
tears
The
climate
the
of
the
the
powder,
He
has
lifted above
the
moved
reached
earth
by
of the
fire the
to
of great men,
careers
are
the fierceness
when
by
a
one
for her
him
moved
him
himself,
glow
of
the
of war,
very
duced
pro-
ready to
deeply.
she shall
"
that face
Italy,the brightsun,
combined
hero.
they
of
the
bring
summer
youth, all
shall
made
to
To
glory.
passed but
his love
tears
her," he said
and
had
which
excitement
do
""
you."
marriage Bonaparte
wet
now
happiness."
clear
the
sky,
smell
conflict,the ardor of
vivid
imagination of
of those
they
periods in
feel tliemselves
supernaturalbreath, and
mysterious force, as
if
they
JOSEPHINE
AT
were
divinely inspired.
know
those
wonders.
beaten
fascinate her, to
to
would
have
patriotismand
its
it will be when
he had
to
in his
he had
at
said
must
have
been
woman's
was
about
"
carriagevery
fired
hit.
on
from
General
for
to
his
gave
firmlythan
the
to
work
the
de
near
her
of
of fortune
"
again,
Hence
victory
he believed
A
Josephine
talisman
secret
herself
husband's
about
with
it is
Josephine.
ever.
by her
days'campaign was
was
as
wished
Forward
of
hunger
see
He
reassured
six
love
and
eagle
to
which
open.
parte
Bona-
miracles.
Nevertheless, Josephine
her
nation
determi-
triumphed."
price.
any
more
him,
to
The
glance.
and
I shall
"
mistrust
no
lucky star
voice
he
I shall have
conquer
day
the
His
audacity,and he
saw
Josephine in
his soul
said
consolation.
and
when
was
He
to conceive.
phine
Jose-
beaten, he
genius a fire,an
and
been
with
he
that
admiration,
that
tears
cries of
and
become
dazzle, to
to
had
strength
irresistible. It
was
her
artists
before
wanted
pity
His
they
appear
If he
all
and
character
renewed
energy,
from
glory.
triumph.
to
not
He
wring
scorned
the
could
man.
her with
cover
when
With
possessed,Bonaparte
as
of action
privilegedmoments
of
capable
Men
57
WAR.
THE
to
was
flight,
passing in
in
besieged Mantua.
town, and
some
S"^gurnarrates
of her
what
She
escort
was
were
58
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
him
that,
they
as
firing was
the
in
refuge
hot
so
that
A
chapel.
that
at
got
before
She
building.
the
crossed
evil
yet
which
rumors
and
Italy and
in
and
all
was
received
spite
in
with
these
announced
the
total
crossed
and
from
Wurmser's
the
the
it went
of
future, he
victory of the
that
put
uhlans,
days
the
the
moment
his
treated
her
It
and
when
received
her,
as
wife
like
sented
pre-
fied
justi-
was
later
4, in which,
to
French
messages
and
she
had
herself
between
river
August
day.
husband's
successes
Just
Josephine
announced
next
and
oils.
Wurmser."
Po, and
of
wonderful
husband's
armies,
current,
Senate
few
the
public opinion
were
giftsof precious
a
all
of
congratulate
to
says
her
dangers
the
by
Bonaparte, dated
the
state
that
Lucca
defeat
the
of
rejoicings,for
her
Lucca,
in
feeling inspired by
rumors
great princess :
her
the
was
the
pursued,"
"
"by
confidence
her
in
at
reached
our
the
false
the
scarcely
generally accompanied
such
general, that,
had
and
such
Already
aimed
destroyed
Ferrara,
Helena^
them
cannon
fact, she
take
to
urge
fear
supported by
star.
to
up
Po, and
the
of Saint
Memorial
ran
cannon-balls
In
gunshot,
obliged
was
Austrian
some
place.
dangerous
away
she
soldier
to
within
passing by
were
letter
ing
discount-
already
won,
60
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
passes,
of
that
"
Garda, and
Lake
Adige,
the
of
that
the
the
many
audacious
try to
advantages to
genius. Raising
that in
knew
he
because
Bonaparte's
siege of
of
sure
his
swift
movements,
the
it
force.
Successful
5th
he
Castiglione,
at
Directorythat
a
doubled
battle
gave
dream
and
that
at
9, Bonaparte
with
wrote
the
on
had
army
Italywas
tranquil.
"
killed
letter
8th
on
the
to
vanished
like
Wurmser
had
and
twenty-
captured. August
or
thanking
for
the
city of
Milan
the
wrote
of
at
picked men
end
strength,and
equal or superior
the
thing,
every-
tactics,he, by
his
was
Austrian
the
to lose
forces
Mantua,
to
great peril,
way
lake.
he
line of
of
man
the
wherever
the
this
that it presented
the
the
of
favorable
all his
concentrated
forced
moments
everythingis
save
he
so
of
eastward
shore
west
had
hxke.
the
to
have
"
the
won
population,which
becomes
every
day,without
world
"In
There
with
the
with, and
day
glory."
week
none
we
worthy
more
are
Bonaparte,who
enter
Marmont
I
of the
love
becoming
ever
doubt, it will
last
are
is
the
and
esteem
have
enemy
be
the
its
free:
some
stage of the
to
his
father:
slept
four
hours.
wrote
left for
energetic,
more
to
on
not
of France
to Brescia
us
to
fight
triumphs."
August 10,
that
wrote
ABCOLE.
61
Josephine,who,
after the
CASriGLIONE
BETWEEN
evening
same
AND
to
had
victory at Castiglione,
without
Mihm
difficulty. I
write
able
have
"
first thought is to
my
been
to
to
All
you.
your
from
you.
happy,
be
must
you
Good
work.
went
wife.
to
raise
to
at
new
Milan, and
despair of
dangers,and
love, which
which
he
not
very
well
in such
of
Mantua,
heard
the
*He
more.
for
the
the
left
to
When
war
Josephine,August
in
before I left ; I
had
words
the
reached
31:
of you,
promised
then
and
from
"I
his
cia,
Bres-
leave
at
letter from
You
anxiety.
beg
that
intensity. It
hopes of findinga
horrible
witli
preoccupations,
had
he
had
Josephine
amazement
continuallygrowing
You
his
Alvinzy. Bonaparte
was
in
me
about
was
distract him
me
love
Tyrol, Avanted
Austria
again
1 had
ears
my
fortnightwith
not
to
you
Bonaparte
battles could
anxiety.
thoughtful; yet your
me
often."
these
this leaves
you
to
All
for Verona.
once
me
and
of
up
enemies.
was
wrote
am
fled to
once
perpetualfever.
and
make
can
Josephine;
spent
that
started
his
of
had
untiring zeal
was
he
who
army,
siege
offensive
the
resume
love
sweet
think
Milan, where
Wurmser,
my
the
renewing
to
tenderest
so.
by,
health
have
way
waitingimpatiently
; I can't express^
I left you
sad, depressed,and half
am
uneasiness.
my
in
the
been
to
just arrived,and
have
return
don't
to
agreed
be
with
were
leave
more
your
62
CITIZENESS
heart.
to whom
You,
BONAPARTE.
gentleness,and
can
days without
several
you
word
ness,
given sweetattractive
quality,how
Three
you so warmly ?
every
who
forgetone
you
loves
from
times.
has
nature
and
you,
This
I have
absence
written
is horrible
to
the
onous.
nights are long,tiresome, dull ; the days are monotTo-day, alone with my thoughts,my work,
and
their tedious
plans, I
writing,with men
my
have
not
heart.
Headquarters
hour.
I have
letter,which
live for
believe
loved
me
was
will
be
that
the
We
kisses !
we
have
overthrown
eightor
that
19th
makes
on
Lake
day
Como.
the courier
with
much
I want
away
from
with
hope
Trent
the
and
this
as
my
and
enter
from
you,
I hear
that
been
one
are
you
out
sailing
impatientlyexpecting every
tg hear from
you.
sweet
men.
many
even
from
my
tured
cap-
word
you;
3, 1796
have
have
am
gentle,
good luck,
you
thousand
be
is to
dreads
dear
horses with
have
that
this
campaign, my
[Fructidor]. No letters
me
reallyuneasy; still
well, and
he
Ala, September
the
ten
shall
we
Paris
an
"
of the
in the midst
are
from
in
letter, from
Another
I follow
express
longer by Josephine.
no
on
gone
an
againstmy
to press
you
only misfortune
loving,exclusive
"
have
received
there
evening ;
from
note
one
even
life's
Josephine.
you
you
I do not
happiness
is
of
me
Think
know
how
reallylive,
to
be
I write
to
only
CASTIGLIONE
BETWEEN
often
often,very
me
which
is
it is the
to the
below.
of Roveredo
have
we
have
fought
thousand
the
to
the
four
and
In
winds.
these
cessful
suc-
In six
days
'^
the enemy
; we
made
als
gener-
scattered
or
days, continually
have
we
made
forty-
witli
cannon
their
largestores."
his wife
horse
such
My dear, the
"
taken
five thousand
himself
Emperor
into
and
constant
the
with
Tyrol
are
will have
from
wrote
the
column
has
men,
Mantua.
for
secured
to raise
rest
the
second
eighteen
killed
are
or
of five hundred
no
Never
important success.
Montebello
had
has
enemy
prisoner:
Wurmser,
and
throw
men
wounded.
and
the
and
thousand
to
four skirmishes
six
suit
pur-
later, the
killed,wounded,
Brenta
Directory:
the
including several
prisoners,
been
fire
September 8th,
hours
battles and
two
of the
twenty-one flagsfrom
taken
sixteen
Two
to
plunging
into Trent
gorges
Bassano.
general wrote
the rocks
over
a
in
defile of Primolano
of the
hunters
The
the
in
victory of
the
absence,
in
Alpine
sent
5th, entrance
the
of Wurmser
seizure
thence
remarkable.
most
was
rivalled the
tops, and
mountain
deeds
only balm
: they clambered
activity
and
the enemy
upon
63
ARCOLE.
Bonaparte's soldiers
boldness
AND
but
resource
have
we
had
Italy,Trieste,
Republic.
army
The
artillery,
64
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTE.
few
days
reward
of
ardent
and
While
has
this time
to
winning these
Josephine's state
was
Marquis
been
came
loni who
was
which
her Paris
thus
ran
M.
"
the
she
at
M.
wrote
This
at
had
letter,
of the
papers
privateperson
in France.
this country.
state
spirits
;
health
chance
adores
me
cannot
be
how
tainments,
enter-
me
Tuscany, the
rather be a simple
I had
honors
It is true
of
that
something to do with my
ailing. If happiness could
has
me
Italy,feted
often
am
in
of
Duke
bored.
frightfully
am
of my
princesgiving
Well
of Serbel-
received
been
Grand
the
Duke
The
Serbelloni
Italian
the
Emperor's brother.
you
mind
bored.
of Beauharnais.
friends.
I have
even
no
of
de Renaudin, who
going to Paris,was
everywhere,all
I have
letter which
preserved among
make
astounding
Pageriefamily,betraysthe melancholy
over
Josephinein her separationfrom her
and
low
thousand
published a
the
children
the
sweetest
de la
Tascher
which
cares.
my
justmarried
has
is the
was
tell the
To
Aubenas
which
that
captured.
loving kisses."
Bonaparte
meet
fatigue and
my
victories, what
Milan
shall
we
been
that
be
can
best health
imagined.
I have
to want
all
a
better husband.
much
am
loved.
M.
He
Serbelloni
will tell
often writes
to
my
CASTIGLIONE
BETWEEN
children
M.
by
tense,
lie loves
mentioned
At
Hortense
"
has
you
dear
girl;
will
bring
love
my
after
to
my
dear
by,
my
The
you
his arrival.
of
partakes
both
He
for
how
of
these
and
Campan
tense,
dear Hor-
much
me
brother's
write
will
children
to
I kiss
he
Italy.
Kiss
for
girl.
her
console
her
often
Tliink
continued
his
compelled
victorious
Wurmser
amid
"
I write
to
:
melancholy epistle
absence
affectioimtely."
Josephine'sletters
to
often
letters
your
for my
me
you
Good
me.
he
this
Give
to send
But
refugein Mantua.
was
unhappy because
wrote
little
some
from
Jerome
dear
Hortense, my
September 15,
He
I love
Serbelloni
take
rare.
how
feelings,
my
going
am
Paris, and
dearly. M.
Bonaparte
follow^s
as
and
very
untiring Bonaparte
course.
leaving
daughter
Madame
dear
her
to
Saint Germain, my
to
from
mamma
my
is
speak
also
you
dear
your
from
Josephine wrote
Eugene, Emilie,
your
and
and
for you,
fine
some
go
I love
souvenirs
of
to
Eugene
you
first opportunity."
of Serbelloni
I think
dear
day
line
I shall
I love you.
from
the
much
much
time
promised
repeater,
aunt, my
same
Duke
The
dear
little money
at the
the
watch,
Hor-
to
pearls;to Eugene,
forgethow
you
sends
He
by, my
not
send
to
try
65
ARCOLE.
handsome
in small
set
do
much.
Good
gold watch.
mamma
them
Serbelloni
and
enamelled
AND
to
you
were
too
Verona,
very
often.
CITIZENESS
and
write
you
! Must
way
he
overwhelmed
he
can
the
as
lose all
help
wicked, ugly
It is
bit of
dotinglover, in this
liis rightsbecause he is away,
a
and
work, fatigue,
it ?
lost
are
frivolous.
husband,
with
You
are
you
deceive
perfidyto
seldom.
very
ugly
as
woman,
BONAPARTE.
had
Yesterday we
heavilyand
trouble
a
How
hot
very
fight;
thoroughly beaten.
We
Good
captured the suburb of Mantua.
by, dear
Josephine. One of these nights your door will be
burst open, as if a jealoushusband
were
breakingin,
enemy
I shall
and
be
in your
was
arms.
thousand
loving
kisses."
A
from
letter
filled with
sadness.
field all
the
fever
and
of
At
to
absence,
dream
fever.
one
been
which
;
one
my
yesterdayI was
stayed in bed.
I received
but
and
heart
hundred
vexed, but
kindness
a
dear
my
that moment,
and
saw
miles
with
you
Your
think
married
are
they had
me,
Josephine.
It is very
been
written
What
Stop lovingme
more
That
can
you
capricious
that
alone.
are
after
full
life's winter.
very
you
have
do
bad, very
to
of
grace
fifty
years
They
wicked,
the
It
was
it relieved
as
feelingsof
and
from
me
her letters.
not
"
cold
fifteen years.
friendliness
of you.
as
apart, vanished.
gentle,loving,with
belongs to Josephine
letters
in
lips; and
my
would
is likewise
Yesterday I
prevented
raging headache
pressed them
pang
before
Day
day.
writing to
"
17,
October
Modena,
of age
had
we
of
the
Shame
ous
traitor-
distress
alreadydone.
my
me
Hate
68
CITIZENESS
incalculable.
It
was
If I had
power.
have
and Venice.
is not
the
And
this
would
honest
and
intentions, I
silence
government
shall have
of
rest
men
to
entrust
it will
believe
in
I have
Alvinzy
miracle
could
cere,
sin-
have
been
his word?
written
France
to
whatever
to
single
political
save
enable
me
position the
the
time
for
able
of the
my
art
the
Not
Republic.
of
government.
esteem
you."
advancing with
the
devote
to
adopted for my
country ! I beg of
of
feelings
avowed
was
retirement
When
me.
public career,
the
of
health, and
and
ship
friend-
to
is
have
to
demand
at
months
ask
suspect my
that I shall be
season,
grow
which
When
my
advantage
may
health
my
already
is in
can
four
or
:
principle
Everything
you
with
restore
envy,
I entered
When
there
of my
to let
"If
Three
come,
Italyin
once
better
fill to
to
and
him
had
true, who
at
country.
will
should
as
Bonaparte
taken
be, he
may
Carnot, August
my
that
generalin Italy
your
I want,
man,
Rome,
feint ?
However
that,I
that I
put in
a
all
on
with
of
shattered
or
break
will run
everything,
great
you
tion
language must not be ascribed to ambi-
This
one
consulted
Whenever
centre
; I have
some
to
negotiationswith
Genoa
so
unwise
very
been
continued
risks.
BONAPARTE,
French
and
an
army
nothing
of
short
troops,the young
CA8TIGLI0NE
BETWEEN
commander-in-chief,
doubted
Directory
lot
was
lose
heart
his
man
his
he
had
of
dauntless
genius
to
grew
his
first
time
regretted
resignation.
the
try
haps,
per-
that
the
But
the
parte
Bona-
impossible.
audacity.
with
69
ARCOLE.
the
for
possibly
star,
accepted
not
thrown
was
who,
of
had
AND
the
He
danger.
did
not
VII.
ARCOLE.
AFTER
and
enthusiasm,
Italian
Often
yet
if
appeared
of
by
afflicted
seemed
results
the
But
If
tacticians
would
visions,
knew
he
And
him
turn
nothing
70
that
of
defeat
the
art
to
that
war.
filled him
before
hero
the
all
plans
In
less
cease-
This
his
pended
de-
success
old-fashioned
and
ridicule
of
history
did
what
his
in
place
a
by
torn
was
or
the
brilliancy
prove
order
by
all wild
were
inevitable
was
of
the
his
which
continually
forgotten
on
beaten,
were
reasoning
and
be
foolhardy
success.
depend?
mathematical
would
caped
es-
dwindling
and
soul
umph,
tri-
anxiety.
armies,
which
before
Bonaparte's
called
his
on
is
obtained,
What
be
he
that
and
zeal
perpetual
illness
the
Bonaparte
hostile
"
glory of the
Would
the
all
despondency,
anxiety.
often
the
of
and
commander-in-chief
young
victory.
The
another
of
the
joy,
name
uncertainty
lost;
miracle.
brigades
the
of
mere
visions
up
full
was
after
one
heroic
the
with
it
everything
as
calls
than
feeling
The
if
as
appears
other
no
confidence.
campaign
and
it
war
known
had
victor
first
successful
because
to
he
justify
71
ABCOLE.
his
self-confidence,he had
the numberless
on
At
issue of battles.
campaign
and
he
he
was
was
that
we
of this memorable
moment
edge
It is when
over.
greatest men,
the
of
precipice.A touch,
lives of the
study the
we
the
Csesars,the Alexanders,
are
most
of human
impressed with
affairs and
pended
de-
decide the
accidents which
every
on
future
His
beat.
to
the very
the
the
leons,
Napo-
cance
insignifi-
great importance
of the most
trivial
details of the most
insignificant
incidents in the fate of republicsand empires. There
is an unknown
all human
force which
mocks
plans.
faithful
The
chance.
Almost
they
But
all
Avhatever
their
it exists
it
everywhere.
fatalists,
because, when
triumphs,they
own
part, and
own
sceptics call
its name,
examine
their
was
it Providence
call
that often
how
see
they
small
failed
have
have
when
hopeless.
account.
no
and
of these
But
It
its favorites
cares
are
succeeded
success
was
for but
those
thing,
one
who
"
risked
have
success
everything
for
and won.
everything,
When
Alvinzy'sarmy was
advancing towards
thousand
Piave, Bonaparte had but thirty-six
men
oppose
three
to
the rice-fields of
5, he
and
Everythingsuffers,
The
least
fevers which
delaymay
we
one
to
wrote
are
be fatal to
to
exhausted
they were
Lombardy. Any
despaired. November
"
and
sixtythousand,
the
by
they caught in
else would
the
have
Directory:
We
are
on
the
72
CITIZENESS
BONAPABTE,
of great events.
eve
for
All
us.
their
reached
These
the
After
several
to
few
on
His
retreat.
thousand
on
and
He
he
9
had
had
Though I am tired,I
passionatelydevoted
thousand
taken
am
to
kisses."
it
by
forced
the
mand
com-
driven
was
himself, with
teen
seven-
positionbefore Verona,
driven
brief
letter to
Verona
day
vember
Josephine,No-
before
well, very
very
November
11,
failed.
yesterday.
busy,always
horse
My
you.
been
wing, under
He
been
I reached
"
had
occupied Trent
this
wrote
outposts, followed
left
Rivoli.
men,
the Brenta.
whence
have
received."
Bonaparte
reverses,
Corona
have
we
of the
of Vaubois, had
back
Empire
and we
surprisingcelerity,
Fine promises and a few insignificant
successes
serious
double
troops of the
all that
are
corps
terrible misfortune
posts with
left to ourselves.
are
delaysare
is
he
The
waiting.
attacked
ions
divis-
two
tried,November
12,
Augereau and Mass^na
The unfavorable
capture the heightsof Caldiero.
of
to
of
superiority
strengthof
of these
success
Verona.
valiant
had
not
not
more
Army
more
than
all
positions,
two
contributed
the
to
divisions,in spiteof
the
ill-
all their
They
heroism.
into
their
the enemy,
were
than
six
thirteen
thousand
thousand
men.
There
were
in Massena's
can't
alone
do
and
the
73
ARCOLE.
of all.
work
the
which
before
one
now
why
don't send
we
us
re-enforcements
any
hand,
The
victory,and
able to
seemed
the
on
me
do
to
you
do
keep
you
new
day? What
from writing to
is this wonderful
love, which
all your
love
horrid,
are
You
never
the least
your
one
you
dear
ters
let-
lines !
six
is there
creature, this
time, rules
Caldiero,
I don't
him
send
to
at
pleasure your
all
throws
this critical
affectionate
an
"
of
parte's
Bona-
husband
your
what
forces
at
You
you.
won't
you
to write
love
know
you
Yet
Josephine:
to
don't
and
give him,
enough
of Verona.
perfect Cinderella.
you
What
time
clumsy, stupid, a
What
new
ladders with
day
reproachfulletter
to
the
felt confident
They
desperate.
found
13, he
November
write
the other
the reduced
count
they meant
at
They
beaten,
with
alreadypreparing the
were
moment,
you
will
use
idle
are
are
we
confronted
be
at their leisure.
situation
and
if
of
in the end."
were
enemy
of the French
which
shall
be ruined
must
they
their work
do
to
and
Rhine
like
Wurmser,
we
have
is the
us,
We
victory be?
army
the
victorious, of what
are
we
faces
retreated, and
should
we
of
armies
Sambre-et-Meuse
the
which
Alvinzy's army,
serious
lover ?
side the
love,
promised him?
new
lover, who
days,and prevents
74
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
writingto
your
line
some
there I
night
all sorts of
and
hot
de
Bonaparte
hope
cover
to
with
you
and
dear, at
not
at once,
and
heart
with
my
will fill my
soon
open,
burst
four pages
me
Rdmusat,
hold
in my
you
kisses
million
as
all
Avas
herself,struck
by
She
always disposed to
the
and
tain
ready to mainfeeling,
in spite of
intelligence,
was,
fills this correspondence.
passion which
Memoirs
in her
says
campaign.
These
.
I have
"
letters
seen
in the
wife written
to his
Napoleon's letters
first Italian
deny
of
trace
any
he
that
of
uneasy,
care
equator."
Madame
some
shall be
loving thingswhich
I shall
the
as
Write
you.
emotion.
and
arms,
door
your
Josephine,take
I am
Seriously,
am.
hearing from
love
husband
your
are
very
writing,
singular; they are in an almost undecipherablehandthey are badly spelt,the styleis strange and
Yet they have such a passionate
confused.
tone, they
full of real feeling,
so
are
they contain expressions
that there
and at the same
time so poetical,
so
warm,
lived
never
receive
to
just such
with
contrast
who
woman
the
thing for
men
'Here
of
to
woman
of
causes
one
I am,
an
of
far
and
see
have
not
They
form
measured
herself
been
a
striking
smoothness
at
"
by politics
"
from
shadows
you!
;
when
time
of the
one
glad
Moreover, what
de Beauharnais.
controlled
were
eve
letters.
delicate
of the letters of M.
would
I need
seem
ing
inspirOn
the
wrote:
to
have
76
CITIZENESS
soldiers
isinghis
lie
early victory,
an
Directory,November
the
"Citizens
letter:
of the
operationswhich
its
army;
that
have
will not
makes
men
we
about
are
aid
expected
my
duty,
My
soul is
and
has
the
the
of
hope
shall
still,if
which
no
heroes
troops arrive.
sano
have
of
to
their
is
who
Then
This
left
notliingleft
and
with
of
hour
the
siege
further
of
Army
or
Italy,
Basin
are
their
but
tlie
reputation
become
disturbs
me.
would
wounded.
.
such
inevitable, amid
such
brave
of
Tlie
.
inferior
all
forces!
Augereau, of
Berthier, is
of
will
death, which
aie
death
see
Mass^na,
what
idea
morrow
To-
handful, is exhausted.
mere
Chabran,
combats
Possiblythe
fearless
the
are
unendinor
enemy.
Adda, and
If this blow
Dupuis, Rambau,
few
the
.
the
week.
army.
resting.
raisingof
The
.
the
is easy.
are
on
doing
am
of
of
and
Lodi, Millesimo, Castiglione,
hospital. There
and
in
be behind
soon
is reduced
The
tlie
None
...
true
of
It may
us.
the
exhaustion
Italy!
all
troops
ours,
was
the fault to
conscience
preventing
which
Mantua,
falls,we
of
If it is
the worst.
depend
movements
our
account
an
place.
the
thing is
same
my
no
ascribe
reached
despairing
you
taken
lose
to
tortured, but
liave
owe
dread
me
writing to
was
almost
an
and
present inferiority
its bravest
the
14,
I
Directoi-s,
satisfactory,
you
not
be
BONAPARTE,
close
these
the
hand!
at
brave
men?
dare
to
face
bring discouragement
and
mis-
no
longer
77
ARCOLE.
all
to
ery
what
begins in
:
effort !
and
few
that
keep
it ends
shall
we
Re-enforced
there
is
letter
with
fulness
hope-
will
the
by
our
final
be
taken,
ing
besieg-
army
I would
nothing
The
make
Italy!
town,
watch."
despair;
days
If fortune
it
is almost
In
"
with
whom
over
take
under-
not
"
"
saved
but
stimulus, whom
abyss
and
the
There
are
Before
general thought
young
image.
Like
memory
of
the
their
exploits,he
noble
and
and
poetic soul.
amid
love
was
smile
love, and
This
the
in
and
power
if his
career
if all these
the
found
of love !
endless
were
fio"ht,
the
accomplishing
their
that
strength
time
After
to
this
spectacle
"
hopes were
checked
to
be but
man
should
braggart,unworthy
of
gering
hun-
of tlie most
minent
im-
by expecting a kiss,
to
the most
be
terrible
and
jealous,
be
from
moment
glory,what
pretended great
young
reassures
evoked
impetuous genius,in
suffer pangs
The
engrossingoccupations,yet
most
are
Josephine's
who
curious
perilconsoling himself
a
only
saw
irresistible
an
It
he
old
before
chivalrous
the
for
ladies
bold.
beo-inninGfthe
that
knights of
derived
the
man
giddiness,but
no
them.
encourao^es
makes
danger only
them
causes
difficulties
whom
to
men
to
vast
would
he
not
suffer
now
at
the
start
disappointment;
appear
the
as
mere
confidence
of
if
^a
78
CITIZENESS
Barras
What
BONAPARTE.
would
then
and
Josephine,France,
"
the
Cid,
"Issue
from
victor
17,
called to
the sick
the
to
gate
of
and
the
silence
day
and
of
was
to
to
fugitives? The
started,
from
took
positionon
not
intended
where
they
positionthey
left bank
usually the
the
battle,
"
think
them
the
and
the
on
gate
solemn
idea
the
the
that
they
their
issued
observed, while
an
pital
hos-
with
columns
starting;
announced
reverses
filled the
presence
The
of affairs made
they had
courage.
the ranks
their
right,and
which
state
about
the
on
order of the
about
time
Verona
leaving the
Adige. It was
They had no
the
The
going.
taken
is tlie
at
camp
on
Milan, and
of
moment.
had
which
after
from
Chimene
of the last
news
lively emotion.
bank
anxious
were
sity.
inten-
the line
which
called the
were
of
insisted
whole
genius,
Josephine till
see
remembered
the
wounded
with
were
prodigies.His
pitch of wonderful
combat
At
yet unhealed
right
such
of
the
nightfall,
at
arms.
and
and
army
avoid
To
"
November
wounds
Italy?
mistresses,
"
prize!
was
his three
say
hot
strugglesand
the heroes
mere
of
so
thought
many
such
dauntless
battles
filled them
with
to
be
dis-
79
AECOLE.
tress
they yearned to
they had
as
cartridgeand
of
instead
following the
suddenly turned
before
Ronco
there
bank
continue
the
struggle as long
road
to
to the
it found
where
daybreak,
soldiers,
"
thousand
men
we
"
we
retreating. With
not
are
do
can
nothing in
Our
thousand.
country against forty-five
to the causeways
leadingus
numbers
will
depend
not
"
Then,
Saint
Helena, "the
every
man
glowing
bold
of
eyes
giants,he
could
about
causeways
by
from
run
marshes.
he
men
begin a
of
could
hope
three
days'
an
Adige,
third
descends
from
the
Three
second,
which
columns
and
all these
first,
ascending the
The
the
Albaredo.
this battle
Ronco,
and
Alpon;
the
saw
stupendous strugglesthat
; the
half
support of
in
before
of
heart:
every
Bonaparte
to
Memorial
the
undertake.
ever
surrounded
When
sucli
with
was
in
himself
soldiers
his
There
outdo
plan."
of the most
battle,one
Three
to
general is
of the columns.
victoryfired
of
hope
felt that
everything.
army
heads
it is said
open
everything will
where
of the
as
promised
fine and
but
the
marshes, where
in the vast
count,
the courage
on
Forward
the
Andreassy
"
twelve
are
when
covered
the construction
of a bridge,and disfinishing
itself by a simple turn to the left,on the other
of the Adige, there was
claimed
generaljoy. No ! exthe
so
So
bayonet left.
has
over
the
advanced
to
Villa
bridge
the
Nuova,
a
league
little
Adige,
river,
towards
simultaneously
80
CITIZENESS
the
over
three
BONAPARTE.
The
causeways.
column
centre
been
careless to
too
Adige, under
the
The
Alpon
at
impression that
the
Alpon
from
causeway
was
of
reached
who
to the
outposts
between
impassable marsh.
Arcole
to
strikes
miles, and
two
the
enemy,
the space
an
Ronco
distance
his
extend
was
from
the
there
so
the
up
famous.
He
stoppedthe
to
soldiers.
hesitated.
the
it,but
cross
Before
of cannon-balls
avalanche
near
tried
terrible
this rain of
and
bullets,this
the boldest
shells,even
and
bridge,got
fire
when
Augereau's men
had
shouted
them,
to
conquered
and
them
about
two
to
"
in
hundred
cross
and
without
abandon
coat, and
you
we
his
the
a
"
of
They
courage.
deadly fire,and
got
the
lost; you
The
general,seized
dragged him with them
their
own
General, you
are
called to
bridge,and were
major seized Bonaparte by
steps
it,when
waist, shouting,
Then
with
who
men
seizinga flag,he
spite of
the
to
and
longer the
no
you
inspiredthem
him
followed
within
Lodi
at
Are
"
will
shall
be
go
killed,
no
ther!"
fur-
soldiers,unwilling
his arm,
in their
his
hair, his
amid
flight,
81
ABCOLE.
and
dying, through
without
seeing what
the dead
right,into
the
to
over
Austrians
The
him.
to
men,
and
Bonaparte,
and
fallen
charged
the
enemy,
from
hastened
Governolo, and
between
body, and
on
not
The
The
three
the
on
In the afternoon
twenty
only one-third
army
and
at
himself
placed
with
places,insisting
the
the
stronger
his
decided
and
men,
his
and
Austrians
had
on
that
that
thus
leave
the
been
it
forces.
own
to
troops
bridgethat
Adige
17th, Bonaparte
and
than
16,
trians
16th, the Aus-
of the
of the
thousand
the
his
day, November
next
enemy,
ordered
attack
crossed
Avounded
death."
heroic
dykes
marshes,
Lannes
covering him
the
Consequently,he
Helena^
touching and
lost
Saint
been
He
defeated
have
mud
his horse
General
On
counted
thick
on
of
17th.
of Arcole.
was
him
out,
nightfallfinally
had
in
Louis
Bonifacio.
day after,the
were
it
he
the
ward,
For-
camp,
aide-deMuiron, the general's
battle continued
the
San
the enemy,
wounded
was
killed while
a
"
must
and
leaving him.
was
''
rushed
men
at
still weak.
was
Napoleon
his
and
Milan
heard,
from
who
him
sight of
Marmont,
one
body,
"
tlieyput
Arcole, retiringon
That
"was
lost
was
brave
other
had
abandoned
had
few
he
into which
"
general!
threw
fusion,
con-
Fortunatelythey
cry
the commander-in-cliief
tore
and
there.
A
the
marsh, and
the
were
save
In the
recognizehim.
failed to
tlie smoke.
the
plaiti.
built at
82
CITIZEN
the
mouth
of
of
one
the
Arcole,
The
18,
from
the
re-entered
the
Adige,
"
It
would
not
the
they
friends."
others,
a
miracle
in
Veronese
added
The
their
had
could
stupefaction
happened.
the
of
common
some,
French.
said,
the
remain
to
the
moment
tlie
of
not
gate
see
himself
congratulations
in
of
of
the
that
defeat
14th,
bank
to
enthusiasm
hostile
most
Venice,
Napoleon
and
surprise
blended
were
easy,"
left
the
From
enter.
point,
the
on
expected
serious
any
be
of
gate
Porto
marched
secretly
by
wing
Vicenza.
Verona
triumph,
the
seventy-two
of
had
of
army
left
every
of
direction
who
the
the
the
Even
the
in
two
of
at
contest
liot,
El-
young
direction
defeated
gate
town
expected
conceive
and
Milan
Austrian
one
no
the
in
in
through
victorious
their
Bonaparte,
which
thi'ough
engaged,
bloody
retreated
they
At
was
enemy
killed
was
aides-de-camp.
were
by
November
the
There
right
exhausted
hours,
out
French
their
Lignano.
and,
Alpon.
Bonaparte's
afternoon,
at
tlie
BONAPARTE.
ESS
those
the
"
tants.
inhabi-
cold
of
our
delight
transport,
to
as
of
if
84
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
destroyhim.
November
Such
have
might
14, 1796.
been
his
thoughts,
day everything seemed
That
lost,
confidence,glory,the Consulate,
prestige,
Empire. The next day all had changed. It was
the
"
this moment
that
the creature
glance the
w^ho
that
as
of events
born
of his
and
had
are
thoughts.
usuallyhaunted
the cup
gloomy,
was
up
at the
ruled
the
was
by
man
Henceforth,
Where
could
the
he set
of
fatality
moment
same
dominion
universal
ambition
The
uncertaintyof
and
In
appeared
is
j^et he
his talk
sort
sad.
was
betrayed
his melancholy
of great ambition
fact, men
by
things is such
of glory seems
quaff it.
he
of fate.
triumphed,and
face
human
that
feelingof
grew
ruin, and
His
their
self
him-
Bonaparte
once
halt?
The
and
changed
the master
"
plans?
was
before him
thus
his ambition
limit to his
his power
who
man
course
could
where
thought
needed,
was
have
must
of
recrossingthe
impossiblefor a
a
Napoleon
at
of
when
melancholy
gratified.The emptiness of
that the draught which
fills
tasteless
to
even
those
who
the
this
shadow
their
great feats.
followed
are
struggles,
by
of death
hours
of
floats
moral
and
over
all
cal
physi-
exhaustion.
However
its sad
brilliant
side,and
the
the
victory,militaryglory has
sightof
AFTER
the
most
the
which
dying,
The
eager.
battle-field in
dead
were
still
unbroken
for
of
at
The
of mind, the
I
it was,
the
stoicism
afterwards
few
Emperor
went
battle-field made
and
such
and
aid
"
then
his
are
given the
;
at this
Was
it my
itself? whatever
anything
many
touched
of
by
and
this
I had
to
were
here
I would
death
What
.
have
us
How
all
l)y
terious
mys-
emotion
moved
dog's howling.
by
execution
cause
was
perhaps,in
gives
man
decide
to
were
me.
without
dry-eyedthe
watched
us;
is
on
spectacle.'This
nature
What
'
which
movements
lesson
state
abandoned
lies
impressions!
orders which
I had
sprang
impressionon
he
a
us
geance."
seeking ven-
has
never
an
here
of this animal
means
der
un-
towards
ran
and
the act
gaze
What
the
from
out
of the
and
moonlight
which
on
that
truly say
the bodies
times
place,the hour,
can
passing
was
utteringdoleful cries; he
asking
was
he
sprang
dog
to
stopped involuntarily
army
quered
con-
night,arouse
once
there
once,
face
He
again.
us
In
"
corpse,
his
arid
the
as
all his
which
Italy,on
lying.
returned
then
the
well
the
that
quiet,suddenly
the cloak
at
wounded
had
battle-field,
the
Helena
said at Saint
over
and
the
of tenderness.
moments
He
of
Napoleon,
on
impassibility
and
of
as
silence
echo.
melancholy
cries
conquerors
the
in
hear
85
ARCOLE.
to
of
a
and
the
great
deeply
is certain
been
very
gentle
86
CITIZENESS
to
restored
and
very
after
did
November
He
hotly contested
he
head
heard
of
joined
the
me
wound
The
often marched
died
desire
such
would
not
world
us
and
of
not
"
three
great pain,
his
the
bed,
Clarke
of
know
to
and
new
Your
"
He
war.
has
He
columns.
our
He
enemy.
happy
to leave
times
did
uncertain
our
not
life,
in that way
Who
is there
regrettedthat
stingsof calumny,
passionswhich
not
would
man
in
the
At
unconscious.
Who,
hundred
odious
conduct
to
contemptible?
thus escape
all the
rule men's
was
that."
reasonable
himself
is often
has
not
death?
deem
which
who
could
and
of the
What
moment.
in
action
Arcole, wlien
wrote
learned
front
day.
from
ground
on
the head
at
gloriouslyin
suffer
of
the
killed
had
man
young
wound,
victoryrequiredall
nephew, Elliot,was
This
to
day Bonaparte
same
the
sprang
bridge
him
entered
are
taking a position at
was
He
the
the
you
column.
on
courage
down
more
scarcely
and
his
lying
was
that
felled
assure
he
I have
twice
afternoon
when
Lannes
Verona,
battle-field
devotion
General
besides
the
was
suffering from
still
from
Carnot
to
Their
clearlythan
more
that of Arcole.
generals left.
wounded
itself
"Never
than
unprecedented.
in
wrote
19,1796:
clearlyhow
melancholy show
Arcole.
while
I understood
Hector's
Never, perhaps,
any
and
suppliant foe,
Achilles
re
BONAPARTE.
seem
of
he
of envy,
alone
to
AFTER
Physicalsufferingadded
stamped
was
tormented
skin
disease
the
siege of Toulon,
the
hands
of
the itch,and
and
when
loaded
himself
sixteen
first barrel
spite of
Arcole
was
he
moments
wonderful
to diminish
de
he
Paris
by
wife
24, 1796, he
lay
his
"
Soon,
I love you
arms.
this courier.
All
dear
my
madly.
happy."
word,
to
his
Then
he
left
wrote
to
longed-formeeting
him
with
he
had
this doubt
Your
she
surpriseand disappointment,
he
certain
from
rona
Ve-
hope
one,
Verona, without
hours
spend forty-eight
At
writing
am
Wurmser
is well.
needs
of
conqueror
wrote
defeated
Then
in
bath-tub,
no
could
^triumphs,the
November
beloved
to be in your
To
his
was
Napoleon's
to
being
that
his
Segur,that
end
an
of
of another
in mind
and
body.
suffering
doubted
Josephine'slove, and
anguish.
to his
to
the time
Yvan, who
there
of water
twelve
or
on.
In
was
only put
from
organization
about
General
by plunging him,
ten
was
real alarm.
at
afflicted with
nervous
later
still
was
rammer
was
At
which
caught
first attacks
the
told
cannon
his
years
1797 he could
and
the
system.
1796
seized
he
He
had
he
who
artillery-man
an
ailment, which
melancholy
which
poison disturbed
The
times.
the
to
Bonaparte'spale face.
on
by
87
ARCOLE.
was
husband
perfectly
sending
her
at
was
not
Milan.
there.
deprived of
hoped
her
would
this
be
88
nONAPAIiTE,
CITIZENESS
rushed
to
to your
see
heart
to my
you
dear
I arrive ; you
when
me
Napoleon.
makes
you
care
no
capricemade
you
indifferent.
town
one
balls;
not
were
you
"
Milan,
everything
up
from
I reached
"
thrown
travellingabout
are
you
having
rooms,
to press
you,
there
prizeof victory:
welcome
the most
you
go
away
for your
more
love
me
stancy
incon-
accustomed
am
to
to
expect it.
to
reason
Don't
[Frimaire]
.
put yourselfout
made
pleasure; happiness is
world
is too
When
is very,
Bonaparte
accept
those
the
your
The
whole
and
please you,
9th
your
in that
the
city.
"She
was
ceived,"
re-
ancient
interest,and
French
pursue
for you.
can
from
by
the
unhappy."
thus
lamenting, Josephine
had
thought it her duty to
she
invitation
an
until
very
was
Genoa, where
at
was
if it
happy
alone
husband
be here
where,
adhered
who
state
to the
scandal
to
of the
continued
assembled,
rigid Catholics, the company
de Serva, till a late hour
at a ball given b}^ M.
on
of a senator
Friday morning, despite the presence
having in
decree
fast
his
pocket,but
of the senate
day
upon
Another
by
venturing
to
enforce,a
of the
the occasion."
letter
28
not
"I
from
have
Berthier
Bonaparte
received
from
Genoa.
to
the
I
vember
Josephine,Nowarded
despatchesforsee
that
clearly
AFTER
didn't
you
have
time
pleasures and
kind
been
enough
I have
him.
you
or
misery of
make
the
to
do
reproaches,do
no
happiness of
knows
other
no
of you
I ask
lace to
to
weigh
of my
moment
over
that nature
you
I love
This
her
but
what
and
alone, to
annoy
you,
happy,
make
yourselfabout the
only in your life,and
am
heart.
me
Why
wrong.
When
I sacrifice
which
person
from
receive
to
your
cise
exer-
misfortune
is my
that might
qualities
I deserve
pect
ex-
thoughts, every
power
It
When
yours.
whole
your
of
affection
"
her
nate
fasciphine
Jose-
madly
give happy
them
sufferingupon
and
better
than
by, you
Fate
my
bright days
concludes
letter
Good
sorrow
no
and
alone."
this outbreak
;
to
has
love
Be
your
happiness
can
gold?
as
passionatelyeloquent
woman
the
love you
life.
to
offered
are
not
desires, all my
denied
respect and
is
to
lives
much
unhappy
has
;
me,
my
wrote
trouble
character, and
charms, your
do
like mine, I
all my
you
you
of my
not
as
has
interferingwith
done
Berthier
trouble, and
who
man
have
me.
nothing that
aim
all your
For
you.
would
for
me
whom
happy,
you
In
me.
that
pleasure-parties
man
interest
right to
show
worth
to
you
intention
the
not
am
write
anything
to
no
with
plans,or
to
amusements,
sacrifice
to
wrong
89
ARCOLE.
to
she ?
may
with
adorable
crowd
every
Josephine.
When
Who
there
serves
deis' no
IH)
( 7 ri'A hW
doubt
longer any
I shall hide
me,
I /m
/; TE.
she has
ceased
and
crushinggrief,
my
some
send
her, of
to
use
letter to
my
noy
possiblethat
be able to be of
open
Kss
be satisfied to
service.
some
kiss.
you
love
to
phine,
Oh, Jose-
"
Josephine !
A
few
peace.
at that
time, describes
after Arcole
''
him
day
few
of
aide-de-camp
headquarters in Milan
before
in
reception. The
parative
com-
his
was
living
was
parte's
Bonaof
moments
presented myself
who
palace,on
at
Milan, and
at
the
the
mander-in-chief,
com-
Serbelloiii
drawing-room was
degrees,and
of the
few
gratitudewhich
high officials
of the country.
His manner
was
pleasant,but his
so
haughty and piercing that I felt myglance was
self
he spoke to me.
I stammered
turn
pale when
out
listened
a
to
last he
the
mark
and
scarf.'
silence,with
in
said
his
This
eyes fixed
red silk,and
at
scarf,Avhich
was
was
that time,
Murat, who
had
general,was
no
Colonel
one
just been
for his
as
of the
English,"we
was
one
as
had
six
o'clock and
the
and
me.
get
distinguishing
aides, was
of white
eight aides-de-camp.
promoted
to
remarkable
ready Avit.
at
in the Memorial
"
the
for his
While
Toulon
of
post of
first
The
of them.
first batteries
read
me
he
on
Bonaparte
Junot, who
energy
worn
longer
on
thoroughly confused
back
'
Come
of
words
of the commander-in-chief's
At
and
expressionwhich
severe
At
and
name
my
was
bravery
ing
construct-
againstthe
Saint
Helena^
92
CITIZENESS
mental
lent
qualities,
which
Less
solid
Avere
brilliant
trusted
most
extraordinary."
than
Junot
He
was
his
death
the
under
the
fourth
Pole,
live
the
French
soldiers
These
showed
name.
the
courage
at
the
hoAv
Avell he
The
future
old
years
hour
fifth
and
and
already
SulkoAvski,
Avas
and
European
of
romantic
language.
Poland, and
siege of Warsaw,
and
Avas
of
brother
Avith
the
he
commander-in-
and
zeal
King
burden
Holland
reveiy,
danger.
devotion
heartiness that
had
simple,his
Avere
to
of
had
At
and
of
a
great
gentle
character
was
remarkablycool
the battle
been
old,
years
dangerous duties.
most
supported the
prone
of
land
Eng-
the
Avith the
manners
was
in
leon's
greetedby NapoThe
sixth
felloAV-countryman.
performed
serious,he
to
Lemerrois,
young
Bonaparte,scarcelyseventeen
nature, his
in
about
was
Duroc.
entrusted
he
cannon-ball
he
the
every
army,
as
aide-de-campAvas
chief,Louis
Napoleon's
privatecitizen
Tlie
spoke
having fought
having been wounded
was
by
adventurous, chivalrous,
"He
of
Bonaparte'sspirit
on
of Colonel
name
After
Avho
left
as
wounds.
an
character.
entered
killed
aide-de-campwas
with
but
Duroc,
aide-de-camp,
Palace, and
scarcelyseventeen
covered
ness
ful-
permission to
was
Marmont,
an
upon
The
third
friend.
deep
asked
the
and
the
so
interest and
an
most
to
Wurtschen;
embark
life
our
Marshal
at
to
character,was
later Grand
who
BONAPARTE.
of Arcole
of service
in
his
saving
AFTER
his brother's
Saint
at
The
life.
Helena;
seventh
skilful
Louis
"
who
The
confined
the
in
restoration, and
devotion
the
him
visited
her
last
Lavalette,later
was
the
second
execution
his
secure
him
sent
death
to
at
from
to
place
glorious death
Conciero-erie
saved
and
the
condemned
was
prison and
in
met
wife, who,
by
esca^DC,
dressed
out
in
clothes.
Bonaparte's staff
court, of
and
martial
society.
the
air.
Madame
could
made
of its young
happy
all the
prevent her
domestic
to
sojourn
at
wife's
in his
charming,and
was
command,
duties
that
the
of
from
husband
happiness.
Milan
all
It
was
young
representedhim
the
on
bridge of
Lodi
moment
before
his
never
to
men
took
her
husband
held
him
for
sittings;the
modesty and
then
was
not
up
sliort
He
"
military
lette
commander-in-chief," Lava-
chief
himself
during this
painterGros
the
The
of
sort
account
on
Bonaparte
the
government,
general.
"
elsewhere,
of
cares
giving
already a
was
exceptionalcharm
says
at
and
more."
me
just taken
had
only
of his
he loved
Croissier,a brave
had
Elliot,who
eighth
Postmaster-General, who
and
glory,"said Napoleon
"perhaps
cavalry officer
Arcole.
loved
aide-de-campwas
of the young
at
93
ABCOLK
on
few
age
his
them
urge
of
Madame
sit.
to
artist could
Bonaparte
her
minutes.
the
The
on.
was
present
enthusiasm
for
the
at these
artist's
hero, excused
94
this
CITIZEN
familiarity."
portrait
make
at
good
artists.
Milan,
subject
BONAPARTE.
ESS
thus
(Iros,
after
of
the
painting
battle
picture
of
of
one
Bonaparte's
Arcole,
of
might
our
ern
mod-
IX.
OF
END
THE
THE
Saint
Helena
Italian
of the
have
made
'But
who
those
at
about
reads
state
of
have
rested
If I had
things.
the
but I
always
necessityof winning
Early
in
1797
Bonaparte, who
a
and
the
marsh
Stendhal
the
had
describes
his
tories
dailyviche
None
must
he
all,'
at
some
gave
to
tance
Possibly; at a distriumphs and ignoresthe
'
had
any
had
danger in
pleasure,I
one
the
war
had
to
was
should
front of me,
forgottenin
once
new
caught
which
'
Majesty
at
Mantua,
near
exhaustion
Emperor, speaking
of it.
distance.'
Napoleon
famous, that
so
least' Your
at
were
one
in
it
with
replied.
and
and
campaign
had
which
said to the
We
"
had
he
which
this conversation
at
in the Memorial
Cases recounts
of Las
Count
CAMPAIGN.
THE
next
be
fever
in
filled the
army
appearance
at
the
day.'"
resumed,
and
by bivouacking
of
state
with
the
illness
despair.
time, with
drank
"
He
to his
is of
most
inspiredthe ^migr^s
beautiful yellow ! and they
speedy death.
"
"
Only
his eyes
95
and
their
96
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
piercing glance
announced
the
great
Tins
man.
for him
the confidence
of the army,
glancehad won
which
forgave him for his feeble appearance, loving
him
only the better for it. They often compared
their little corporalwith the superb Murat, and their
preferencewas
won
Austria
about
was
cities of that
of volunteers.
the
Empress
heard
thousand
the Paduan
and
of
lines
whole
the
Those
was
of
The
In
rain.
empire
effort.
final
had
embroidered
by
received
her
from
hands.
own
the
at
January
he
weather
had
was
the
on
cleared
after very
heavy
the
all ablaze
was
the
Adige
with
and
Lake
them.
the
the
Garda:
bivouac
The
forty or fiftythousand
to
morning at six, there were
next
of
eminence
Austrians.
fires indicated
The
The
sending battalions
were
of Vienna
region between
air
14th
Rivoli.
make
to
banners
Bonaparte
he
already
great glory."
so
great
had
generalwho
be at Rivoli
won
the 15th, he
the
was
before
battle of Favorita.
Mantua
In
three
the
16th,
days
the
END
THE
Austrian
OF
reduced
army,
to half
its
weakened
disorganized,
killed and
pletely
originalsize,com-
by
lost
multitude
had
s^na's division
marched
of
thousand
twenty-two
its artillery,
and baggage.
prisoners,
taken
men
had
wounded,
97
CAMPAIGN.
THE
Mas-
and
fought incessantly
for four days, marching by night and
fightingby
day. Bonaparte could boast that his soldiers had
surpassed the famous speed of Caesar's legions. The
"
he
legions,"
Rojnan
twenty-fourmiles
''
The
of
esteem
and
comrades
of
day ;
intervals."
the
fightin
at the
wrote
the
such
Carnot:
to
wrote
as
men
make
that
you,
of my
and
posterity,
conscience, and
also
to
thirtyand
make
men
He
few
our
time, "used
the
all,the
prosperityof
of my
state
my
own
country, alone
interest me."
surrendered
at
February 3, Wurmser
had accorded
honorable
Bonaparte, who
Mantua.
conditions
the
to
already
was
and
The
studied
indifference
himself
the
in
out
scene
the
general, was
tion,
of his humilia-
Romagna
when
which
his
forces,at
sword,
few
was
anxious
general
has
to
matter
days later
he
show
more
been
the
than
wrote
French
head
of
to
of his
he
troops.
Bonaparte
agreeablespectacleof a marshal
of
great reputation,the commander-in-chief
Austrian
Austrian
be present at the
unwilling to
and
venerable
nied
de-
of
the
staff,
giving
surpriseto
all
up
Europe.
the
Directory: I was
generosityto Wurmser,
"
whom
ceased
tune
forto
98
CITIZEN
"show
and
constancy
BONAPARTE.
ES8
that
courage
historywill
not
forget."
The
the
for two
sudden
because
you,
finished
country
is very
for the
leave
write
and
day.
do you
as
yet
Think
Ancona
"
different letters.
the
mountains.
Thousands
tino,he
are
one,
for you
the
from
wrote
don't
Don't
thought
Good
makes
me
it will
anything
you
dear.
from
sure
am
newspapers
to
once,
cross
desire.
earnest
most
of kisses."
signingof
love
sent
by, my
again
and
you,
is my
Bologna :
you
day
anything is settled,I
moment
write
wrote
never
line every
tired of
leaving at
am
that
me
so
I have
I
You
every
war.
thousands
and
ill ; you
Paris.
This
The
days before
three
walk
been
never
me.
and
shall send
nothing from
I hear
don't love
that you
take
send
to
hope
is afraid.
everybody
to-morrow.
ought
Besides, the
days.
February 13, he
me."
of
few
this horrid
with
am
by
for
send
yet ; but
done
mountains
I have
good.
the citadel
don't
Ancona.
is not
to
at
hostile, and
of you
beg
been
have
"We
captured
have
in
you
that with
little
work
our
be
it will
We
still at
am
pause
days.
prisoners. I
homes.
follows:
as
attack, after
hundred
to
came
continued.
Josephine
to
Ancona
a
See
Holy
wrote
Austria
with
war
to
"
me
your
very
the
You
;
February 16,
Treaty of Tolenare
you
gloomy
want
husband
unhappy.
to
any
you
go
to
more?
My
dear
low
100
CITIZENESS
He
compelled
the
BONAPARTE.
Pope
cede
to
time, he
unlike
wrote
the
"I
have
thank
been
kind
Holiness.
to his
the
enough
! The
to
convey
veneration
The
France
Holiness
write
have
glad to
All
the
for the
Peace
me.
Republic and
Europe
is
of
aware
Your
ness
Holi-
of the
of Rome.
I send
Holiness
which
the
day
same
letter which
to
the French
Your
same
and
during
of
conciliatory
disposition
French
friends
^t the
in the
to
personal repose.
pacificand
truest
am
Romagna,
But
Your
justbeen signedbetween
Your
of
language
must
the
tliis respectfulletter,quite
expressionscontained
courteous
has
him
to
usual
Revolution:
you
the
subsidy of thirtymillions.
pay
and
Avignon
the
my
aide-de-campto
unfailingesteem
person."
of Tolentino
peace
was
and
cluded,
con-
the following
February 19, 1797, Bonaparte wrote
letter to Josephine,who
then at Bologna :
was
Peace has just been signed with Rome.
Bologna,
ceded to the Republic.
Ferrara, the Romagna, are
The
Pope gives us shortlythirtymillions and many
"
works
and
of art.
thence
but
"
done
to
beg
Not
?
me
permits, come
take
word
from
think
only of
no
other
worthy
morning
of you,
To
know
make
for
health
your
I leave to-morrow
to
of
care
you
If
Ravenna,
or
youi'self.
Heavens
you, to love
Ancona,
Bologna.
Rimini
happiness than
of such
for
! what
have
only Josephine,
hers, does
cruel fate ?
My
all that
dear, I
THE
of you,
beg
You
be
my
heart
move
of
so
don't
little ?
How
believed
write
love
of marble
is made
have
not
often,and
you
101
CAMPAIGN.
THE
me
ill,or
you
I should
OF
think
must
think
has
END
me
alone
rule
know
it.
You
Ever
me.
to
ings
suffer-
my
know
to whom
me
nature
beauty,you
who, doubtless,
power
think
me,
you
Do
exercise
you
of me,
and
love
yours."
letter,dated
This
the
as
the
printedin
tense
the absolute
heart, write
my
little you
heart,you
my
well
only too
over
over
day.
Do
given intelligence,
gentleness,and
who
every
last written
by Napoleon
Josephine
to
to be
during the first Italian campaign. It is much
regrettedthat Josephine's letters to her husband
have not also been preserved; but it is fair to suppose
from
Napoleon's repeated reproaches,that his
wife
wrote
effusions of her
of him
cool
very
his
his
by
she
married
people, cannot
was
loved
became
him
We
should
Remusat
be
was
expressed
herself
letters
which
varies
love,
the
return
to
wholly
mistaken
this
delicate
the
emotions
on
betray
between
between
even
which
think
and
doubt
may
If
be
ardent, it may
inclined
not
we
commanded.
be
less
disappointedin
and
proud
was
dazzled
was
Still
success.
whether
Napoleon
glory,and
sentimental
She
passionatehusband.
she admired
fascinated
the
to
answers
because
his love
that
later
he
met.
Madame
de
she
thus
when
parte's
subject: "Bona-
despondency
of
and
jealousy
threats
of
1 0-2
iTiz
Then
violence.
KS
i':ss
find
we
o
/,'
I /M
/,'v/;.
gloomy thoughts,a
of
sort
had
met
were
him.
had
if he
man
he Avould
Perhaps
been
Moreover, it may
coldness
was
who
men
the
are
surrender, and
who
is like
love
herself be
deal with
to
She
war.
had
won;
been
she
struggle.
ground.
not
was
war
yet
and
tender,
liave loved
Its armies
were
her less.
exhausti
its in-
springing from
ever
Beaulieu, Wurmser
after
let
more
perpetuallyrenewing
was
tlie
she
yielded;
more
by
get
for-
conqueror,
Austria, with
over.
resources,
After
to
not
must
never
loving,possiblyBonaparte might
The
We
are
than
changing sky
doting love.
Josephine had
that
There
indifference
by
prefer a
of
blue
monotonous
that
fascinated
better
especiallybettei-,
that Josephine's
of calculation.
result
more
be
well
numbed
last be-
at
been
have
and
more,
loved."
and
upon
the
the
Wurmser,
This
Charles.
Alvinzy; after Alvinzy,the Archduke
his spurs in Germany,
German
prince,who had won
to Italy. Bonaparte,witli thirtythousand
came
men,
hastened
to
covered
mountains
crossed
the Piave
in the
at
Gradisca;
Trieste; the
he
him, in
encounter
with
;
the
battle of
a
few
Tagliamento;
captured Klagenfurt.
he
the
took
duke
Arch-
he arrived
soon
Laybach
from
prudence
over
13, 1797, he
the
Germany;
Whether
from
cold,
defeated
16th, he
days later
or
bitter
March
snow.
26th, he entered
physicalexhaustion
and
29th,
fatigueai:d
and
craft,he
ENJ)
77//';
felt that
the
enough
fame
of
hour
THE
He
struck.
he
now
lOo
CAMrAKrX.
had
peace
soklier
as
OF
was
had
won
to appear
as
peacemaker.
unrivalled
This
with
peace
carrying
branch
and
after
much
as
After
war.
on
fury,
France
was
who
flattered in
turn
kept
such
he
rest.
with
of the
the
time, and
Bonaparte
but
love
said
enough
harm
men
end.
.
the
throne,
which
you
often animate
determined
Germany
have
to
As
?
.
shall deem
glory which
its
an
letter,replete
few
days
effect.
In it
a
publication,
enormous
killed
we
humanity
at
last
after the
humanity
make
us,
enough
human
the
and
sixth
This
whatever
men
paign
cam-
may
thousand
few
to
come
war,
an
standing,
under-
passions,has
are
so
near
petty passions
governments,
are
of
which
for me,
if the
overture
the honor
life,I shall
of
love
ministers
deserve
man
Charles
superior to
so
olive-
even
everytliing,
and
in
glory, peace
must
range
ar-
shown
unhappy auspices;
Ave
since
an
after
and
more,
to
to
swords, the
glory and
Have
begins under
be its issue, we
had
had
"
peace.
and done
its
with
and
philosophy
fashion
moderation
how
he
as
crossed
Archduke
the
to
art
all aflame
close touch
wrote
understood
manager
of
104
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTEr
.
15,
April
Bonaparte
seized
the
twenty-five
Charles
acceded,
of
and
it
left
cession
of
to
Towards
Avas
Venetian
in
the
French
soldiers
seized
and.
May
Mark.
which
16,
of
Bonaparte
an
forts,
the
and
Italy,
of
order
against
the
returned
him
had
and
batteries
to
seen
d'Hil-
of
the
in
and
day
Baragney
flag
an
the
against
Leoben,
tricolor
had
to
war
General
lagoons,
ing
mak-
territory.
declared
had
massacred.
hoisted
3,
to
of
Venetian
declared
which
of
purpose
returned
May
he
preliminaries
the
he
ceded
be
to
gium
Bel-
consideration
the
April
Treviso,
Republic,
before
Saint
of
reached
published,
from
Austria
naries
prelimi-
conditions
the
in
parte
Bona-
the
Rhine
for
state,
Archduke
signed
the
Lombardy
end
the
liers
of
only
hostilities.
following
bank
independent
an
he
vance
ad-
were
The
of
18,
the
on
the
he
April
peace
indemnity
when
and,
Vienna.
suspension
His
French
the
from
leagues
Leobeii.
at
Semmering
requested
France
arrived
Venice,
Piazza
Milan.
of
X.
THE
spring of
THE
in the
1797
of
lives
the
two
he
from
all
and
as
its
crystals,
lofty colonnades,
of the
sets
vast
luxurious
most
before
Madame
its
with
of
his
Yvan.
Near
generalmade
Duke's
on
palace,
the ladies
militarycourt
and
few
in
pretty
Leopold Bertliier,
was
Eugene
Arnault
Milan.
Josephine and
Visconti, Madame
looked
sumptuous
Madame
harnais, on
under
have
to
graniteall sparklingwith
residences
were
The
to the
convert
drawing-rooms,
wide, long gallery,was
one
Bonaparte
us
drawing-room where
women
and
of emperors
then
was
liberty.
finished
of
proud
May,
attention
more
Serbelloni, a
Arcole, who
in
Serbelloni
the
in
residences
was
liberty,
of
Paris
attracted
the
of
of Italian
its blocks
small
its
of
the hero
the restorer
with
did
The
Josephine.
from
came
time
Duke
The
notions
roof
his
than
Europe
kings.
French
that
at
and
Milan, settled
at
Palace, which
was
Napoleon
PALACE.
SERBELLONI
every
de Beau-
page.
one
Augereau
X05
The
stood
up.
waited
for
106
the
glance,a word,
he
began
to
and
militarymatters,
and
with
now
that
is
animation,
given by
expression of
smile, by
of
of
added
and
the
then
of
listeners,and
he
"
That
his
character
it,or
the
perhaps
many
him
approach
others to
be carried off
an
and
He
obey.
by
he will be in exile
on
he
talkingfor
time, like
the
fatigue.
admiration
If he
the
authorityis
without
themselves.
is born
the force of
bears
him
to him
to
is not
bullet before
or
easily
whom
moment's
his
how
spite of
in
be
submit
people,who
expressionof respect
who
the
superiorgenius,to
notice
ings
feel-
how
those
everything about
You
authority.
by
is
man
to his
succumbs
felt
said to
left,Arnault
d'Angely :
had
one
no
est
the kindli-
manly voice,
conceive
standing all
steadily,
hours
As
and
just been
had
severe
conversation
He
desired to fascinate."
authority
deepestthoughts
to
possibleto
his
by
won
the
on
voice,
the warmest
melodious
be
it will
Bonaparte
two
reflects the
"
charm
serious
tempered by
passionateheart,
most
on
goes
face, the
and
powerful intelligence
most
be added
must
look which
with
now
is often
which
stories,
moment
one
singularlymobile
tell
to
remarks," Arnault
Souvenirs, "uttered
ered
gath-
group
philosophyand poetry.
the next,
of these
the interest
To
in his
of
The
slightest
sign.
Bonaparte, and
about
"
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
four
the throne."
the
stamp
nized
recoging
know-
What
men
command,
an
wear
as
lucky enough
years from
so
to
now,
108
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
it's
Italian
an
the barbarians
At
double
in
as
part
he made
he
of
use
wanted
her
by
the bond
was
said
of union
any
it not
the
with
The
of
with
the
Bonaparte knew
relations
plan
of fusion, which
most
wife, I should
of
tlie former
with
my
characteristic.
have
not
had
and
with
by
Thanks
how
there
to
Viscountess
of
Palace, recalled
the
of
Faubourg
receive
issued
Fructidor.
Beauharnais,"
into
the
traditions
contrast
the addresses
European
himself.
de
Serbelloni
exquisitegrace,
in marked
18th
to
my
the
approaching it."
the
drawing-roomsof
used
me
of
one
Beauharnais, in the
and
and
him
important principlesof
most
drawing-room
elegance
Augereau; when
old regime, Josephine,
Madame
for my
been
means
easy
as
royalism,
oppose
acknowledged this
administration,and
Had
to
of the
between
requiredfor
of
one
the ideas of
Napoleon, "brought
was
She
"
marriage
party which
all,'
they said,
are
wished
with
men
aristocracy.He
"My
he
cajolepeople
to
After
revolutionaryleader, now
When
conservative.
'
we
plans.
as
now
consideration
political
over
establishing
shall be avenged for the Gotlis.'
of great serParis, Josephine was
vice
husband's
to her
pride:
family that
; we
Milan,
the
the
most
brilliant
Saint Germain.
Milanese
the
exercised
formal
the very
nobility
etiquette
demagogic tone
Army of Italybefore
the
to
his
Italian
please both
the
sephine
Jo-
of
the
shrewdness,
sansculottes
THE
and
those who
was
be
to
than
would
another, for
; at
he
soon
he
time
one
some,
ardent
Brutus
Caesar.
he
and
for
taken
with
as
mounted
According
potentate.
There
is
in this
used
nothing
double
the most
himself, in confidential
This
appointed by
the
While
aspect.
revolutionary
talk
with
thoughts,he
not
was
for
come
took
scorn
and
have
not
with
the young,
any
failed
to
wound
charming
at the
it
was
that
she
to
his
such
his
were
The
time
had
Josephine,who
discord which
arise between
otherwise
the
general. Barras, by
with
the instructions
feared
been
out
Barras, helped,possiblywith-
indocile
discontent
them.
if
but
to hide
care
throwing
intimate
very
his
of the
had
commander-in-chief, who
profound
most
was
rectors,
already felt for the DiDirectory,
for Barras, his especialpatron,
especially
and
the
to
ing
interest-
more
demagogue.
the
Naples.
according to others, he
Bonaparte's lieutenants
language,
intriguedas
of Austria
be
a
study him
to
He
democrats
ambassadors
tribune
the most
109
PALACE.
knee-breeches.
wore
with
skilfully
At
SEEBELLONI
Bonaparte, w^ho
of the
friend
at
ing
express-
often
Directory,would
Josephine,who
festivities of the
continued
Director
have
was
Luxembourg.
Milan
the work
beyed
diso-
she
so
Thus
had
Bonaparte's
begun in Paris ; and in fact, she was
mainstay with the Directory.
at that time
Josephine was
thirty-four
years old.
and faded complexion was
Her somewhat
brown
dis-
110
CITIZENESS
guised by
with
and
rouge
defects
natural
by
gracefulmovements,
soft
and
eyes
and
all the
Moreover,
was
all the
and
involuntary;
have
understand
was
able
and
heart.
her
he himself
he
commanded
when
settingher
victories
air of
an
ceptional
ex-
coquetry, which
it seemed
natural
but another
was
so
of Versailles;
jewels that
old
queens
things enable
attractive
was
cap
not
us
to
woman
her
to
beauty
for him.
His
in
and
Milan
loyaltyto
''
most
delicate
on
her
gave
depended
hung
figure,
Bonaparte's intelligence
of
matter
forgottenhimself
her
her
dignifiedbearing,
because
over
there
movement;
fate
time !
remedied
absolutelyfaithful
was
partlya
was
cealed
con-
expression,her
person,
an
which
power
He
time
As
His
her
all these
"
exei'cise
to
not
was
every
refined
toilettes and
envied,
the
mouth
in dress
great taste
who
she
recalled
this at
her
her
indolence, which
an
her
conversation
might
attractive
more
her
of her
harmony
employed
elegance of
gentle voice,
charm.
fascination
teeth:
The
art.
she
of
smallness
of her
badness
which
powder,
her
BONAPARTE.
was
his
on
for
no
extremely circumspect.
conduct;
hour, and
an
more
than
he
how
might
many
have
of his
of
"
Many
years
later,at the
time
of his coronation
at
attracted
his
singer,Grassini,
THE
attention; circumstances
her, and
for
she
her
first appearance
talked of
one
of the
then
the Su7i.
alone
When
not
fall
when
alone
reallywas
Avas
No
Virginsof
general
interested
me.
somebody, and
now
of
one
all
your
let them
you
of you
longer worthy
no
"
first
talent.
young
it all for
it,and
win
am
The
he
feet, I scorned
could
Italy.
in the
me
one.
every
Italyat my
glances. I
me
of
quaintance,
ac-
made
of his
beauty and
indifferent,and
strange !
on
of my
had
time
of
sent
speedy
she
that
Army
anything except
I charmed
was
How
him
exactly the
at
commander
exploitsas
of
first moment
reminded
he
less austere;
were
after the
Ill
PALACE.
SEBBELLONI
or
them,"
In
as
happy,
May, 1797, Bonaparte was relatively
of his ardent and
restless
happy as could be a man
to
not
nature, for whom
peace and happiness seemed
"
exist.
few
days
had
been
enough
to
restore
his
and
strengthafter all his emotions, fatigues,
perils.
The
his wife were
suspicionshe had felt about
speedilydissipated;and Josephine at last became
accustomed
and
her
for the
As
its
where
she held so loftya position,
Italy,
pride was thoroughlygratified.
to
French
triumphs.
has
written
all young
each
more
There
was
wild
with
joy over
Stendhal
its Paradise.
seemed
most
picturesque descriptionof
and
beautiful
the
was
Milan
it
army,
the
loving,the
and
more
promenade
officers and
soldiers
ladies of Milan
amiable
of the Corso
than
on
this
were
another.
the bastion
112
CITIZENESS
of the eastern
gate, that
and
plain;
day
every
forty feet
fashionable
there
the
"
old
and
chestnut-trees
with
BONAPARTE.
the
society used
in
women
above
low
green
to
meet
carriages called
hastardelles.
Before
the French
never
been
Corso
than
more
afterwards
reached
army
lines
two
there
carriagesin
the
always four,sometimes
were
the whole
six, filling
the
the
centre
singleturn,
at
cavalry officerswho
they
objectsof
were
But
when,
the
Ave
the
as
Maria^
fashionable
Corsia
be
used
the
were
be
the
on,
labyrinth:
infantryofficers.
and
the
at
the
the
Some
of
have
was
the
ball at
received
the
in their boxes
have
casino
The
number
of
venti to
despairas
on
with
the
young
The
conquerors.
officers who
pit
was
ser-
showered
also
filled
happy enough to be
not discouraged
; but they were
tender and respectfulglances
were
attentions
of
there
the
theatres
French
they saw
leagues to
ten
come
ladies of Milan
of
of
caf^
the
Fridays,when
closed, there
the
infantry officers
entrance
of
hour
the rendezvous.
to
comes
this
into
the
de" Servi.
at
to
envy
cafe, then
innings
dash
evening
ladies, without
their
could
not
THE
the
on
like
suit
through
them
nearer,
at
then
the
they
"
"
distance
through
of
were
primavera,
gioventu^
spring,
youth,
other
youth
of
springtime
look
at
they
which
brought
happiness
delV
della
the
year
of
anno
life
vita
"
"
their
them
which
opera-glasses,
with
primavera
shone,
If
if, however,
gioventu
scarcely
where
would
end,
filled
bullets
They
their
knew
and
worshipped.
ladies
end
large
off
them
put
at
the
shells
boxes
they
these
who
woman.
the
to
whom
hopeless,
was
of
eyes
ladies
the
stars,
Men
face
before
their
raise
to
adoration.
the
in
trembled
and
blushed
dared
fear
of
shadow
no
their
of
objects
113
PALACE.
SERBELLONI
looked
them
XI.
THE
COUIIT
OF
hot
weather
the
WHEN
of
Montebello,
of
rich
hill from
which
holding a
court, which
under
of
leagues from
there
plainsof Lombardy.
months,
the
the
the
that
sort
of
In
airs of
he
had
in
surrounded
the envoys
the
taken
in the most
by
the
of the
Republics of
eyewitness,the
114
the
at
view
the
over
of
the
top
monarch.
brief
so
so
time
before,as
Nice
at
an
of
eign
sover-
court
already
Every
one
dered
won-
acquired such
great influence
in
Europe.
unknown
an
eral
gen-
tute
desti-
army
ministers
Pope,
Genoa
Count
of Austria
of the
and
wide
castle
There
command
and
everything,
conqueror
Milan,
Republican general,called
was
the
the future
Italians,discerning
Montebello.
assumed
set
their quarters at
up
few
MONTEBELLO.
King
and
of Sardinia, of
Venice, he had
Italy. Let
Miot
de
Naples,
us
become
hear what
Melito, says
"
It
116
CITIZEN
Madame
and
Duchess
of
with
of
Naples.
that
cityin
It
had
Letitia,who
Genoa
Elisa, later
daughtei-s:
Caroline, afterwards
1797
the
:
when
moment
very
full
Senate,
If, within
"
of this
I send
shall
Frenchmen
in your
Ministry; if
French
the
arrested
are
who
men
Genoa
against the
disarm
this
when
by
the
shall
not
French
will
it shall have
be the
have
had
people
do
of
not
first to
perceived the
into which
the
all
disposition
if,finally,
you
tion
recepof my
one
exciting the
are
27,
May
placed
prisonat
you
populace,which
againstyou
have
not
Doge,
after the
to you
of
one
the
to
letter, dated
twenty-fourhours
letter,which
who
Lavalette,
handed
this
aides-de-camp,you
of the
Queen
excitement.
had
Bonaparte'saides-de-camp,
before
Marseilles
tremendous
the
was
and
from
just come
of her
two
Tuscany,
As
BONAPARTE.
ESS
rise
terrible
of the
led
Minister
of the
and
aristocracywill haj^eexisted.
"
leave
The
the
it,
Genoa,
heads
errors
the
of the Senators
securityof
the united
states
beg of
property.
confidence
in the
consideration
of the
you
French
will
in
are
to
Genoa, and
which
esteem
I nourish
for
and
Your
the
me
of
feelings
will
Republic
guarantee
who
will
have
consequences
their
perfect
distinguished
Highness's
person."
Never
Senate
before that
Chamber.
wild
excesses
day
The
had
stranger entered
excitement
probable.
Since
of
the
the
dered
city ren-
Bonaparte
had
COURT
THE
received
not
his
Italy of
taken,
been
the
letter
orders
no
them, and
great
and
sense
here, so long
of my
my
arrival
an
holds
son
the
the
stay with
to
was
of
case
of
woman
nothing
fear
to
leading citizens
Go
back, and
of
tell him
I shall continue
morning
to-morrow
uprisingof
could, in
I have
"
in
Le-
was
he
as
hostages.
as
of
arrival
Madame
given.
Bonaparte
courage.
as
Republic
well
as
the
precautionshad
first thought
Madame
attack; but
been
the victim
defend
to
sisters,no
had
Lavalette's
populace.
117
MONTEBELLO.
announcing
and
mother
might easilybe
titia
the
OF
without
accident, and
quarters
at
the
the
highly pleasedto
was
and
power
glory.
was
her
see
of
Liberator
crowned
of
was
not
respect
Italy.
.
head
novelty to
was
a
mind
experiencedits
of
him
by
them.
disappointed
and
Honor
his owm,
which
married
to the
cares
all
He
woman
Power
and
they
had
or
risks
around, and
was
in the
the
three
in his
every
named
that
lage,
vil-
of
had
flower
of his heart.
before
years
he had
high hopes
he
the
full relish
his, and
was
much
peculiarmark
beyond
and
two
woman,
says
town,
every
him, whom
to
pining in obscurity.
formed
Scott
itself by some
distinguish
and
homage
proud
enjoying so
Sir Walter
As
"
of
very
son
their
up
of Montebello.
castle
Letitia, who
Madame
took
day
next
not
of
were
yet
youth,
Above
all,
118
he had
the
to
even
of
glow
that
aware
dominion
and
and
able
the
Lake
and
it
the
the
meal, the
castle
played militarymarches
At
the
next
girl of sixteen,
Madame
Leclerc.
She had
the
her
me
to
down
her knee
her
on
which
her
the
she
when
gambols,and
herself
brother
next
used
minute
men
the
authorityof
the
she
in
become
to
the
was
most
est
prettilous.
frivo-
chattering
schoolgirl,
and
people,making
nothing,
faces
at
looking,poking
tion
pay enough atten-
not
was
not
every
now
she
During
Bonaparte,
also the
I did
to
in
airs.
patriotic
soon
"
was
of those
one
life
best band
everything
serious
sister-in-law when
with
was
of
manners
most
there.
Pauline
If,"he says,
continually,giggling at
imitatingthe
to
of Montebello
and
to
who
world, she
in the
person
"
on
perpetual
give
Guides, the
the army,
sat
of the
ments,
entertain-
this
"
dinner
of the
poet
ao-ree-
interesting. Arnault,
was
Souvenirs, describes
band
that
excureions
pleasures,which
his
then
yet
fully
excellence
Como,
fulness, made
fascinatingas
table
not
most
springtime,the
Lake
and
duties
variety and
as
The
of
had
spirit."
then
was
of the
beauty
of
vexation
of Montebello
Maggiore
round
he
terminate, when
picturesque place.
climate, the
and
wishes
marshallinghim
was
and
possessionbringssatiety,
earthlydesires
The
which
Hope,
exalted
more
become
all
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
terrible
crush
would
commander
and
then
bringing
glanceswith
the most
obdurate
begin again,and
of
of the Army
COURT
THE
OF
before
Italy succumbed
119
MONTEBELLO.
giddinessof
the
young
girl."
dinner
After
back
coffee
drank
they
on
the
parte
drawing-room till late,and Bonatook
part in the general conversation : he
of the company,
arranged the diversions
making
Madame
Leopold Berthier sing,and asking General
going
to
for stories
Clarke
fantastic
and
and
told
he
incidents,terrible
terrifying
ghost stories,which
by using his voice in a
have
the
envied.
At
later
months'
stay
Duke
hopeful,and
was
of
and
pleasures alone
the
frankest
occurred
to
and
mar
of
strangely
ablaze with
his
me," says
"of
What
it
was
this
us.
cordial
We
duties
ojir
all
and
then
desired
and
progress,
mont
master
for
was
describes
in his
every
by
at
his
were
enjoyinga
him
on
nothing
Surrounded
harmony."
three
tion
Then, ambi-
were
terms,
Mar-
busy, important,
importance ;
occupied
and
servants
the
on
of
many
dance
to
Ragusa,
time
minor
most
our
the
was
to
recur
happy
thing
through
seemed
Montebello
at
evening
field
might
actor
an
or
memories
the
the
every
of fire-flieswhich
many
mont,
of
tures,
adven-
impressive
more
that
Milan
to
turf,springingfour
made
way
country, for
thousands
"How
he
end
the
guests returned
illuminated
himself,preferring
some
this
only
moment
concord,
peace,
of calm.
period,with
attitude,his expression,and
the
Marair of
his voice,
120
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
and
in
and
augment
public neglectingno
the
opportunityto
universal
his
of
fun, yet
mother, his
sisters,his aides-de-camp,
pearing
ap-
affable
kindly,
fond
maintain
pointof familiarity,
offensive,taking part in the
to the
even
never
and
sports of his fellow-officers,
persuadingthe
Austrian
solemn
to join in them;
plenipotentiaries
of new
eloquence a number
utteringwith uncommon
and interesting
ideas, in a Avord, possessingat that
sible."
happy time a charm to which no one could be inseneven
"
"
As
for
Josephine, whose
naturallyher
the
she
one,
every
next
part
Milan, gatheredabout
urbanity,the
with
she
this
by
surrounded
and
woman,
the
crown
'
prophecy
adored
was
her, and
this
Memoirs
the
Marquis
be
to
who
man
of her
had
the
anecdote
of
exquisite
old
than
aroused
at
teller
fortunea
queen.'
She
once?
universal
could
tion,
admira-
delighta
^
produces."
sometimes
to
which
concerninfjGeneral
Colbert
realized
not
highest,
drawing-room.
more
by everythingthat
her brow
The
unfailing kindness
the
will be
You
Bonaparte continued
and
admired
leaving Martinique,an
was
ha(}told her,
Was
to
intelligentladies
most
tact, and
rare
attracted
amiability
speak,to play
sovereign.
as
which
"When
trying,So
was
beautiful, the
most
and
grace
de Chabanais.
be
fascinated
his
tells will
Arnault
Auguste
by
de
wife,
show
Colbert, by his
son,
THE
COURT
Josephine's
power
When
sorrow.
Terror, she
reminded
she
had
children
to
One
day
at
was
to
You
"
bite the
turn
was
dogs.
wife's room,
erness
gov-
he
made
his
but
parted
I wanted
At
he
so
great
faults
had
killed
few
walking in
the
the
days
the
cook
afterwards
garden,and
"
he
stand
under-
leave,
to
Insolent
he
was
everybody,even
imprudence
unhappy
it with
cook's
the
dating,
accommo-
leg."
to bite
used
from
there,"
to
this
on
had
Montebello
not
was
of
put him
to
given
was
his
lying on
was
that fellow
see
favorite
despair,and
ruined.
the
of the head
in
he
I married
When
continually
barking and
to
the
to
be
never
Montebello
other
always
yielded. The
and
news.
would
his mistress.
that I
and
all the
Josephine
rival.
jailerwas
9th
Bonaparte
him.
the
at
After
of my
out
the
her
see
letter with
sofa with
is my
Her
in
pet.
said
of
concealed
Thermidor
her
to
of
Reign
elsewhere.
her; and
with
great
Viscount
It occurred
meetings.
Fortune
the
the
come
but
of
Josephine's cell,carrying
to
a
permission to
take
from
little
extremely
time
incarcerated
was
these
at
present
of
had
was
imprisoned,in
was
their governess,
office,with
collar
She
she
her
separated
was
Beauharnais, who
way
her husband.
over
fond, though he
121
MONTEBELLO.
dog
pug
OF
with
one
Josephine
thought
he met
fled in terror.
the
"
self
himeral
gen-
Why
122
do
from
away
run
you
"Well?"
"I
of
sight
"
Let
"
him
perliaps
he
and
will
wilful
and
win
battles,
do
could
not
put
of
dog
out
of
has
as
he
wants
The
intimidated
or
the
destroy
room.
tlest
genthe
might
Bonaparte
men.
create
sets
never
too."
him
him
Madame
much
Creoles
of
despotic
miracles,
as
the
you
since
with
way
indolent
most
most
he
make
in
"
"
hate
he
General,
come
parte.
Bona-
did
Haven't
especially
"
asked
would
you
me,
"
dog
my
dog
garden,
"
another
Your
way
that
"Excuse
the
this
what
afraid
me."
in
paw
after
was
longer?"
any
in
me
General,
"
BONAPABTE.
CITIZENESS
states,
but
124
CITIZENESS
the
always
eral
was
the
terror
who
had
of
the
BONAPARTE.
of the
man
13th
reaction, the
shattered
the
Venddmiaire,
sturdy Republican
Royalist bands.
He
thought
time
decided
consequently he
of the
his
upon
that
with
the
at
Milan
under
for
orders
gave
of
Jacobins.
This
Paris
versary
anni-
an
great militaryfestival
and
which
army
festival
to
as
serve
perfectharmony
in
and
make
so
many
impression
an
prologue
democratic
contained
to
was
hibit
ex-
purely Republican
sentiments
in
troops
aspect, and
tliat
18th
the
to
Fructidor.
This
is
drawn
1.
up
At
of
programme
by
salvo
At
of
it
as
was
"
twenty of
the
largest
the festival.
announce
general shall
The
festival
the
the commander-in-chief
daybreak a
shall
cannon
2.
be beaten
the
ten, when
in the
at nine
ing.
morn-
salvo
shall be fired.
3.
third salvo
shall
the commander-in-chief
and
the
another
same
time
peut-on itre
4.
At
salvo
noon
the
announce
for the
scene
shall be fired
all the
bands
on
shall
departure of
of the
festival,
his arrival.
play
the
At
air, Od,
mieux?
JULY
some
in
about
square
then
brigadier-general;
and chief of brigadein the
adjutant-general
then
Dubois
for
each
division
Germinal, Year
23d
the
cannon
and
La Harpe, Stengel,
generals,
of the
one
first six
Then
Pyramid.
125
MILAN.
form
will
manoeuvres,
AT
The
will
bardy
give
flagsto
the
battalion,and
each
6.
The
shall
men
of meat
rations
7. The
and
double
receive
8. Then
and
there
be
will
at
firing
by
cise.
exer-
target.
match
drill and
with
prizesgiven to
followed
rapiers,
with
double
wine.
will be three
and
pay,
First,artillery
practice; then
There
six
presents them.
he
cannon
division of Lom-
the
general commanding
broadswords
three
foot-race with
prizes.
regimental bands
9. The
dance-music, and
the
shall
be free to
stroll about
them
to
10.
Oflicers who
race
course
will
the horses
At
Country
shall
play
and
tunes
soldiers,having piledtheir
the
until
drums
arms,
recall
the ranks.
for the
11.
shall
must
be
horses
own
have
from
and
them
the
names
shall be
to enter
registered.The
country-house from which
their
nightfallthe
care
Pyramid
illuminated, and
dances.
play patriotic
to
the Arch
and
bands
the
umph.
of Tri-
Altar
of
placed about
126
CITIZEN
It
his soldiers
among
the Italians,that
among
of
not
was
BONAPARTE.
ESS
of
and
arms
of Milan
alone, it
Bonaparte developed
physicalexercise.
The
transformed.
was
In
whole
the
also
was
love
tion
popula-
schools, the
streets, the
in children's games,
tion,
educadraAving-rooms,
habits,and publicopinion,there was
a
com})lete
no
change. At the theatre the Italian was
longer
beaten
as
represented
the Italian
Warlike
took the
serenades.
14
July
his
He
of
men
32d
the
embroidered
of
This
On
alism.
the
names
the
of
celebration
recalled
for their
have
to
"
Avhen
happy
at
was
ease
sole reward
those
regimentalflag.
fcAV
the
words
In his account
spoken
of the
"
rible
ter-
for
one
the
was
inflamed
the
Mars, which
since
pyramid
was
rose
the
men
battle
in the
decorated
Avho
with
of
anger
against Roy-
high pyramid
funereal
pride and
great manifestation
the sides of
field of honor
This
and
Terrible."
The
it
women.
the
celebration
the army;
And
Favorita, he had
l)ythis
"
Lonato
at
asked
57tli,"and
name
"
their
on
of the battle of
its losses
said
Milanese.
Every regiment
had
there !
was
the
never
was
the German.
away
Consequently,this
soldiers.
memories.
the 32d
was
it
placeof religioussongs
enraptured the
Bonaparte
among
drove
matador
militaryspiritfascinated
marches
amorous
the German
beat and
air and
martial
of
who
by
were
had
of
inscribed
fallen
on
Montenotte.
middle
all the
of
Field
attributes
JULY
representingthe
of
emblems
AT
of
liberty,
the
indivisible,and
of the
After
manoeuvres,
different
around
square
wounded
the
marched
the
reached
front
of the
he
Verona,
your
at Verona
eyes
the
"
of your
;
officers of each
The
forward
went
to
in the
army
was
went
up
saved
who
It is easy to
with
the
garrisonat
their
these
''
said
Let
this army
tears
ran
tyranny."
proud, of themselves,
crowd
down
banners
their
"
always
to
the
While
Regiment
belong
have
to
an
togetherin
men
defence
of
enthusiasm
and
band,
the
General, you
the hundred
imagine the
wounds
"
fied,
satis-
Citizens," said
the 9th
proud
men,
will make
before
be
must
fore
be-
see
murdered
flags.
to
men."
soldiers,you
libertyand victory!
Republic !
liberty."And
thousand
formed
the
glad
am
regiment,preceded by
Your
army,
compose
covered
light
comrades
Bonaparte,and
to
France.
the
of
perishedwith
receive
of
Regiment
invincible
Save
path
had
three
he
tyrants have
the
When
troops.
Brave
Then
incessant.
carabineers, I
"
in
Drums
troops.
was
13th, which
names
the
by
worth
are
exclaimed,
the
you
alone
you
III.
and
veterans
of the 11th
Brave
"
and
of the Year
The
cannon
the
as
troops formed
the
the
the carabineers
you
In
of
well
as
Republic one
Constitution
l)y,saluted
he said,
infantry,
see
French
})yramid.
were
127
MILAN.
of these
their
heroes,
justly
triumphs,
128
and
with
indignant
did
Frenchmen
glory and
and
so
and
which
sarcasms
bkish
to
certain
this
all
against
utter
sacrifices,so
wonders.
their
carried
the
not
all these
many
powder,
BONAPARTE.
ESS
CITIZEN
unselfishness,
much
fumes
the
Inspired hy
of
by
away
crowd, and
the
grand militaryspectaclebefore
their eyes, by the clash of arms,
the sightof the flags,
of artillery,
the roar
the trumpets, the drums, and the
14th of July, Bonaparte's
patriotichymns, on this warm
of the
soldiers
blasphemous
In
the
To
defamers
to
Formbio
of
May
us
their
libertyand
he
dinner
gave
Dubois, who
died
who
men
of the ambushes
be
set
near
by
Constitution
of
Directory of
the
the
us
the
III., and
Year
Republic !
French
will
Avarn
try."
coun-
our
the
"To
toast:
the
to
and
liberty!
of
of
enemies
the
the field
on
They
Berthier's
General
was
fell on
defence
in
toast:
Roveredo
at
the
to
proposed this
died
the
glory.
Stengel,who
Harpe, avIio died
of La
spiritsever
This
against
of the brave
field of Mondovi
of
of
veterans, at which
the shades
wrath
with
evening Bonaparte
officers and
"
wild
were
executive
and
of the
Republic,and
Revolution, who
band
played Ca
all scarred
with
no
ira.
it crush
may
longer mask
This
wounds,
was
who
of
the toast
had
lost
"
of the ^migr^s !
re-endgration
of
Lannes, still bearing the marks
the
themselves
limb
"
The
veteran,
:
"
To
Toast
of General
three
wounds
he
JULY
received
had
Arcole
at
Clichy!
revolutions.
May
Club
of
fall
assassinated
"
The
the
To
their
of the
wish
They
more
patriotsthey have
!
heads
own
of the
destruction
!
wretches
the blood
on
129
MILAN.
AT
"
The
band
played a charge.
In the
the
the Moniteur
This
who
of
Paris
more
to
it,and
shall
villains, you
have
and
fightyou
to
recollection
of
liberty.And
masters'
it.
have
we
than
more
true,
You
.
but
astute, faithless,
in
Does
that
shall
we
perished."
for war?
anxious
are
"
liberty;
Is it then
"
division
to
will have
Augereau
you
inserted
opened by Republicans
faithful
enemies
were
difficulties than
It will be
remained
Division
that
present
No.
have
defend
which
of
12.
August
of Massena's-
Vienna
to
addresses
is the address
the road
divisions
Directoryby Bona^^arte,and
the
to
different
the
day
Italyhad signed
of
Army
sent
of the
course
conspirator,
shall
You
all,you
are
have
it;
crafty,
cowards
are
the
steel,virtues,courage,
of
our
you,
of your
contemptibleinstruments
who,
crimes, you
in
your
delirium, dare
to
believe
;
of war,
and
word,
who
have
death
the
lot
From
tremble
Sei^e is but
for
made
of
from
walls
your
you,
the
in
the
the
far
Adige
step ; tremble
to
the
Your
Rhine
and
the
iniquitiesare
130
CITIZENESS
counted, and
BONAPARTE.
their reward
is at
the
point
of
our
bayonets.'*
Division
Bernadotte
souls
generous
fact is true,
national
be
to
appeara
are
speak !
The
it, to
picture of
Division
and
at
the
with
Division
them
them
revoltingto
any
Republic !
to
from
the
to
who
polluted the
exist.
to
summon
the
It will
and
Meuse.
of
honor
our
of the
armies
We
brave
Rhine
yearn
France
purging
I the odious
from
shame
Capet
nation
to
of
under
the
yoke!
citizen whom
much
nation,
more
love
to
so
If this idea
of
country
the
is
has
soldiers
old
"
Baraguey
of hatred
of the Year
Delmas
who
Republican phalanxes,would
our
d'Hilliers:
to
"We
the
renew
the factions,of
war
Division
soil of
doubtless
of
some
the
What
"
touched, how
death
conspiratorsvanish
parades his
bring
oath
but
of Sambre
always pursued by
solemn
have
from
Joubert
Division
the
foes."
its crudest
of the
such
led
aid, you
ceased
arms
Moselle, and
once
assured
chiefs who
same
wretches
them,
in
companions
now
but if the
which
arms
and
"
will have
share
sensitive
livkig."
S^rurier :
Speak,citizen Directors,
speak ;
suffice to crush
to
tion
constitu-
the
once
freedom
and
same
With
the
see
Our
believingit ;
to
averse
independence,the
wish
Republican
threatened.
phalanxes,still exist.
to
"The
to
the
the Constitution
III."
:
"
We
have
sworn
to
defend, to
132
speak,the inspiringspiritof
to
SO
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
intimate
already,in
convei*sation,indicating
he
was
his
and
plans of dictatorship
de
very
curious
revelation
Montebello
says, "at
took
Bonaparte
"
with
both
us
there
:
almost
incessantly.
said, is nothing. I
'
of my
here
the
a
Do
career.
Italyfor
in
million
Do
What
!
men
It is
but
others.
What
the
vanity;
which
but
at the army.
given the
French
for him.
me
from
my
The
and
and
the
it and
not
pass
in
triumphing
lawyers of
the
vices,is such
our
that
fascinates
like
away
have
we
and
shall
we
a
let themselves
least.
am
of
deposing
is
by
of government,
Give
they will
amuse
tation,
repu-
don't
rattle,and
themselves
be led, providedthat
ter.
mas-
phrases,
the French
them
have
thing
every-
who
see
illustrious
man
for theories
satisfied ;
the
many
alreadywon
Directorythink
demands
the
so
nothing of liberty.Look
establish
to
was
of
glory,the gratification
is
victories
Let
beginning
republic of thirty
speeches of theorists,which
understand
they are
will
command,
nation
chimera
they need
they know
The
it
morals,
our
been
talked
far,'he
so
the
at
dens
gar-
lasted about
done
gloryof
idea !
an
vast
general
I have
think
you
With
thing possible?
French,
think
Melzi, and
walk
only
now
be," he
to
and
the
Count
noticed
in the
I have
the greater
Directory?
republic!
time
am
you
walk
Our
What
'
happened
long
the
be
is to
Bonaparte
In
empire.
M^ilito's Memoirs
Miot
one
with
hides
JULY
towards
end
the
AT
which
133
MILAN.
leads
one
them.
party
...
is
to
contribute
its
to
the
weaken
party
keep
shall
mean,
but
for
not
I
I
triumph.
and
Meanwhile,
Bourbons.
the
Republican
advantage,
own
of
favor
in
moving
in
line
not
shall
the
with
mean
day,
some
it
of
that
do
be
old
the
for
to
my
dynasty.
Republican
party.'"
had
He
was
at
the
betrayed
Revolutionary
and
for
that
the
he
by
sending
"
party,
We
who
may
say
possessed
exhibited
the
and
that
skill
de
the
and
day
these
Melito
Paris
genius
craft
of
his
he
direful
circumstances,
Italian
most
tlioroughly
fatal
most
thus
his
of
eyes
most
the
leader
this
to
and
more,
young
the
of
full
in
all
the
Augereau
Fructidor,
18th
years
assumed
before
aspect
few
Miot
to
that
thoughts,
that
moment
very
imprudently
secret
for
dissimulate
to
army,
prepared
to
the
tionary
reac-
results.
Bonaparte,
and
Machiavelli.
astuteness,
it
XIII.
BONAPAKTE
1797
IN
AND
Bonaparte
that
not
they
threatened
they
desired
to
with
things the
he
de
of the
I have
been
"with
Remusat,
having
was
necessary
Revolution, and
not
What!
consent
to
House
of
misfortunes
all
have
silenced
return
our
by
us
Change
flag,which
had
standard!
And
134
not
as
to
get
would
after
we
victorious
feared to
for me,
all
fact, he
was
Madame
to
18th
the
supporting
Fructi-
the
lution.
Revo-
profitfrom
some
be shed
have
had
was
to
the
us
departure, and
shown
flag for
mingle
I
reproached
their
tlie
in vain.
unconditionallyto
the desire
our
above
day
one
favored
surrender
who
dignati
in-
Apparently
in
Bourbon,
with
said
for
me
that
Empire.
he
blamed,"
but
His
Avas
ambition.
Republic ;
own
Royalistswas
throne.
reaction
personal
foundation
laying the
"
Royalist
the
to
way
the
ever,
how-
for his
Republicans,
the
of
but
in the
the
his
defending
was
Republic
bar
result
FRUCTIDOR.
Republican, not,
he condemned
What
advantage.
was
of the
account
on
18TH
THE
with
be
for their
the
the
white
enemy's
pacifiedwith
AND
BONAPARTE
is
how
known
if it had
that could
necessary,
and
perhaps the
been
whom
he sent
in
the
to
been
to
But
at
to
the
mission
confidence,
and
the
the
his
social
Paris,
to
the
18th
the
man
official representative
the
Directory as
same
capitala
"
preparationsfor
his army,
time
he had
man
in whom
sent
on
he had
those of
were
the
on
the
policy,and
titles of
ribbons
the
to be
was
later to enable
prince and
duke
and
endow
Convention,
to
of Austrian
to former
to
of
the
most
Josephine'sold
for himself
appear
to
mined
deter-
the
quell
plotting
was
to
give the
of the
members
the
broad
Through Augereau, he
ardent
secure
ners
man-
of the
man
with
regicides
orders.
confidence
Emigres and
recent
Royalists.Already, in fact,he
domestic
the
perfect
Lavalette,whose
aide-de-camp,
relations
and
suburbs,Auge-
itself
general,the
reau.
and
best counsel
have
Republican feeling of
Jacobin
to
time
manifested
never
game
official envoy
His
of the
won
second
would
them
given
double
clearlythan
Fructidor.
on
thoroughly
Bourbons
have
There
"
rid of me."
more
old
have
the
Bonaparte's
as
should
other
or
dethrone
to
been
duchy
I
135
FRUCTIDOB.
ISTH
some
certain:
thing
one
get
and
millions
few
THE
friends.
benefits
its
democrats
families
His
of the
excesses.
of the
plan was
coup
d'etat,
By sending
136
Augereau
rid
of
he
ways
displeasedhim
got
is
going
for he
The
he wrote
;
don't
would
his army
because
is
this double
as
look
could
who
those
about
Directorywas
to
Madame
de
weak
Lavalette
goings
words,
was
and
all
were
Bonaparte
already visible to
beneath
win
the
surface.
victorywhich
18th
The
the 18th
the
antagonism between
The
and
felt too
his
play,but
counterpoiseto
objectof suspicion,and
an
has
and it
ever-growingreactionaryspirit,
of Italy,
to break with the conqueror
equally
he
factious man."
essential
serve
reau
Auge-
"
confide in him
He
as
his influence
to Lavalette
detected
Directorysoon
regarded Bonaparte
it
advantage,
noisy Jacobin
dreaded
so
sown
this
general whose
Paris
to
derived
also
that
demagogue
he
Paris
to
that
as
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
Fructidor
The
contained
to
was
duce
pro-
Brumaire.
Stael,whose
of influence,was
most
drawing-roomwas
eager
in defence
of the
centre
lic
Repub-
both
hostile to the reaction : she saw
bitterly
"Although Bonaparte,"
Augereau and Lavalette.
she said, was
always talkingabout the Republic in
and
"
his
was
careful
proclamations,
in his eyes
light that
The
of
who
rumor
he
ran
means,
observers
not
an
Lombardy. One
had just come
day
from
to
met
It
end.
regarded everybody
that he wanted
discerned
and
make
was
in
it
this
everything.
himself
General
Italy,and
was
that
King
Augereau,
everywhere
AND
BONAPARTE
looked
and
upon,
I think
him
I asked
This
he's too
'
himself
degradingthing that
should
wish
Why
purposes.
to
No, certainly
not,'
'
would
so
of the
have
ered
considguished,
distin-
however
man,
this view
was
thing.'
the ideas
for selfish
the Revolution
use
lican.
Repub-
Bonaparte was
well
Republicans
Earnest
it
king.
singularanswer
moment.
ardent
an
that
true
was
137
FRUCTIBOB.
18TH
as
rightly,
if it
thinkingof making
he answered
THE
shortlived
among
affected
genuine
the French?"!
At
this
period
of
adoration
at
the
"
praiseof
says, "her
pass, she
before
was
me
so
for
more
tidor.
Madame
to
de
than
"I
de
room
back
to
to
all the
we
see
her
one,
Stael's
next
at
that
and
urged on
convinced,"
Considerations
time
for
day ;
her
on
Lavalette
the
My
little
she
at
received
afterwards."
two
sions:
pas-
Republic. She,
the coup
upon
of
laughed
nourished
the
the
see
I think
was
of the house
I often called
Stael
am
the
she
even
rose
! should
What
that
the master
Bonaparte
any
'
of
side
I drew
as
dinner," he
Italyhad
inspiration.When
into
of
Minister
whole
the conqueror
manifest
so
kindly that
Madame
the
During
at dinner
aide-de-campof Bonaparte?'
an
embarrassed, and
I went
her
met
Talleyrand, the
stopped,and said,
confusion
her.
de
all went
and
portrait,
going
Lavalette
exaggeration of
table,we
hero's
M.
Affairs.
Foreign
from
of
Stael
de
Bonaparte.
house
fire and
Madame
d^etat of Frucsays
French
further,
Revolution.
138
"
CITIZEN
that
be
she
had
inflicted
such
zeal in
the
deed
about.
She
by
on
known
not
foreseen
the
defeated
urging
her
records
her
on
account
of relations
found
Republican zeal,
bring
to
of the 17th
that
for
saw-
alarmed
helped
great
well-
most
fear of arrest.
felt alarmed
she
Royalists.
hiding-placefor
never
was
evening
houses
with
herself
had
so
left their
spite of
friends
She
in the
was
In
party,but
words
that
alarm
persons
the
them."
which
Fructidor, the
BONAPARTE.
ESS
her in
One
of her
little room
Only
the
soldiers
citizens
to
were
be
indoors.
were
seen
in the streets
The
cannon
which
were
massed
about
General
Augereau
of the
Five
the
the
prevailed. In
the
had
morning
was
learned
over
ness
still-
that
cil
led his troops into the Coun-
Hundred,
deputies.
it
and
of the
Two
arrested
there
Directors
the
were
actionary
re-
scribed,
pro-
driven in
were
representatives
fifty-one
through the agitatedcountry, and sent, in
wagons
iron cages, to deadly exile in Cayenne ; the owners,
and
editors, and
likewise
writers
were
forty-onenewspapers
of forty-eight
transported
; the elections
all
cancelled
deputieswere
silenced
out
the
of the
of
priestsand
country : such
the
press
was
dmigr^s were
were
the
gagged and
again driven
consequences
of
140
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
the
has
government
him:
from
that
you
last
remain
regard for
but
large;
at
on
has
can
the
of the
I have
weeks
of my
desk
lingereda
should
General
you
few
days
about
the
said, "that
conduct
me."
saw
in
you
But
Lavalette
that it
was
18th
The
one.
are
that
the
to
see
about
of
resentati
repFor
you
Lavalette
the
to
do
18th
Fructidor
"Do
don't be alarmed
useless
to
have
would
he
have
smiled, and
visited
anything for
Bonaparte with great
could
if he
Arcole.
ought
he
starting,
Before
than
enthusiasm
battle
You
"
papers."
my
generalspoke about
indifference, and
more
place
this
seize
may
Augereau,
much
has taken
my
be ascribed to fear.
The
him.
sent
convinced
be
never
yourselfof
to convince
wish
moment
what
on
to
Bonaparte,you
betrayed no
I have
calamity;
government
six
this
share
not
their way
on
repliedwith perfectcoolness
quite mistaken
a
tell
to
conduct."
your
Lavalette
is
are
General
I have
secretaryto enlightenhim
and
painted
I want
should
you
who
conspirators
of
Out
Guiana.
have
cussed
Directory seriouslydis-
question whether
of the
fate
the
colors
letters
is well
events
that you
blackest
evening
private
no
recent
on
doubt
not
the
in
the
the
do
we
conduct
our
opinion
your
and
known,
received
you
thanked
shown
know,"
you
been
with
for your
shot
may
he
count
him;
on
but
he
to
the
BONAPARTE
AND
test, and
the
Paris
1st
the
to
proceeding'
For
his
addressed
"
the
nation
had
and
console
and
and
You
irons.
of the Executive
specialenemies
us
will
be
honor
in
immortality."
It was
not
Bonaparte
of
years
later,at the
legitimacywith
so
the
knew
to
chains
it,you
learn, from
Italy.
spoke
they
the
lamation
proc-
proudest
This
preference
title to
who
the
particularlyof
traitors,tyrants,and
alone
thus
slaves
glory
and
played
the
was
rand,
Talley-
great
fate
by
Europe,
over
be
Tliis is the
of
of
history our
it will
soldiers,and
Army
hatred
troops :
1st Vende-
the
is called
you
will
his
Directory,the plots of
of the
his
annals.
world.
for you
before
Fructidor, had
French
triumphant
people awoke
alreadyin
does
18th
nation
the
the
Republicans,
foundation
the
great
prepared
of it ; the
of
up
world's
dates
the
been
celebrate
posed
celebrate
to
the
and
country,
your
are
in
which
astonish
to
were
Republic.
dear to the
most
renown
from
about
are
left
Directory,the
followingproclamation to
miaire, a date
of
of the
supporter of the
Soldiers,we
day
day
VI.
Mars
entirelymade
was
ardent
an
de
He
authorities
constituted
Champ
Italy.
the
which
army,
as
the
of the Year
day
left for
Vend^miaire, when
all the
141
FBUCTIBOB.
18TH
he
day
next
ministers, and
first
THE
"
fervor.
He
wrote
of
to Bona-
142
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
k
four
parte
conspiracy,and
been
long
it had
wholly
indifferent
insult
an
insulted; the
had
it,and
been
sixteenth
death
Royalty,
the
fullest details of
general asked,
boldness
was
the evidence
.
else
Then
but
he
when
On
spur
the
the
to
18th
the
as
this
in the
can
revolution
will
not
the
cowardice
flagrant,and
condemn
real
of
him.
nothing
use
garden
leave
In fact, the
was
to
took
he
The
processes,
justice is
master,
his walk
nation."
Fructidor
Bonaparte.
is
one
the
rashness, when
was
enough
well- when
lie gave
piece of
treason
than
one
added,
whole,
his
was
found
happened.
such
why
It
d'Orl^ans."
scornful
such
recall
Paris, he
had
that
Then
more
continued
Finally,he
"
the
to
day speedy
should
who
riano, and
with
Why,
is very
Passe
critical
hypo-
back
us
first
from
back
enough?
was
Force
.
''
carried
of '93, or
was
returned
honored.
one
everything
try Pichegru;
to
not
at
had
any
got
weakness
much
so
Constitution
installed
Bonaparte
and
to
patriot had
institution
France
The
.
for
Lavalette
When
of
had
visible
of
name
suddenly
century.
real
Already
become
Republican
foes
had
decreed
was
had
welcomed
fanaticism
the
Constitution.
The
every
"
profit of Royalty,
and
eyes.
bitterest
Fructidor
the
to
cast
become
18th
the
plottingagainst the
the most
to
after
days
better."
in silence.
Lavalette,
prove
good
of
conqueror
Directory;
it
was
XIV.
PASSERIANO.
the
of
middle
TOWARDS
Bonaparte, accompanied
left after
had-
Leclerc,
the
at
had
"
Pauline's
taken
negotiations with
This
was
former
four
the ruins
of
leagues
he
got the
appeared
relations
rank
the
great
store
18th
Austrian
that
he
to
the
the famous
his
of
and
the
Taglifrom
three
appeared
as
odium, he
which
at
conservative, and
once
in
his
plenipotentiarieshe
that
himself
his
was
wife
in
speaks
Austrian
nobilityand
was
of
He
of
noble
birth
his
Memoirs.
diplomatist,he
the
membered
re-
high
gentleman.
pretensions to
Metternich
by
matic
diplo-
government.
warrior
the
a
pleasure
Prince
According
the
his
the
secured
with
already manifested
which
Here
light of
the
with
and
Being
Udine,
profitwithout
in
Friuli,
conclude
to
left bank
from
Aquileia.
d'etat of
the coup
the
in
Austrian
the
on
was
peace-maker.
by
General
with
quarters
the
his family
"
country-placebelongingto Manin,
doge, and
amento,
fine
wife,
marriage
his
up
his
Passeriano, there
of
castle
by
September, 1797,
antiquity
143
set
of his
144
family.
''he
More
"
lias tried
nobility.
'
say.
back
There
birth.
The
partes
are
because
we
been
seldom
than
Marquis
de
time
been
reign
and
his rank
"
and
with
familiarity
time
not
remarks
certain
with
his proper
which
place,in
levity,but
he
was
which
famous,
not
good
who
sume
pre-
Count
Cobenzl
pean
principal Euroin
Russia, during
read
in
doubt
would
from
met
the
especial
"Proud
the
the
that his
ners
man-
whelm
easilyover-
of the
French
air and
remained
of
Memorial
the camps
greeted soon
he
Louis
diplomatist.
winning.
courts
Bona-
Great, whose
in
with
of low
Count
the
importance,"we
am
Count
Austrian
the
succeeded
family
Gallo, General
to
long
Catherine
had
he
esteem
of
ambassador
of
my
coxcombs
Ficquelmont.
to
"
leading
for
used
island, and
the
his
on
The
the two.
were
plenipotentiaries
M.
that
us.'
on
trace
gentlemen,
of
and
envy
doubts
any
left the
many
down
only
say that I
others
Corsican
courts, and
the
lies between
have
Metternich,
he
singularposition,'
genealogistswho
Mersfeld, and
had
throw
to
are
Cobenzl, the
He
that
me
in
Austrian
at
able
Prince
am
good
to look
was
to
prove
truth
better
The
once," adds
deluge,and
the
to
deal
'
than
to
have
calumny
de
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
the
put
ever
eral
gen-
him
first
in
after."
of the
accomplished man
world, a true representativeof the old regime. He
who told most cleverly
was
a brilliant and witty talker,
M.
de
Cobenzl
was
an
145
PASSEBIANO.
stories of every
his
skill,and
social
Bonaparte,who
of
Marquis
Neapolitan,and
chose
Austria
Yours
the
old
Viennese
who
feared
himself
lost.
of the
manners
he
"
"
And
have
Has
lest these
to
of
he
was
to the
such
court
regard
that
plenipotentiaries.
saw
of
Gallo
since
not
You
"
"
to
the
the old
remarks
down
are
Naples ?
of Austria
Emperor
stamp?
Is all the
The
should
come
cabinet, at
right,"
the French
with
treat
to
ambassador
am
when," asked
I had
the Vienna
smoothing
supple,and
;
Naples
aristocracyextinct?"
officialnotice
an
for
Madame
acute,
won
of its
one
negotiatorsof
more
got
amused
the
from
lie liad
Marquis
at peace.
any
became
famous
was
Austrian
an
German
Naples."
are
not
for
him
general dryly,
We
he
most
ambassador
is not
answered
from
him
in
was
first time
the
him
greatly
Gallo,
There
Vienna.
"
he
found
conciliatingman,
of
Europe
of Versailles.
old court
The
of
court
once
Bonaparte, who
Marquis,
to
the
devoted
at
once
from
the
then
ambassador
Bourbons
of
from
Naples
to
sul,
the First Con-
146
CITIZENESS
fine manners,
and
versed
meetings
Ficquelmont, who
in
residence
diningat
each
than
at
wholly without
nowhere
of
us
yet
of
our
well
so
It
known,
at
was
adds
He
of
devoted
and
him
on
us
the
that
General
his mind
was
to
each
the
tivation
cul-
used
to
lessons
in
Desaix
other.
"had
of them
me
not
as
forgottenmy
he
as
forming
more
parte
Bonasaw
me.
his desire to
It
campaign.
full of memories
Desaix,"
"
of
was
company
ac-
from
campaign
this classic
the East."
visited
General
soon
Bonaparte
his next
plans about
develop
days together,and
several
Ragusa,
Egypt. Bonaparte
land
to
principles,
was
ourselves
Berthollet
established
General
expressed to
most
qualitythat
quickly realized,about
he reminded
back
comes
descriptive
geometry."
"
attached
Duke
prophecies,so
;
it had
"
seriano,"
Pas-
at
stay
strengthand
neglect study and
They spent
much
the
Our
"
our
he
Passeriano
Bonaparte.
became
life there
Monge
of which
negotiators
Montehello, but
every
ipotenti
plen-
tions
Distrac-
We
did not
we
mind.
science
now
at
other's houses.
Ragusa,
;
exercise,to maintain
teach
that
memory
repeated.
skill
our
my
Their
of the Austrian
charm.
pleasantlyto
statecraft.
Udine, alternately.The
fewer
not
active
Austrian
oughly
thor-
was
Bonaparte's headquarters
at
at the
at
were
de
held
Passeriano, and
was
M.
in all the
were
took turns
BONAPARTE.
history,and
or
ble
less feasi-
148
no
CITIZEN
suited
way
order
supreme
he
power
knew
He
Bonaparte'sviews.
attain
to
BONAPARTE.
ESS
that in
need
should
the
and
should
he
years
he
which
have
treat
to
adopted
brothers.
as
Passeriano
at
The
tude
atti-
bespeaks such
calculations.
tastes, his
marriage, his
belonged to
both
the old
of
dreams.
to
period of
Europe.
aid he
ambition
My campaign
"
day
one
his
Madame
de
his life.
On
the
was
not
the
Revolution.
the
of
realization
a
bad
an
means
speaking of
important person
of my
It's
always
I received
wrote
to
me,
secured
the
Monk's
if I had
burned
and
uneasy
Never
in his
Pope
his
was
me,
that
on
the
form
cause
party, be-
is,but of what
example.
for
The
if
they
only
der
Preten-
flowery style.
hesitating,
more
formidable
about
deceive
this
of the
order
magnificent offers
most
follow General
would
to
of what
think
they never
want.
easy
his
one," he said
fication
grati-
R^musat,
hand, by
one
principles,he
could, for
and
I became
"
and
societyand
From
ideas
could
bring no
was
charge againstme."
which
the skilful dissimulation,
was
one
the
of
ingenious and
more
Directory:
too
the
long
been
entrusted
employed
much
the
may
have
it for the
and
take
will
doubtless, in
my
The
whom
three
reward
it
no
ii
no
virtue,
is my
own
country. My
health
and,
indispensable,
The
government
my
request of
of
commission
cists
publi-
plenipotentiaries
new
one
the command
who
take
can
of the
my
place
jealous and
but
suspicious;
it would
it rivalled him
ready
it al-
in
dissimulation,
made
and, in refusingto accept his resignation,
friendship which
Bottot, Barras's
in
posts."
equallyinteresting
Bonaparte ;
sincere.
so
negotiations
; and, finally,
presentimentthat
of
settlingare
now
with
entrust
can
am
place.
Italy;
the
Directory was
had
its
free
know
is
appointed
renew
or
for
in these
in
accordance
organize a
generalto
army,
can
ago, have
continue
country
of
render
can
nothing
to
case
every
''
war,
to
has
power
In
of my
My
week
great
who, believingin
arrangements
I mingle
posterity."October 1,
Talleyrand: All that I am now
to
the
the
to
requiresthat
good
the verdict
wrote
wrote
hands.
my
suspected mine.
doing, all
to
for those
worse
conscience
1797, he
condition
of citizens.
mass
He
refined.
more
moral
My
"
with
I have
is
149
PASSEBIANO.
at
that cruel
from
anything
were
secretary,wrote
Passeriano
Passeriano
had
thoughtshad
testations
pro-
to
to
but
parte,
Bona-
Paris,that
sorelydistressed
accompanied
him
150
to
the
of
conqueror
which
the
although
was
only
yet
with
been
affection
and
lessened
the
to
act
In
sides
hostility
plain
which
mere
violence
by
of
the
these
seeing
of
and
18th
vring,
manoeu-
Bonaparte,
influence,
was
for
tions,
protesta-
political
and
the
felt
these
secret
eyes,
that
Directors
Barras
Josephine's
clear-sighted
of
spite
were
between
by
the
but
dispelled
Italy.
both
on
Directory
the
had
thoughts
admiration
of
clooi-s
very
cruel
the
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
to
Brumaire.
cease
XV.
JOSEPHINE
Bonaparte
WHILE
went
had
been
Its
old
provisional
had
the
it
negotiations
of
haughtiness
French
had
It
entreaty.
it, and
but
to
and
his
he
Austria
did
plans
were
not
and
had
in
the
about
to
to
show
ruin.
proud
ence,
independ-
former
as
tude
atti-
obsequiousness
and
to
to
conqueror
unheard-of
to
visit
ovations
abandon
Mantua
and
himself
in
He
were
and
decided
for
return
the
Bonaparte
young
already
dare
of
most
of
uneasiness
Its
hostility
the
besought
him
its
secret
one
republics.
The
preserve
the
Padua,
colors
formed.
yer,
law-
of
Brescia,
Passeriano.
at
become
promised
Bonaparte
without
not
was
head
national
16.
May
principles
was
to
which
and
separate
the
Italian
the
hoped
Republic
but
the
confederation
all
were
since
the
at
Bergamo,
adopted
Revolution
Venetian
overthrown,
Udine,
were
adopted,
been
himself
Josephine
Venice,
at
garrison
government.
Everywhere
days
French
put
Bassano,
French
Passeriano,
at
few
had
aristocracy
Dandolo,
to
by
VENICE.
was
spend
to
occupied
Vicenza,
AT
the
a
ice
Ven-
Adige,
city;which
clearly perceived
151
152
CITIZEN
that
after
BONAPABTE.
ultra-democratic
the
proclamationswhich
he had
busts of Junius
and
bound
and
hand
Marcus
if he
were
foot, to
an
inconsistent
very
ESS
appear
give over
republic,
to
on
which
expiringcitypromised him,
to
have
did not
the Venetian
She
was
to
affable and
no
husband
have
and
at fault
nor
loyal; the
But
would
be the
their
Yet
its
she
got
to
go
seeing this
her husband's
Doges, with
To
"
her
see
class of
every
dark
suspectedthe
She
of Marmont.
amiability.
Republic.
neutralityhad
Veronese
the
crime.
see
the
illustrious
was
to
lation
dissimu-
so
society,
her
planswhich
was
the- noble
spiritof
seem
simple pleasure-party.
smiling towards
so
would
one
the escort
kindliness, and
grace,
to
city,and
City of
the
appeared at
he would
as
under
gone
applause
diplomaticsecrets, might
famous
leave to go there
the
leaving Italywithout
to
and
Mark
His
part.
as
festivities
averse
wonderful
far
so
go
admitted
not
was
traitor's
played a
If he had
emperor.
to receive
the
of
Brutus, he would
of Saint
the square
Paris
sending to
punishment
feelingsof
terrible
that most
Vespers
the
was
neither
had
been
"
prudent
a
terrible,and
patriotswho
sight,
Venice
Doubtless
been
grave
what
were
annihilation
the
of
soon
of
country?"
Venice
populace
still
still nourished
believe what
with
was
illusions;
so
easy
credulous
is it to
land,
nobilityof the mainlong-livedjealousyof the aristocracy
one
its
rejoicing; the
hopes.
The
of
the
oligarchy which
pleasure the
with
lagoons, saw
153
VENICE.
AT
JOSEPHINE
it detested.
fall of the
middle
The
classes,
emancipated,noisilyAvelcomed
fancying themselves
As to the rabble,they
the triumph of French
ideas.
thought
the
future
themselves
enthusiasm.
being unable
held
the
days
his
will
Venice
at
of
Veronese,
Madame
it
Avas
its
marble
admiration
Doges
!
and
Greater
The
of
Council
pains
is most
at
ify
gratfour
chantment.
en-
beautiful
magnificent
pieces
frescoes,the masterPaul
Palmas,
two
Saint
Mark,
in
its
derful
won-
treasures
is overwhelmed
when
he
Chamber,
picturescondenses
man
could
Palace, rich
visitor
respect
the
palaces and
pictures and
its Piazza
world,
perpetual magical
the
before
spared no
the
Bonaparte spent
one
City of
of
its wealth
in
flatter her.
monuments,
and
best
The
with
the
prostrate themselves
to
receptionof
and
scarcelyconsidered
Venetians, with
The
who
past, and
southern
true
of the
more
no
the
enters
which
with
brated
cele-
in its
derful
won-
the
popes
come
to
seek
shelter
in
Venice, emperors
its fleets
mediation
conquering islands,its
on
land
and
armies
sea,
and
; one
scaling
in
the
154
CITIZEN
middle
of the
radiant
woman,
and
of all the
hundred
the
to
about
care,
The
first
hundred
windows
this
gloomy
by
Rial to.
I'oofs that
or
second
The
covered
gondolas were
sea
flame
of
ball in the
Marmont,
Ducal
of
"
and
but
one
with
There
it.
the
over
the
the
course
canal
the
to
flowers
were
boats, propelled
narrow
contended
garlands.
all illuminated
fireworks
water,
the
gives to Venice,
of
the endless
movement
it look like
such
selves
them-
reflected in the
a
cessor.
suc-
houses, gondolas,
were
palaces,
like
was
beginning of
day, a tripin
the
grand reception.
in gala dress.
overlooked
long
the
trouble
had
the
at
for
room
not
Canal
man,
one
from
third
six
eleven
left empty
Bonaparte
fiftythousand
Anafeste,
who,
sign; they
and
but
ran
did
Grand
traits
por-
portraitof
no
Avas
the
five
the
day
and
boat-races
which
Venetians
give Madame
to
"
the
only place
there
of the
series
last, Manini,
of
its wealth
Luca
the first,
singular omen
filled the
But
The
is the
there
of his election
time
then
afterwards,had
Manini
Doge
the
doges, from
years
the French
displayof
smiling at
697,
in
the form
the Republic,in
ceiling,
grandeur ;
elected
BONAPARTE.
ESS
and
was
colors
were
evening
closed
with
"If
one
reflects,"says
moving city,if
circumstances
it
of many
the
Palace.
called
one
forth
boats, which
thinks
in
this
make
of the efforts
imaginative
156
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
fate.
same
The
great
whose
saint
relics
in the
are
church
what
had
in the
become
looks
"
of her who
sea
her tiara of
Rising with
proud
ocean,
towers
airydistance,with majesticmotion,
At
A
of the waters
ruler
"^
In
The
And
she
youth
Her
'
all
was
byword
very
And
Europe's
Witness
from
o'er
that
no
doges
no
and
the
"
victory,
through fire
subjectearth
saw
and
sea
time
more
Vouch
it,ye
Lepanto's fight!
nor
"
It is all over;
Tyre,
new
'gainstthe Ottomite.
bulwark
names
slaves,herself stillfree,
many
waves
are
ye
"
Innnortal
For
glory,
:
"S^
Lion,'which
she bore
blood
sprung
of the
Planter
their powers
and
^
Though making
of the
from
Cybele,fresh
tyranny
blight."
can
shall be
Adriatic !
the
seen
And
IV.
wedding
where
is the
passage
of the
Lido,
cast
into
the
sea
consecrated
words:
Besponsaring,uttering these sacramental
in signum verl perpetuique dommiW'
mus
te^ mare^
"Sea, we
marry
you in sign of true and everlasting
'"''
"
dominion
the
"
The
ambassadors
Pope'snuncio, seemed
of every
by their
power,
presence
even
to recog-
AT
JOSEPHINE
the
nize
has
become
of
intended
fear
lest
some
English
there
was
have
its
but
should
it
better
and
glory
The
to
appear
on
cries
the
The
itself
the
of
Creole
amid
instead
in
coffin
joy
woman,
the
of
of
and
who
lagoons
sounds
have
presided
formidable
of
been
over
doge,
have
must
like
the
ence
independ-
its
should
which
joicing,
re-
would
folly
its
to
and
seemed
gondoliers
majestic
proud
sackcloth,
on
authority
not
was
put
Also
which
in
were
by
way
it.
Gold,
of
Venice,
decked
Its
of
song
foreigner,
Book
the
burn
to
been
frigate
some
on
decided
was
had
it
of
tow
themselves,
thrown
I
first
captured
famous
it
wail.
festivities
be
have
which
better
in
inscribed.
names
been
surprised
it
What
marriage.
At
France
monarchs
funeral
to
even
with
irony.
it
cruiser,
had
mystical
Buceiitaiirf
that
their
flowers
this
burned
patricians,
have
the
send
to
for
but
of
validity
157
VENICE.
real
been
queen.
XVI.
CAMPO
FORMIO.
diplomaticnegotiationsstill went
THE
time
coming
was
when
near
but the
on,
they would
have
to
be
settlement
to be broken
off.
or
brought to some
Bonaparte'ssituation,in spiteof wonderful
victories,
continued
opposed
only
to the
succeed
from
the
difficulties.
ultimatum,
that
would
By
the
mined,
exist
had
and
settlement
and
on
came
his
to
which
assumed
himself
and
this
had
in his communications
confidence.
168
In
this
once
it
double
the
he had
pared
pre-
Foreign Affairs,
foreseeingthe agreement
between
and
government,
of
he
had
principal
send
letters
j)i'ivate
Minister
the
He
Austria,
Austrian
his
Paris
of
about
was
the
Talleyrand,the
for
that
any
overthrow
once
Directory than
for
own.
from
messenger
at
could
At
constructed.
carefully
so
Bonaparte
it.
upon
sense
and
government,
Luxembourg
one
acting in
was
his will
arrive
fear of the
was
of his
might
had
he
scaffolding
more
He
by imposing
despatch
critical.
orders
there
moment
with
be
to
already deter-"
which
was
to
great lord, he
airs of
correspondence
sympathy
he
made
CAMPO
short
of the
work
Italian
in the streets
picked up
of the
and
"I
said:
about
except
army,
forces
He
propaganda.
in my
159
FORMIO.
have
fifteen hundred
of the different
fellows.
thievish, good-for-nothing
are
tionary
revoluItalians
no
vagabonds
cities. They
You
agine
im-
that
historic fact.
If
we
policyof 1793,
because
policy,and
recruit
we
lasts
sacrifice
is
have
make
done
no
longer
or
that
but
the
should
we
avo
from,
which
that
have
this very
order
an
the ruin
time."
short
have
we
moment
to
he
of
enthusiasm
anxious
Being
They
"
without
race,
no
need."
he
received
all
to
great masses
wrote,
revolutionize
opposite
from
to
are
land
the
Italy.
or
tory
Direc-
This
was
tain
plan,because he was anxious to mainPapal States,the kingdoms of Naples and
Sardinia, and
to
give
the
Directorydesired
Republic,but also to
exception
of their views
would
those
the
take
mis-
of his
the
without
mations
procla-
greater
with
first outburst
Venetians,
water, of whom
all the
well
feeble, effeminately
cowardly
At
into
romantic
stuff.
printedspeechesis mere
external
to happen to adopt the
were
and
...
All
have
was
dared
up
not
Venice
only to
transform
into
act
Austria, while
the Venetian
save
all the
Italian
republics. The
complete.
to
to
in
No
one
but
oppositionto
States
divergence
Bonaparte
the
letters
160
CITIZENESS
and
spirit of
BONAPARTE.
the
government's instructions,but
already he
depended only
attention
the
to
he
Directory,
October
and,
inspirations,
with
the
four
to be
decisive.
would
Count
never
that
"
that
day
it with
it into
monarchy
it
and
the
would
as
Great
might
the
pine
Cisal-
fi'om
greement.
disa-
stamping
well,
war;
boast
to
every
are
given him,
floor,shivering
See !
"
he
be your
over
shouted
Austrian
"
Then
he
room.
Count
if the
Cobenzl's
Count
had
destroyedthe
he said ?
termined
de-
was
had
the
upon
montlis
negotiationshad
have
disavowed
used
playing everythingon
smashed
sure,
in
want
"
of the
in
seizinga magnificentporcelain
the
before three
out
had
so
"You
tria
Aus-
except
fury,and
fragments.
promise you, shall
Bonaparte was
he
in
de Cobenzl
all his
that
resulted
scene
arose
And
remain
thousand
again; "such,
destined
was
announced
should
Catherine
dashed
rushed
M.
interview
an
Bonaparte, however,
violent
it !
which
teaset
had
Mayence
ground, exclaimed,
shall have
you
16, he
renounce
Bonaparte
the
followed
Cobenzl
Mantua
Republic.
on
Paying no
only his own
which
plenipotentiaries,
for Mantua.
exchange
himself.
on
Was
broken
Austrian
it certain
him
at
was
his word
off,that
monarchy
that he would
so
not
he
ily
eas-
be
Paris
have
Directory? Would
and refusingto
Venice
pardoned him for sacrificing
revolutionize all Italy? Did he not run
the risk of
that same
evening a despatch which would
receiving
by
the
porcelain,but
taken
been
throw
one
CAMPO
work?
boldest
the
adopted
might
hastened
wrath, he
obstacle,whether
and
Directory,
of those
one
knew
He
very
As
its ratification.
loud
Charles
four
And,
in
be
to
hours, and
of
sprang
the
notice
not
treaty
dare
sent
to
low
were
refuse
to
the room,
he in
the Archduke
be resumed
many
good
own
in
twenty-
carriage without
entreatinggestures of
with
Gallo,who,
denly
sud-
gambler
if the
his
ing
enjoy-
was
from
into
he
fact,everything
at his
not
of the
course
He
the
that
seeming to
him
word
every
or
the
is amazed
well
sentiment
pre-
overcome
when
he rushed
ordered
voice
secret
take
signed,the Directorywould
once
plans.
of luck
runs
everythingand
wins
fortune.
his
of the
simulated
his
would
would
further
conspiredto
from
the master.
was
fear
no
part of Austria
the
that events
desired; that he
with
ensue
that he
on
he
battle-field,
the
on
final result.
the
him
told
As
plan, and
that
consequences
161
FORMIO.
bows,
the Marquis
begging
was
depart.
to
The
on
day
next
the
scene
had
thoughts,decided
second
proposition;and
That
peace
for his
to
French
the
pardon
changed.
pretended
accede
took
which
Formio, which
its
of
wrath
the
lies
seriano.
"Yet,"
Memoirs,
''not
the
Duke
his
part,
secure
day
before.
signed tlie
villageof Campo
the
half-waybetween
says
Cobenzl,
Bonaparte's
to
amicability,
from
name
to
general, for
same
M.
was
Udine
of
single conference
and
Ragusa
had
been
Pasin
liis
held
162
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
there
it
the
merely
was
place where
the
treaty was
sary
signed. I was despatched thither to make the necesand at the same
time to invite the
preparations,
to push on
to Passeriano, to Avhich
plenipotentiaries
they very graciouslyassented.
They signed before
preparationshad
doubtless
there
in which
the
table that
so
all
day
used.
there
full of
brought when
with
of the
the
copies were
At
midnight
Paris with
dark.
messenger
and
even
the
stayingtogetherin
ten
o'clock,word was
finished.
General
with
as
took
General
from
ghost stories,
old castle.
some
brought
was
his
on
treaty. Twelve
that
to
way
hours
Directoryreached
the
selves
them-
Berthier
of the
copy
later
Passeriano,
have
prevented
he had
received
evening before.
about
felt anxious
Directoryconsent
Republic?
Venice
and
treaties
with
room
pen
amused
They
all
last,towards
the
and
conversation
they were
them
relics
discussions.
more
it became
At
no
the
these
copying
ing
and, remaincharming gaiety,
drawing-room,he asked that no candles be
in the
if
The
sake
villagethe
place and
It is with
were
Bonaparte was
as
for form's
in this
took
great event
were
made
stillshown
are
others."
many
been
where
Formio,
Campo
at
treaty
make
of the
one
to the
Would
final
countrj^?
the
ratification.
destruction
Would
tian
of the Vene-
provisorygovernment cf
the independeffort to save
ence
the
It commissioned
three
dele-
164
for
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
advance
opportunityto
an
yet
Dandolo
had
was
spiteof
did not
which
the
has
France
republic founded
Revolution.
and
The
describe
Talleyrand,
desires !
shall hear
Receive
my
Words
public delighted;
be sure,
To
best condition.
from
lamentations
some
French
General.
dear
everythingthat
in the
new
last," wrote
everythingis
the
congratulations,
my
to
me
of
ognized
rec-
principlesof
Bonaparte
as
treaty
existence
at
the
tory
Direc-
the
Directory,
Italy the
Peace
such
peace
warmest
fail
"
and
man
and
boundaries,and
"
this
its natural
the
on
faded."
of the
Northern
in
but
loftysentiments,
never
sorrow
gave
benefit him
ordinaryman
very
made
impressionhe
In
and
Italy;
but
we
that's
end
to
the
moment
list."
longing for
was
weeks
moment,
his
and
interests
own
yet every
one
ardentlyas, a few
Bonaparte had
most
propitious
as
peace
consulted
that
war.
at
was
praisinghis
terestednes
disin-
was
The
was
everywhere representedas
Mo?iiteur, which
his friends,was
doubtless
preparing to
model
was
make
of self-denial.
controlled
his return
by
very
CAMPO
Everything
impressive.
The
inspire
the
and
masses
of
the
the
he
day
in
parted
in
in
honor
in
from
left
Austria.
the
see
the
Josephine,
her
Milan
destined
peace
the
son
for
place
the
the
and
who
Eugene
extend
concluded
In
Latin
he
between
had
poets.
He
longer
November
a
barked
em-
had
time
some
the
Saint
celebration
noon
and
the
next
to
he
where
to
Mantua,
went
at
stayed
queror
con-
The
he
of
the
dukes.
monument
prince
slightest
of
military
adding
through
then
full
progress
illuminated.
Rastadt,
to
Letters
in
former
Hoche,
to
of
with
session,
Empire
boat,
Italy
1797,
General
of
remarks
passed
was
took
imagination
Moniteur^
felt
was
garrison
there
of
on
built
the
where
memory
of
city
reviewed
George,
he
palace
whole
the
evening
the
in
which
When
to
triumphal
insignificant
Italy.
the
this
pose.
pur-
was
curiosity.
abundance
most
in
slept
of
interest
and
of
he
details
extreme
actions
public
the
this
Paris
to
strike
to
arouse
swift
in
Passeriano
stories
minutest
appeared
to
of
host
for
arranged
was
from
journey
165
FORMIO.
17,
congress
whole
France
was
German
and
XVII.
bonapakte's
retuhn
left
Milan
November
BONAPARTE
accompanied by Marmont,
well
physician. He
to
stop
and
at Turin
belonged
he went
Thence
for him
He
the
at
to visit
of
memory
league
to
call
foot.
The
He
desires
His
Morat, and
roads
were
reached
166
the
he
went
a
order
to
Morat
manuel.
Em-
When
warmly.
most
for
stopped
waiting
was
of
Coppet.
aides-de-camp,
carriage broke
filled by
in
diamonds,
castle
of his
but
number
Charles
Necker, who"
near
Cenis.
he
his
magnificent
King,
where
Ferney, having
night standing
Italy.
on
roadside,
and
with
greeted
as
but refused
with
the Mount
was
Geneva,
Voltaire.
from
late
crossed
refused
the
to
refused
He
day.
horses
Yvan,
Sardinia
compliments
the
to
Chambi^ry, he
reached
of
horse-pistolsset
two
Bonaparte
he
his
King
handsome
two
"
and
fittings,
had
Duroc, Lavalette,
secretary,and
the
see
him
sent
of presents,
17, 1797,
that monarch
which
his
by Bourrienne,
as
fkance.
to
part
vast
see
November
of
down
the
crowd, who
the
way
it
on
spent
conqueror
23;
was
of
a
BONAPARTE'S
market-day,and
awaited:
Moniteur
admiration
this
at
receive
quote from
us
printed in
interest and
keen
I found
that
him
very
pale,lookingtired,but
portrait, short,slight,
"
It seemed
absent-mindedlyand
somewhat
if much
said to him.
was
and
wears
an
his
His
what
is
like
not
great interest,
no
own
thoughtsthan
expression of
revealingnothing of
his
that he listened
me
with
occupied with
more
what
with
to
the
extreme
promise
to
seems
has done
who
extraordinaryman,
yet concluded.
is not
career
Let
Morat, and
with
great things,and
such
as
from
I looked
"
anxiously
most
was
magistrate prepared to
Paris
to
:
arrival
possiblehonors.
all
letter sent
his
chief
the
with
him
his
167
FRANCE.
TO
RETURN
tion,
reflec-
constant
going
inside this
on
less
thoughtfulhead, this sturdynature, in which doubtence
were
forming plans destined to have great influthe fate of Europe. A worthy citizen of
over
five feet
Morat, about
struck
much
pretty
loud
'
It's
a
or
eight inches
tall,was
That's a
general'sappearance.
claimed,
height for such a great man,' he exenough to be heard by an aide-de-camp.
by
small
seven
the
'
ing
exactly the height of Alexander,' I said,bringHe said, That
is not
smile to the aide's face.
'
the most
strikingpoint of
the
stopped near
be shown
monument
the
resemblance.'
of bones
place where
at
Bonaparte
Morat
the battle it
and
asked
to
front
France
memorated
com-
168
the
neighboring mountains,
dense
wood,
'
They
to
'How
it.
rout
outflank
have
must
able, aided
were
by
the
Burgundian army
this army?' asked
large was
Sixty thousand
Lannes
than
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
men.'
covered
'
and
parte.
Bona-
Sixtythousand
the mountains.'
men
Tlien
eral
Gen-
better
figlit
time,' repliedBonaparte, the
'
that.'
'
At
that
'
"
not Frenchmen.'
Burgundians were
series of ovations.
The
a
journey was
Reaching
Berne
at night,Bonaparte passed tlirougha double
line
of
lit carriages,
filled
brilliantly
His
women.
cannon
the
on
the
Offenburg were
that
Augereau
equal;
he
sent
Bonaparte, and
him.
Bonaparte
care
and
He
tire himself
was
hastened
December
glad
to take
Chantereine
to
German
in
be
whence
long
him
recalled
while
former
the
with
of
there
but
to
dinate.
subor-
escort
found
to
he
the
did
tedious
by
the
negotiations,
Directory.
there
in the afternoon.
he had
an
busy
too
was
powers
and
as
5, at five o'clock
Bonaparte went
he
hussars, and
of Austrian
to
stay
under
Rastadt
Augereau, at
Army of the
compliments
seeing his
without
on
to
of
treat
his
that
word
sent
of the
plenipotentiaries
not
with
artillery. At
the
to
invitation
entered
He
squadron
aide
an
of
anxious
was
an
of
headquarters
by
the fortress of
once
salvo
commander-in-chief
time
Rhine.
the
to
pretty
announced
was
At
cityramparts.
replied
Huningue
into Basle
entrance
with
in the
departed,almost
rue
de la
obscure.
BONAPARTE'S
BETUBN
months
twenty-one
ambitious
The
about
anxious
that
of
its
with
so
its
can
will
where
would
How
want?
he
Monk?
that
the
the
of
the
be
To
Such
that
Bonaparte
hero
what
Cromwell?
the
the
was
queror.
con-
young
And
were
but
osity
curi-
greet this
Ca3sar?
multitude
agitatedthe
withal
Great
the
Directors
city,
vast
lost in the
soon
people.
return
Washington?
was
an
in that
to
gloryeclipsedtheir pallidrenown?
whose
did
by
emotion,
keenly susceptible,
yet
ocean,
excited
was
without
without
not
as
about
thither
everything is
of that human
waves
and
are
Alexander
was
amount
population so
fickle,and
Paris, and
return
never
wonder,
glory
as
famous.
returned
he
leave
judgment
Athens,
their
who
men
anxiety. They
what
before, and
169
FRANCE.
TO
questions
pression
prevailingimof
one
Plutarch's
only equalled by
his self-
The
The
virtue.
to
with
speak
The
universal
was
him,
became
showed
newspapers
; to
parte,
Bona-
see
tion.
one's ambi-
every
unvarying
zeal
in
the
evening
*to be excused
called at
was
His
the
of his arrival.
from
receivinghim,
and
the
next
received
with
marks
interview
with
the
Everywhere
Bonaparte begged
his
of
the
Directors
and
affability
warmest
was
most
modesty
were
day
he
respect.
cordial.
talked
170
Gratitude
about.
merely
not
10
wife's
house,
It has
simple,and
He
left,two
and
which
him
temple
days after
recalled
once
if he
in the
to
more,
of love.
did
not
so
unaccompanied,
He
is
often
seen
Chantereine, which
he
wedding, to go to Italy,
for
happy memories, was
Marmont's
it
leave, on
rue
many
But
d'Antin.
garden."
his
use
his
pretence to luxuiy.
no
carriage.
in his modest
little house
had
with
seldom, and
out
goes
walking alone
This
Bonaparte is livingin
he will
plain, two-horse
of December
Chantereine, Chauss^e
said that
been
Rastadt.
General
"
rue
is
This house
principalstate functionaries,but
read
we
was
the
to
also to humbler
in
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENES8
was
no
suffer there
expression,the"
the
of
torments
keen
jealousy.
We
days
who
had
return
there with
to
Lavalette
France.
who
ones
that
had
which
love.
jealousy;
his incessant
over
his
in
to
be
him, tried
Josephine possessedthrough
tried,"he goes
"They
and
Bonaparte.
influence
any
before
her
see
says
stay which
pass
de Beauharnais,
Eugene
Rome
to
meant
Bonaparte'sbrothers, wishing
that
his
from
come
to
her son,
ber
Novem-
Milan
have
on,
made
was
her
Memoirs,
the
only
lessen
to
her
"to
band's
hus-
arouse
most
of
authorized
by
the
His
XVIII.
THE
AT
FESTIVITY
THE
LUXEMBOURG.
of December
festivity
THELuxembourg,
a
formal
so
the
palace were
with
morning
the
palace, at
the
The
Diplomatic Body,
Paris, were
announced
posted
artillery
beginning of
French
which
and
end, close
in the
into
the
main
country, surmounted
and
the
Peace.
at
wore
La
colleague,
At
the
gave
garrison of
signalfor
the
large courtyard.
statues
altar
Roman
of the
the procession,
galleriesof
the
At
the
the
vestibule, rose
the
noon
Republicans,preceded
the
of
ite
band, playingthe favor-
the
R^-
members
the
succession.
by
Below
Directors,who
172
Directory assembled
their
garden
hall
vast
the
passed through
went
to
in
in
officers of
the
The
occasion,
eleven
ministers, the
the festival.
airs of the
palace
of
rooms
veill^re-Lepeaux.
into
flags. At
give
Italy.
for the
turned
the
at
to
were
of
small
of the
members
place
Directors
too
trophies and
the
took
conqueror
large court3'ardwas
adorned
the
the
the
the
reception to
of
rooms
where
10
of
w^ere
ity,
Liberty, Equalfive chairs
dress, and
Diplomatic Body.
for
form
platOn
FESTIVITY
side
rose
each
THE
Music.
was
To
Republic.
rightand
flagsof
of
The
walls
hangings; and
was
suspended
amphitheatre
amphitheatre
different armies
the
adorned
were
the
amphitheatre
vast
of
large awning.
filled the
which
society were
which
had
looked
eagerly
women
see
been
whose
man
to
forward
seen
splendor,were
greeting one
crowd
with
The
President
usher
of
awaited
to
go
and
the
the
Chief
the
The
lips.
to
spectacleitself
tracted
at-
of
their
beauties, proud
of
their
men,
another
and
Ministers
the
the
noisy
favorite's arrival.
Directory gave
summon
one
proud
Foreign Affairs,Generals
and
one's
impatience its
of the
entertainment,
dresses, anxious
The
fashionable
sian
Pari-
hearing
they and
uniforms, the
of
seeing and
every
attention.
equal
rooms,
Every
handsomest
;
the
about.
on
was
their
be
to
multitude
leaders
this
at
talked
much
name
wore
and
gathered
of the
tricolored
with
and
altar
for
Conservatory of
the
left of this
the
over
173
LUXEMBOUUG.
and
authorities
the
bundle
THE
semicircular
vast
the constituted
AT
orders
to
of War
Bonaparte and
an
and
Joubert,
of
in
Brigade,Andr^ossy,who were
the apartments of La R^veillere-Lepeaux.
The
Conservatoryorchestra played a symphony,
but
suddenly
drowned
by an
side,
every
Bonaparte !
he is !
"
"
the
Long
live
the
live the
they shouted.
the
of cheers.
outburst
Long
of
noise
"
Cries
nation
he is,so
was
from
arose
Republic !
great
There
instruments
Long
!
"
young
"
live
There
and
so
174
CITIZENESS
famous
of
There
BONAPARTE.
is the
hero
of Lodi, of
Castiglione,
of Alexander
and
Caesar ! there he is !
"
His
modest
made
stature, his gauntness, his air of feebleness,
majestic,for
no
less
No
further attention
the
famous
him
alone, every
he
paid
was
who
men
majesty of glory.
the
to
there
were
fixed.
was
eye
the
wore
modestly, accompanied by
Foreign Affairs and of War, and
The
Hj^mn
chorus
assembly,in
chorus
the
all
who
then
and
the
solemn
advanced
to
Minister
follows
'
the
to
who
us
this certain
himself, the
about
this
I will pass
honor
of
followed
of
his
by
that
us
the
the
"
delight,repeated
The
and
the
invocation
of
to
the
erty
Lib-
fied
Italy electri-
whole
procession,
stood
bareheaded
General
Bonaparte
Directoryby
Directors,I have
Executive
with
Directory
the
Emperor.
peace,
marvels
;
but
the
parte,
Bona-
treaty
of
While
bringing
he recalls,in spiteof
that have brought
let him
reassure
historyand
as
of presenting
Citizen
the
leyrand,
Tal-
spoke
the honor
ratification of
pledge of
great event
Citizen
Foreign Relations,who
numberless
over
calmly
brings the
concluded
on
Ministers
tells
performance.
of
Citizen
the
liberator
arose
him, and
advanced
the
Directory,
presented to
was
peace
the
there,
were
duringthis
song.
sightof
soul
every
of
to
or
Conservatorysang
Moniteur
transport
of the martial
and
the
the
Liberty;
to
of
Directors
; on
He
and
aides.
him
himself,
will win
the
applause of posterity
; I
will
this
to-daythat
say
glow
AT
FESTIVITY
THE
glory, which
France, belongs
on
casts
Italy
bright a
so
out
With-
Revolution.
the
to
175
LUXEMBOUBG.
THE
of
Conqueror
the
"
would
have
Talleyrandtook
All Frenchmen,"
and the generalin his eulogies.
he said, have
conquered in Bonaparte ; his glory
is the property of all ; there is no
Republican who
"
"
far
so
ought to
Citizen
was
portion.
.
from
triumph,
vento
his
claim
cannot
Personal
offending equality, is
this very
on
day French
and
feel themselves
the future
called,used
then
the
its
and
refined
of Bene-
Prince
of the most
democratic
vicissitudes !
Minister
and
of
Foreign Affairs
in the presence
of Louis
the
Federation.
This
the
had
champion
been
ever
more
is full of
Talleyrand,the
the Republic one
said
mass
Antoinette
Marie
Republican, the
ardent
to
was
legitimacy,and
minister
old
Fructidor,
of
not
bishop who
and
XVI.
Champ
of the 18th
as
under
the former
was
indivisible,
on
Citizen
This
formulas
of the
subtle tone
proudest
Republicans
language
Beneath
accomplishedcourtiers.
most
greatness,
greater."
Talleyrand,as
appeared the
of the
appear
gator
insti-
one
forgetthat
Republic and of
to
day
he
the
Empire.
Yet
Bonaparte
was
rand's
extremely pleasedby Talley-
delicate flatteries.
Having
been
so
often
ac-
176
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTE.
cused
by
he
to
highlygratified
of the most
by one
was
former
^migr^s of beinga
For
court.
keen
well
the
appreciationof
that this young
would
hence
the
make
in
pardon
us
and
to
to
his hero.
closing,"of
this
disdain
from
him
for
glory,of
tlie
sance
obei-
them;
mer
for-
when
he
has
done
antique love
of
earth, when
very
the
"And
all that
who
appears
knows
one
every
had
he made
detach
of the
distribute
positionto
him,
simplicitythat distinguislies
abstract
man,
great noble-
wealth, knew
before whom
man
addressed
said
important persons
honors
refinement
think," he
praisedby
general,
part, Talleyrand,who
be in
soon
bishop
to
his
be
Jacobin
mere
splendor,those
his
petty
of
moment
hatred
new
of the French
calls
enemy
and
of the
him, renowned
its insolent
earth.
tyranny towards
May it,through
peace
imposed
France
They
him
upon
and
of all the
the world
long-winded; for
hero of
of
sea
the
;
and
parte's
Bona-
Republic
may
may
be
it avenge
"
Talleyrand,and found
impatient to hear
they were
the day. Every instant which
scarcelylistened
Bonaparte,the
glory
reassure
for its
to
THE
postponed the
he
of
length
Citizen
speech.
with
of
speaking
the
will
Minister's
his
peroration
the
pleasure
late
have
in
is impatient
you
blame
for
me
delaying
listeningto
has the
France
and
of
the
by
surrounds
which
pleasure you
hero
you,
throng
of
away
the
upon
finished
Carried
''
about
the
Talleyrand
words
these
excused
day
heaped
was
only the
lost,and
extravagant praisewhich
the
of Areola
hero
the
like time
to them
177
LUXEMBOURG.
THE
when
moment
speak seemed
to
AT
FESTIVITY
in
the
in the
addressing you
who
one
of all
name
of
name
old
an
friendship."
At
last
and
modest
his
commanding
the
crossingof
Emperor's
and
order
it had
to
to
you
attain
contend
The
and
to be
Moniteur,
Arcole,
at
silence.
was
"
Directory
Citizens,the French
to
constitution
fightwith
founded
eighteen centuries
with
Constitution
over
parte
Bona-
treaty of Campo
of the
:
deep
of the
President
free,had
triumphed
imagined
one
at
trasted
con-
There
follows
simple
dictatingpeace
the
as
His
Tagliamento, or
ratification
in order
In
the
to
spoke
the
bridge of Lodi,
at the
Formio.
handed
speak.
great reputation.Every
him
Campo
to
said
countenance,
with
at
about
Bonaparte was
of the
every
Year
III.
obstacle.
its
on
the
mio",
Forple,
peo-
kings.
reason,
of
was
dice.
prejumade,
Religion,
governed Europe
royalty,have successively
feudality,
for twenty centuries, but the peace
have
just
you
concluded
dates the
era
of
representativegovern-
178
You
ments.
vast
itself has
glory of
French
the
Republic.
When
of
tone
would
command,
have
done
produced
from
the
Emperor.
in
of the
organic
jerky voice, in
on
deeper impressionthan
famous
had
Bonaparte
forth
the
free."
finished,rapturous
ing
spread-
all about
filled
were
orators
side,and
every
it continued
rooms,
the
better
on
applause broke
the
I have
happiness
be established
When
of the century.
which
pedestalson
the
speech,delivered
short
of
the tomb
Majesty
greatest
and
the prosperity,
liberty,
the
people shall
the
His
by
since
with
the two
the
done
Europe, long
see
was,
nature
have
sciences,and
are
you
assures
peace
You
powerful nations.
two
to
because
libertyrisingfrom
ratified
and
Formio
This
erect
to
hand
to
of
They
their ancestor.
honor
and
birthplaceit
limited
fairest parts of
two
whose
men
organizingthe great
its boundaries.
famous
in
territoryis
drawn
The
more.
succeeded
have
whose
nation
so
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
by
in
a
the
dense
crowd.
Then
of the
Barras
Citizen
Directory,and
was
even
more
be inferred
was
enthusiastic
from
be said
it must
able to
the
Nature, chary of
speak
to
nourished
asserted,,he
Bonaparte,he
began
that
President
if,as
erally
gen-
jealousyof
for his speech
secret
conceal
than
as
it ;
as
Talleyrand's,
opening words :
bestows
prodigies,
"
may
Citizen
eral,
Gen-
seldom
great
180
CITIZENESS
steps ; the
an
as
it roars,
burdens
with
plaintivecries.
only his
government
the world
of
crush
free
his
at
man.
outraged humanity
Of the enemy
...
alone
it is also
perfidious
speedilyteach
people is
the
the
benefactor
of the
avenger
You
will find
this
it,and
summons
you
sustains
chains
againstthe
It will fight
his fleets.
Europe,
them, for it
carry
blushes
second
Crime
crime.
to
earth's wrath
it with
are
who
the
the elements
proud
slave
it invokes
tyrant who
for you
be
will
ocean
unconquered
is
BONAPARTE.
rightsof
nations."
After
out
his
his
arms
embrace.
Moniteur;
the
All
"
"
all
the General
embrace
country,
and
chair
the
Minister
the
set
has deserved
of
and
the
the
the
the
bards, one
thus
for
young
to
of the
Conservatoiy
zen
words by Citi-
girls.
us
unite in bonds
of
The
song
There
one
for
ended
Warriors.
Hymen
our
hands
Then
"
"The
Let
national
led him
not
of his
well
Diplomatic Body.
orchestra
the
Relations
Foreign
of
so
says
could
of the
their share
descended
in front
choruses
who
offer him
gratitude."
Bonaparte then
and
moved,"
spectators were
and
our
hearts.
THE
AT
FESTIVITY
The
and
Hymen
love
other
create
us
The
That
That, deaf
ossy, whom
and
their
They
bequeath to
the
words,
victory.
Young
Girls.
their
brighteyes,
the children
are
them
of the brave
tyrants,to slaves,
hearken
of
Minister
General
to
They always
The
warriors,and
day, at
will say
One
Conqueror'sreward.
Warriors.
Warriors
some
Girls.
the
are
181
LUXEMBOURG.
Young
The
Let
THE
War
Joubert
then
and
Bonaparte
presented to
Chief
had
oppressed."
of
the
tory
DirecAndre-
Brigade
commissioned
to
take
to
the
formed
taken
one
hundred
hundred
gloriousrecord:
most
hundred
that
they had
five
prisoners,
and
thousand
fifty
and
and
six
fiftypieces of siege artillery,
field-pieces
; that
eighteen
they had won
pitched battles
that
terpieces
they had sent to Paris the masof Michael
Angelo, Guercino, Titian, Paul
Veronese, Correggio,Albano, the Carracci, Raphael,
and
Leonardo
standard, the
da
oriflamme
Frenchman," exclaimed
Frenchman
Vinci
worthy
of
There
the
name
beat at the
this banner?
the
arms,
sightof
triumph of our
French
amid
capitol,
the
Republic !
the Minister
of the
the
was
Eternal
What
"
of War,
will not
"
what
be forever consecrated
trophieswon
famous
from
of
in the
conquered
182
CITIZEN
nations
BONAPARTE.
ESS
defenders
you, valiant
Glory to
of
covered
our
try,
coun-
with
such
"
After
general salute.
it from
received
the
The
Joubert
French
of the
and
another
the banner
of
President
the hands
of the
name
the
with
Directory
warriors.
two
In
"
Republic,"he exclaimed,
"
salute you,
Brave
rid the
to
General
saluted
Andr^ossy, the artillery
from
a
from
speech
dishonor
universe
Let
it.
.
The
appear
who
Saint James's
country
wishes
it
it.
surrounded
with
the halo
'
'
be
thrown
over-
Citizen
and
oppress
Palace
humanity requires
commands
of the monsters
eral,
Gen-
of your
ing
rav-
ago,
still
man
and
ruses
country." The Conservatorychothe Song of Return^ the public joining
chanted
the
in, as a superiorofficer carried aAvay reverentially
to hang it aloft in the
banner of the Army of Italy,
the defence
Room
Council
It
were
of the
was
of the
grandfestivity
; the transportsof
sincere and
these
over
solemn
derision.
to console
every
give to
Did
it not
and
"
enthusiasm
government that
rites has
misfortune,
the amazed
France
The
generous.
subjectof
sightof
Directory.
been
possess
victory?
fascinated
sided
pre-
too
often the
one
talisman
Could
it,in
Diplomatic Body,
that fine,glorious
name,
of which
the
THE
whole
judged
world
Yes
nation
this
immortal
aspect.
wrought
such
they
sufferings,
criticise
which
face
of
but
also
principles
be
has
that
and
recognized.
to
hearts
ideas
win
the
of
of
that
of
of
France
not
people
grandeur
its
is
A
its
the
annexed,
that
last
at
their
easier
to
ment
governthe
in
faults
and
posterity.
natural
merely
it
had
language
spite
an
fatigues,
haughty
in
liberty.
who
it
indulgence
gave
could
which
the
claims,
the
upon
their
that
under
Directory.
the
such
use
felt
Doubtless
imitate
to
Europe
government
for
triumphs.
could
weaknesses,
and
rewarded
word,
soldiers
heroism
great
awe
appeared
valiant
of
miracles
their
than
the
the
religious
the
Revolution
Yes
amply
were
of
sort
of
that
pronounced
the
day
worthy,
with
was
183
LUXEMBOURG.
THE
it
multitude
that
on
it
joyous
Yes
AT
FESTIVITY
caimot
ries,
bounda-
territory,
rested
fail
on
to
XIX.
ENTERTAINMENT
AN
AT
THE
MINISTRY
FOREIGN
OF
RELATIONS.
Souvenirs
his
IN
Swiss
under
clown
lying
solitaryand
less
its
by
it
arouse
them
with
the
it
the
assured
of the
me
year
to
an
that
face
hair
of
were
of
184
devil.
than
he
favorite
this ecclesiastic
was
slope
It
of
was
felt for
to
colonel, had
told
head
inclined
have
the
which
already sated
was
the bands
me
accustomed
was
should
some
the
the
who
ecclesiastic, and
covered
in
certain
if it
others
malignity,
spectators who
man
"struck
on,
and
mind
and
face, which
expression,by
its
in
His
"
the
Avalking
notieed
goes
man,
interest
was
cut
belonged
A
by
worldly pleasures.
suppose
not
by
fashionable
man
he
charm,"
nault
Ar-
apparently plunged
tree,
singular air,as
more
of
than
animated
evidentlyof
to
Versailles, he
at
indifference
of
very
angel
an
of
beauty
combination
gave
philosophic thought.
devoid
not
was
lake,
that
narrates
the
near
of
me
it
that
pastoral cross
bishop."
the half-million
of the
Champ
de
AN
Mars
eration,
Arnault, watching the Festival of the Fed-
was
when
he
celebrated
be
his
on
cope
185
ENTERTAINMENT.
saw
on
in the
back,
hillock where
his
on
head,
populace.
"
to recogiuze
year
I had
about.
His
"
What
was
in him
heard
face
gality
patrioticprodi-
court, the
of Autun
explained to
on,
goes
!
For
talked
much
his conduct
me
and
army,
of Versailles
]_)relate
Bishop
hand,
and
his face."
his conduct
Arnault
have
must
still
been
1797, Monseigneur
find, in
with
in
cross
he
surprise,"
my
the
the
to
was
open
mitre
mass
Citizen
into
transformed
of
Foreign
metamorphosis
French
without
was
of
Bishop
Autun
Minister
Talleyrand, the
of the
Relations
the
surprised to
more
Republic.
parallel;it
Such
an
was
avatar.
How
many
of the
Federation
On
the
had
Talleyrand
massacres
England, signed by
From
maintain
relations
however,
did
not
the
on
of the
account
of
to
prevent
list of
Louis
a
Bill
XVI.
his
terrible
being
emigres at
he
In
passport for
continued, it
in
discovery,
September
Danton's
ministers, on
this
letter in which
regarded as
the Alien
he
with
after the
obtained
all the
London
motion.
day
Festival
since the
said, to
was
leader, which,
accused
the end
and
of
the celebrated
1792,
dangerous person;
was
appliedto him.
he
and
He
Av^as
his
vices
ser-
generally
early in
set
on
robe,
iron ward-
secretlyoffered
London
scribed
in-
sail
1794
on
186
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
ship for
Danish
the United
States,and
there
awaited
events.
.
death
Robespierre's
After
leave
and
to
to return
acolyte at
M.
favor
Masson
Fr(^ddnc
book, The
of
mass
His
France.
the
he
of
has
good fortunes
with
their
Exile's
the
support, before
return
from
former
friends,of
made
and
him
He
their
de
Convention
petition which
Convention
The
had
his
day, Madame
made
former
him
has
Catelan
de
sold
of
hear
of the
liis
and
up
one
meeting
of
Talleyrand
of
fine
word
manners;
sell the
him
people
to
be
flatlyopposed.
him," said
of Public
priestwill
of
curiosity. He
wanted
about
Committee
quest.
re-
his
on
leaders
of the influential
this, Carnot
a
been
his
out
Stael, who
minister; but
member
decided
in Paris
formerly
wit
acquainted with
me
to
sang
granted his
welcome
warm
took
of the
"He
who
successors
let
Stael, and
Ch^nier
in the
master.
Philadelphia,
soliciting
permission to
remembered
"Don't
his relations
de la Bouchardie
the
received
Ladies
became
mistresses
their
Madame
fashion
influence.
his remarkable
in
his
had
the
France.
to
return.
of
persons
Romanza., and
September 4, 1795,
sent
vicar-general
of old times, of
chie"; the stock-jobbers
speculationswhich
had
get
'Federation,Desre-
said
ton's
Dan
for him,
Legendre was
Boissy d'Anglas. Madame
to
to
of his
Ch^nier
hard
former
the
the
tried
wliole
God.
the
Safety.
This
Directory."
188
wonders
rough,violent
and
honors
liofhtedshe would
be
to
the
"
draAving-room!
life of the
Italy January 2,
from
of
First
a
was
word
mansion
in
du
Bac,
influence.
How^
de-
elegance,urbanity,the
ball
The
was
she
of the
for
set
the
ister
Min-
day
The
that
so
get
ball-room.
Paris
of the
to
at the
obtain
to
the
1786,
scarcelytime
hope
about
Gallifet,a rich
Hotel
recognize
Josephine reached
1798.
Relations
Foreign
band's
hus-
arisinsfac^ain what
see
had
would
would
her
through
money
effect of her
She
manners.
friends who
old
emotion
with
the
modify
would
she
BONAPARTE.
ESS
CITIZEN
its former
settled
of the
corner
rue
de
ministry
had
owners
in it.
It
the
finished
un-
had
the
in
was
lowing.
fol-
rue
Grenelle, between
the side
on
courtyardand a garden ; the mansion
of the court
being adorned by a great open peristyle,
thirty feet liigh. To
consistingof Ionic columns
a
with
peristyle
covered
The
leading to
passage
to
left
the
the
forms
columns
grand
staircase.
the
fagade towards
columns;
Doric
the
top of
drawing-rooms
Etruscan
the
were
temple
was
staircase.
All
painted over
built,in which
the
anew.
was
of
walls
the
little
AN
of Brutus,
garden,which
the
corps of the
The
began.
:
grace
his
Paris
He
manners.
was
had
splendor,and
At
opinions,but
political
Republican whose
those of the
the
his
altered
loved
He
Monarchy.
the
politeness,
cold
the
ent
differ-
all the
from
garrison.
did
In
Bonaparte,
by Bengal lights,
soldiers
were
Minister
had
he
illuminated
was
in which
tents
were
General
present from
"
189
ENTEBTAINMENT.
not
ways
tinued
con-
show
and
of
repose
with malice,
the indifference tinctured
good society,
delicate perceptions,which
the exquisite tact, the
marked
the men
of the old regime. He brought into
a
world
new
bishop,in
former
been
had
made
ministry,was
would
imagine
the
himself
the
in
For
been
placeof
perilsof
pretty
have
had
the smell
of
the
women,
thought
the
years
No
one
but
Perfumes
the
and
sufferings
bad
The
dream.
flowers,the lights,
"
happy days
took
of Marie
one
would
Antoinette
returned.
Madame
looked
much
Bonaparte was
at
great deal,
more
infinitely
effect.
but
The
many
cityof revolutionary
blood, and
past seemed
the
into
seen.
given
turned
and
times.
splendorhad
and
show, pomp,
no
sign of
property
and
dwelling,which
aristocratic
an
Boeuf
de
entertainment
This
national
a
Q^il
of the
manners
of Versailles.
of the court
by
the
the
great
attraction
She
impressed.
her
husband
presence
peace
of the
of
produced
of the
Campo
evening.
was
hero
of
Formio,
His
ui?
190
CITIZEN
BONAPARTE.
ESS
eagle
aroused
eye,
much
any
of the
the
slightesttoken
fashionable
regardedas
he
As
Arnault
who
face, liis
attention
ball-room
the
Give
"
me
arm
your
ready to charge on
together,they won't dare to
are
walk
us
glance,a word,
his
on
part,
about
the
are,
young
girlapproaching
for you
know
said to
he
;
me
long
in
on
will tell
her
as
and
trimmed
with
the
of oak-leaves.
wreath
the
daughter,pearls:
their attire.
the
whom
all the
favorite
entertainments
failure,the
Turk
whose
over
a
"
beauty
Comnena.
that you
were
Arnault,
down
on
only
make
of
de
wore
difference in
all the
and
merous
nu-
before
enthusiastic
Permont,
him," murmured
ladies,
escape
waned
most
The
given
money
Italy,was
de Permont
popularityhad
of Madame
told
"I
to
size of
diamonds
proprietorshad
theatre
ribbons,
Each
wore
with
of
dress
of Abrantes.
Duchess
pul-
matre
of the
Madame
was
future
Ambassador,
the
Let
was
satin
silver.
mother
was
mother
daughter,the
Turkish
to
The
with
The
that
puff
are
all the
There
mother,
broad
two
many
we
who
me
poet
talk.
our
everybody."
with
the
great
see
; so
break
liall; you
masks
white
was
great favor.
entered
:
beauties.
did
than
admiration
more
of
his
profile,
Roman
who
was
Bonaparte,
Greek."
when
the
general had
bench
between
two
windows.
sat
Scarcely
AN
had
he
taken
his
It's impossibleto
"
de
Madame
placewhen
beside him.
down
191
ENTERTAINMENT.
"
must
you
Stael
sat
approach 3'our
present
to
me
him."
She
"
introduction
other
some
asks
obey
to
present her
to
me
the
overwhelmed
givinghim
crowd
clearlyto
"
That
is very
one
who
"The
most?"
"I
that.
understand
can
the first of
women
low
Madame
to
At
Song,
"
The
Madame."
and
"
and
is the
best
who
But
The
answered.
the
esteem
think
you
dren,
chil-
has most
out
is
laughing;
great man
women
her
housekeeper."
do
burst
in
was
you
who
one
after
General, what
"
do
orchestra
the
all the
him,
company
Arnault, "Your
midnight
that he
whom
Stael, much
de
de Stael first
"My wife," he
but
and
about
compliments,and
she asked
natural
General,
me.
Madame
understand
love best?"
do you
and
name,
gathered
with
hero
Allow
you.
great attention.
listened with
her
than
you
to
The
her."
to
played
made
odd
the
their
way
man."
Parting
to
the
dred
table with three hunat a
galleryand sat down
places. Talleyrandproposed toasts, each one
being followed by coupletscomposed by Despr^s and
by Lays, Chenard, and Chdron.
Despreaux, sung
the songs,
Between
a
German
baron,
"
at that time.
Dugazon
a
sort
told
comic
of entertainment
story about
much
mired
ad-
192
After
the
took
the
her
to
leave
at
he
kept
her and
The
ball cost
for
and
supper,
ball, but it
the
and
bore
it
had
the
the
peering
of
and
manners
mask
the
government
the
French
and
of
ciliation
con-
Convention,
the
side
side
by
That
days.
recalled
who
It
it at
indeed
was
of
the
that
High
under
would
love
pleasure,honoi-s
of
and
the
old
gime
re-
beneath
Talleyrand
Lord
ration
resto-
; a
From
court.
alreadydreaming
of the Tuileries.
symbol
elegance
of the
old
Talleyrand'sball
of Citizen
face
of
Minister
real restoration
new
to draw
was
there
taste."
good
From
spent.
of other
ladies
Bonaparte, knowing
doubtless
of
said, "Minister
beginning of
democratic
and
brilliant
the
large
of the
union
appeared
social event,
of the
was
with
love
was
of the
pleased Bonaparte,
stamp
It
of Autun
Members
had
Helena, and
not
was
counting
well
money
been
fusion.
so
and
political
of
was
the
Saint
he
in
police.
ex-Bishop
Jacobins,
regicides,
the
the
why
much
was
entertainment
Foreign Relations
with
Girardin
to
new
to
he
Throughout
morning.
According
it said that
this investment
is
close
parte
Bona-
again.
on
excessivelyjealous.
the
singers,
sum
in the
one
alone.
have
to
sorry
ball went
the
supper
supper
BONAPABTE.
ESS
CITIZEN
ready
al-
was
lain;
Chamberform
every
luxury
and
decorations,
future
dors
splen-
XX.
BONAPARTE
AND
JOSEPHINE
BEFORE
TO
EGYPT.
appeared
BONAPARTE
yet
and
he
multitude
:
teur
There
and
who
Hero, dear
In
two
this
distich
this
Pindar
French
"
thus
seen
my
I have
seen
the hero
"
verse.
the
to
Victory,
"
centuries
of
glory !
Citizen
man,
the
reproduced
of
Italy
"
his knees
Fate,
After
so
What
does
scorn
of brass Discord
thy
and
Envy.
shears ;
gloriousa sight
life still offer
me
?"
193
"
Palissot,
country triumph.
tripleknot
Moni-
surnamed
againstus
I have
With
and
"
tyrants armed
chained
old
an
fashion
of Simeon
He
atry
like idolThe
in prose
by Lebrun,
thousand
of
impromptu
Over
him
the
vain
"
he wins
own
In
something
to
years
in his
"
praiseof
filled with
was
height of gioiy,
nothing could
was
with
him
worshipped
the
at
contented.
not
was
DITION
EXPE-
THE
ciation
denun-
194
CITIZENESS
No
a
BONAPARTE.
his
sovereignin
capitalhas
own
modest
going
home
he
street, which
At
toire.
himself
the
at
back
it
popular pieces,if
The
manager
General
hid
spiteof
in
demonstrations.
to
such
thing
"
is
he has. struck
two
possible.
were
impossible for
that
word
of
out
dictionary."
he
When
December
was
than
elected
his
in
reception at
produced perhaps
embroidered
the Institute
public had
eyes
happened
to
not
HoGhe,
which
provoked
which
the
England.
that
but
the
but
whole
that
the
heartiest
a
company
greater
of
day
Louvre, where
at
day
hero
Bonaparte,
poet spoke of
Tlie
The
that
this wonderful
read
Institute,
palm-leaves
green
held
were
only for
of Hoche
was
with
general'suniform.
the palace of the
meetings of
Chdnier
of the
member
26, 1797, he
and
he
to
replied, Nothing
Bonaparte;
la Vic-
that
was,
the
secretary,Bourrienne,
ask him
very
de
vain
he
of
name
rue
enthusiastic
his
sent
to
manager
in
was
of the box
object of
he
called
was
theatre
the
morning
theatre
henceforth
himself, the
the
His
men
surprised by findingwork-
was
the
changing
One
of Arcole.
hero
was
more
dwelling in the rue Chantereine
than mighty palaces. One
evening when he
famous
was
the
produced
ever
man.
young
poem
the
applause
projected
burst
the
time, the
of the
and
his
in
memoration
com-
occasion
passage
one
in
invasion
of
was
into
cheers,
other
196
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
surrounded
tiers who
of
perpetual gratifications
showered
Ills
him,
upon
his
all
were
pride
the
success,
fortune
which
incapableof satisfying
which
ardent, restless s^^irit,
manded
imperatively de-
Restless,and
for
the
tired of his
grow
rienne.
"
lost.
am
Babylon ;
the
"
no
offered
he
declined
it.
so
it would
be
the
eagerly if
weighs
on
me," he
In
old, he
grows
Rome.
so
Doubtless
famous
above
as
him
simple
his, but
they
were,
of which
he
to
the
said
on
about
was
another
citywhich
to
"
just
me
This
''
occasion,
swallows
soon
would
in all France
have
second
in
name
no
Directors
were
was
of his command.
him
everythingso
the
officially,
in
gested
sug-
scaffold."
villageto being
official communication
him
crowd
Csesar, who
there
Bourrienne
where
remembered
preferredbeing first in
tration
adminis-
The
"Bah!
fellow-citizens,
this
reputations,and
times
ance,
specialperform-
When
would
going
were
great
if I go three
me
him
his
people
of lead."
coat
many
No
"
this
applause of
in
seldom."
I go very
Opera
"
at
the
the
another
succeeds
will look
one
replied,
like
everythingelse.
fame
that
Paris
should
public
One
but
as
the
If I
of
he
of
glory as
theatre, so
receive
when
come
remembers
one
to
to
moment
but
subordinate.
they
The
could
Duke
By
have
of
prived
de-
Ragusa
BEFORE
EXPEDITION
THE
"If
justlyremarked:
has
have
to
an
the
of
their back
story that
his
make
he
added,
"
country."
"
IMadame
the
of Milan
Duke
do
Brumaire,
de Stael
of
King
well
not
Barras
Italy.
of the
sort
think
of
to
in any
such
truth.
unless
he
capitallike
Paris
its master.
were
that
Barras
seemed
have
To
there
him
odious
depend
to
the
spoke
to
tory
Direc-
"
to
But,"
"
tells
wanted
Italians,who
and
have
talkingto
was
contemplate nothing
You
18th
evening he
one
tined
des-
was
slightest
attempt against
him."
upon
ascendancyover
him
the
the
Directory,nine-tenths
turned
197
EGYPT.
Bonaparte, who
success
easy
TO
the
on
been
an
intolerable
without
weariness.
superiorcontrol
absolute monarch,
and
citywhere
the
hands.
the end
At
rienne, I don't
do.
They
that
if I
of
want
won't
will
Everything wears
this little Europe
out
what
firstI want
can't
can
be
to
he
he
had
acted
like
of his element
stay here
all
be
there is
anything.
all up
here
with
see
me
glory
my
supply
said:
any.
undertaken.
will
"Bour-
nothingto
very
very
well
soon.
is all gone
I must
ports,to
an
in
see
take
go to the
made.
great reputationsare
visit the
had
in his
not
were
January, 1798, he
to
stay,it
But
years
government
listen to
two
he felt out
of
reins
For
for
myself
you,
and
198
England
the
of the
Army
Egypt."
Bonaparte's visit
the
to
He
Lille, and
Are
you
I didn't
Paris
to
Saint
what
satisfied ?
find
For
that
of
week's
only a
The
land
and
Africa
such
England,
"
who, with
more
only money,
exclaim, in
dam
"
I don't want
it.
the
mole-hill; you
find
only in
East,
great revolutions
; to
win
"
the
and
were
triumphs
Mediterranean
Asia
; to
the
vast
reason
than
and
he had
moment
Wliither
of
To
in the
of
the
ions
relig-
tals
pedes-
strange,colossal,fabulous
attain
to
the
of men."
millions
remoteness
glory;
results ; to make
to traverse
that
or
of his
had
confess
must
"
six hundred
are
greater by
of
trip?
grand hopes in
The
Bonaparte replied:
resources
"Europe
grow
of your
result
part,I
my
year
said:
there
sels,
Brus-
General,"
Well,
"
he
tion.
dura-
through Antwerp,
the
heard."
moment
determined.
where
I shall go
to trifle with
had
England
ports, which
From
invasion
of
East, and
Quentin.
great
any
and
saw
fear, an
northern
was
Bourrienne, "what's
asked
If, as
seems
become
will
to
Sulkowski.
and
Lannes,
of
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
dreams
Fouquet,
glory,
shall I not
rise ?
from
of this
man
"
for
was
"
rapture
India
East
wrest
"
"
lake ;
French
Quo
Fouquet
tempted to
non
aseen-
The
unknown,
was
No
him.
yet
knew
one
he
where
faith
to
pany
accom-
going,but
was
felt in
was
take
under-
to
wanted
one
every
blindly,for
followed
was
199
EGYPT.
expedition he proposed
of the
aim
TO
EXPEDITION
THE
BEFORE
he
his star.
tions,
Strangelyenough, Bonaparte did not give any indicaof the point of
to his principalgenerals,
even
having
The
destination.
had
the
imprudence
Directorynullified
order
'lishingan
go to Brest
to
Militarymen
in
this
command
not
were
in
also wished
to
that
had
he
not
been
able
old
won't
Lays
go
with
speaking of
this
We
the occasion
the soldiers.
he."
to
the
and
bound
Opera.
"
him
ships
hard-
the
am
servatory
Con-
the
to
that
sorry
one
; we
arose,
would
No
one
Bonaparte wished
would
need
sing at
have
would
bard, who
the head
had
such
suit
of
our
might,
umns.
col-
our
good
effect
better than
me
From
chose
Dolomieu
Monge, Berthollet,Denon,
and
been
have
authors, Arnault
gretted
re-
Lays, the
endure
to
was
singer; "he
need
His voice
on
take part
take with
to
when
to
land.
Eng-
go
composer,
Ossian.
of
Army
asking to
he
Bonaparte
of the
alone
by pub-
ists,
expedition: civilians,scholars,engineers,art-
and
"-
General
commanding
the
Egypt,
the
take
mention
to
31,
Parceval
from
the savants
;
from
of
he
the
the artists,
Rigel,
200
the
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
took
Lays's
generalhow
the
Egypt. "A
Bonaparte ;
little
the
of workmen,
twenty-nine;
Tell every
did
a
not
the
All
his
because
who
his
are
only
not
old
well, in India.
war
the
and
with
Paris,
and
bridled.
Austria
with
in
the
pedition,
Egyptian exalthough he
day, he kept
spurs,
Night
missed
was
doned,
nearly aban-
complicationssoon
resumed
and
his
uniform.
the
He
he
time
campaign
continuallywore
wear
were
artists,all
We
actors.
for action.
eager
Italian
moment,
but the
circumstances.
on
if all goes
years," answered
: that's
thirty-five
me,
stay in
to
to
the
he
see
tion,
expedi-
who
family."
Bonaparte Avas
of powder.
smell
between
six
or
and
shall be
we
one
going
are
he meant
women,
these
long
while,
of the
secret
everything depends
"
I shall colonize
sorts
in the
was
seemed
vanished, and
vigor.
imminen^
the preparations
There
were
many
ever
get
"
you
against
they will
the
government.
after you ?
Aren't
"
"
you
The
afraid
Parisians
BEFORE
cry,
but
THE
will
they
but
horseback,
come.
no
We
EXPEDITION
never
they
one
shall
would
leave
are
TO
do
anything
not
unhappy.
follow
to-morrow."
me
201
EGYPT,
they
If
the
time
contented,
dis-
are
got
on
hasn't
XXI.
FAREWELL.
THE
AT
TOULON.
and
3, 1798, Bonaparte
acting in
was
as
warmly
the
play
the
to
as
he
over,
Victoire, he
spies,who
of the
expedition,he
had
quietly,and
to
leaving.
Yet
she would
this
not
bid
Germain
whether
and
should
of
202
When
started
Paris
next
at
had
farewell
allow
de
to
la
the
to
way
destination
the
all his
preparations
to
Saint
daughter,
before
Josephine
her
not
Bonaparte
her
rue
made
let
even
and
the
his
on
ing
nothwhen
in
was
knew
morning,
ignorance of
mysterious expedition on
start.
and
be away,
he
home,
the
he
still in
were
received
was
return.
Lavalette.
desire
the
He
of his
already well
was
With
South.
Talma
days
that
thought
Frangais, where
departure;
one
bourg,
Luxem-
went
every
the
at
of Ducis.
the first
midnight,taking with
of his
Barras
Theatre
the Macbeth
on
was
with
Josephine, after
to
go
know
had
not
how
long
told her
accompany
him
he
about
which
was
on
to
204
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
all
over
with
no
18th
Brumaire,
Napoleon
to die at
who
men
and
for themselves
in 1798
But
all
was
for
the
been well
his greatest
Do
not
them.
far from
making such
Toulon, May 9, he
reached
he
drew
Toulon, he
at
whom
In
pride,enthusiasm, hope.
smothering ;
the
it have
misfortunes
his
too
When
reflections.
those
would
long for
Bonaparte was
life,it is
human
called
are
that
Were
before
twenty-nine,
also before
but
glories,
the
And
young
Waterloo
no
they said
right when
ancients
Pyramids,
onation,
Empire, no cor-
Consulate, no
no
Austerlitz,
no
battle of the
no
Paris, he
full
was
In
breath.
with
assumed
he
of
one
no
less
tomb, and
In
At
the
man.
and
of arms,
he
was
is natural
murmur
trumpets, the
roar
de Stael
instead of
of his army
of the
again,
in this
had
lifted its
he
waves,
posed
ex-
popular
that of courts."
have
glad to
the
remaining
Paris
brilliancy,
of the
only
For
seemed
heavy
felt himself
the
dignity
de Stael said,
who
man
ingenious than
presence
The
poeticperson,
is
relations
air of
Madame
to the
is
in his
He
to become
form
and
an
alternately
He
in command."
master.
familiarity
; but, as
he failed in both.
when
"
be their subordinate
them
and
"
to
seem
lid.
new
the clash
sailors,
the
voice
drums, inspiredhim.
of the
He
only
saw
bound
the
he
whither
of
going:
what
was
Crimea
Did
To
of the Pharaohs
To
capture Jerusalem
to
penetrate
in the
great interest
The
The
for
him
to
stake
his
career
of the
It
tries to
this desire
of
hunter
win,
about
was
Wliat
he
the
was
to leave
tear
have
to
he
and
seemed
would
out
Through-
extraordinary,
with
cope
He
who
joy to
obstacles
always pursued
as
the
gambler
When
country, any
he
feeling
unworthy of a
thought a weakness.
longer Josephine,but
to
have
reallyloved, was
fall.
keen
devouring passion.
his wife
iously
anx-
greater its
his prey,
pursues
with
"
regret would
man
was
would
of the
generallythought insuperable.
a
ignorance
to
unknown,
victoryas
due
The
masses.
England
was
horse.
restive
Those
uncertaintyprevailed
Asia.
He
Bonaparte.
only for
care
the
perilousthe adventure,
more
charm
Alexander?
the thunderbolt
where
wondering
of Suez ?
same
and
Europe, Africa,
over
Isthmus
expeditionwas
of its destination.
to the
the land
imagination of
the
was
to conquer
pierce the
like
England ;
to
mean
knew
one
his fleet
coast
India, like
into
mysteriesfired
he
No
war.
Portugal or
to
Egypt.
to
or
to
205
TOULON.
brilliant side
whether
"
AT
FABEWELL
THE
no
him
glory.
A
few
months
given place to
more
before,he would
him
to the
the hero.
love-letters such
as
wars
He
but
was
he wrote
perhapshave
now
to
the lover
write
from
taken
to
her
has
no
Italy, It was
206
CITIZENESS
Jean
longer
no
him
but
could
to
Jacques
Plutarch,
reached
they
as
her
expose
the
to
the
five thousand
follow within
two
in
she had
months, when
So
May 15 : My
days at Toulon
dear
;
was
to
"
sorry
able
Caroline.
which
to
say
But
seeing you
had
he should
send
brought
her
Hortense, I have
tired
not
was
have
left you
good by
somewhat
again very
consoled
soon.
Italy. He
Hortense,
to my
Good
will send
I shall
dear
by
the
hope
Bonaparte
does
wants
to
me
have
soon
in two
the
by, my
knew
that he had
dear
from
better
kept him
not
go
to
voyage
to
me
months.
So, dear
pleasure of pressing
Bonaparte
winds
for
without
my
watering-placebefore undertakingthe
him, but
for five
to
some
sail with
daughter,
journey,but
and
you
the
France
suddenly
so
to
her
been
the
by
should
to
me
to
harm.
no
be settled
her
to
was
fetch
to
Josephine wrote
am
woman
she
wish
you.
that he would
you
he
alreadysailed
leagues; that
Egypt ; and
frigatePomone,
of
for
no' terrors
being
soon
expedition. Josephine
thingshad
Bonaparte,to
very
As
and
Creole
interested
climate,and
than
more
who
the
Rousseau
take her to
not
voyage,
BONAPARTE.
how
I love
much
girl."
the
movements
be off without
detained
for ten
of the
delay,but
days at
lish
Engtrary
con-
Toulon.
FAREWELL
THE
this time
He
spent
the
loading,and
hundred
sail
it,and
on
vast
carried
to
three-decker,with
confidence.
had
cooler
great dangerswhich
rendered
the
so
and
ors
sail-
heads,
not
of
down
bear
sighted,to
was
tillery,
ar-
orders,
away
fervor
about
thousand
ten
range
full of
were
each
for
water
months, carried
fleet
English
naval
ranean.
Mediter-
grenadiers,accustomed
placed on
the
case
the
on
suppliedwith
was
for two
of
hundred
forth
to set
food
men
Five
W3re
in
about
with
forty thousand
sailors.
fleet,which
month, and
207
TOULON.
in
were
The
a
AT
twofold
of the
of the expedition
success
been
was
met
lost,not
sailed with
the enemy
the army,
it would
have
of the
Army
of
the very
oppositereason.
about
shipswith
in
Since
their full
necessary
quota of
each
;
and
taken
place,their
men
ship the
in such
three
would
have
of
men
the
would
movements
enemy
the
alreadyon
number
case
of
thing
everya
have
ships encumbered,
would
for
distributed
they were
superfluousis a positivedisadvantage.If
had
Italy
not
men
if the
the voyage,
on
the flower
because
said that
fight
been
and
necessarilyhave
where, in ordinarycircumstances, it
found
one
or
no
one
at
all.
Arnault
208
CITIZENESS
also mentions
and
BONAPARTE.
the inconvenience
its material
the shrouds
the decks
littered
have
had
to
have
to
begun by sacrificing
be
expedition.
would
face of
ships
with
of
and
that
goes
good
Malta?
had
we
with
luck
Yet
adds
one
"
would
in
the
that
the
short-
crew
encumbered
success
sort, would
required
the enemy
of the
to
in
almost
we
were
would
Bonapartecould
not
but
enforced
we
to
were
then
were
probabilities
chance
have
been
expeditionto succeed,"
was
of the pause
lightheart
even
the
"there
in view
the
one
was
sight of
acknowledged that
which
win
destroyed,
by meeting
impossibleto count
upon
have
not
a
victory would
For
"
on,
no
All
not
simo
generalis-
even
then
even
progress, and
our
it
the convoy.
such
He
the
the
vessels of every
squadron;
victory,and
and
ruined
the
compelled to
chances.
necessityscattered,and
voyage,
have
of
means
material
which
artillery
vented
prehandling; that this vast fleet,
composed
sloopsand
Marmont
the
that
should
we
same
adverse
and
troops
saved
defence
insufficiently
equipped, the
ignorant,the men-of-war
any
a
thing,and that he
justifyan expedition made
to
proper
of
the
many
were
handed
find himself
says
so
into
tillery
ar-
of attack,all would
case
victorywould
prayed Heaven
We
undertake
not
In
"
the
obstructed,
were
not
Marmont
by it.
thrown
Even
conquest.
produced by
hundred;
certain
we
ruin.
how
smooth
expect
slowness
make
of
before
against us;
were
sailing
It must
be
that Fortune
would
be unkind
her
no
deemed
than
more
obstacles
going,
he
But
he
ship
succeeded
in
believed
to
that
great
of
and
me
of those
one
themselves
destiny; he
companions.
in
him.
when
moments
themselves
be to
fortune
believed
they
as
English
my
his
eyes
well
there
can
it to
himself, and
his
the
sincerelyimagine
men
storms
In
ships.
fearing
carries
had, in fact,reached
He
feared
He
Returning, as
communicating
in
favors from
many
himself. What
alone
not
was
so
Nelson's
thought
said
He
for the
won
idle dreams.
209
TOULON.
never
fear
had
he feared
were
cruisers.
He
He
him.
to
that he
AT
FAREWELL
THE
human
above
demi-gods.
departure.Nelson,
as
the
May 19, the day of the
English admiral, was guarding the port. A violent
of the
French
squall, which
damaged only one
and
drove the English fleet into the offing,
frigates,
it
damaged
withdraw
the French
husband
her
with
moment;
when
over
him
could
he should
see
The
he
see
not
his
resume
1, twelve
days after
parte
farewell of Bona-
The
"
few
been
women
know
to
see
when
again,even
her
he
amiable.
so
passionately. He
her
her
could
obliged to
Toulon,
to
was
most
Madame
loved
he
sailed.
Her
Nelson
till June
Josephine was
known
know
Toulon
fleet had
and
'*
repairs,and
for
before
station
have
severely that
so
had
carried
until
the
last
parted
from
her
whether
he should
her?"
hour
of
departure
had
come.
Bonaparte's
210
had
proclamation
"
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
have
Soldiers,you
sieges;
there
found
fought
remains
for you.
sea
and
sometimes
the
on
plains of
Zama.
men.
man
Ro-
imitated,
on
Victory never
them, because
this
serted
de-
brave, patient to
they were
and
disciplined
fatigue,
endure
The
not
sea
all his
mountain, plains,in
on
have
you
of
hearts
at
war
legions,whom
but
the
united.
The
Genius
of
and
seas
of
the
awaited
the
to those
of the forts.
signal;
heightsabove
on
the
cannon
vast
of the
fleet
ships replied
multitude
The
covering the
emotion
patriotic
the
lit by a brilliant
imposing spectacle,which was
sun.
on
a
balcony of the InJosephine was
tendant's
who
house, trying
make
to
her
out
through
husband,
spyglass.
of the French
fleet?
Would
Would
the
to become
was
able
to
already embarked,
was
What
be
the
nations."
remotest
fortress open
its doors ?
Would
it
pregnable
im-
he get to
Would
they
they be able to land?
have to fight,
not merely againstthe Mamelukes, but
also againstthe numberless
hordes of Turkey? What
did it matter?
Bonaparte believed himself master of
Egypt?
Would
fortune.
Josephine was
"
alarmed
fickle
waves
at
at
sea
and
the
husband
seeing her
of the
admiral's
alarmed
once
of
and
brave
destiny;
the
sails
proud of
At a signal
and
departinghero.
the
flagship,
proud,
equally
were
bent, the
XXII.
PARIS
DURING
in
JUST
always
as
the
follows
THE
comes
hate.
or
irascible
violent
wrath,
scepticism.
for
instance,
sounds
like
fashioned,
months
old
which
at
one
is
perhaps
the
passions. During
for
nearly ten
endured
As
such
Th"3ophile
laughed
and
intense
at
the
absurd
had
ficklest
Year
VII.
in
for
old-
few
resemble
in
its tastes
Paris
and
was
the
and
weary
militaryglory.
populace
varied
bates,
de-
which
sightsand
emotions.
Lavall^e
has
Republic, not
dresses,but
212
an
parliamentary
such
seen
who
all cities
the
little interest
years
one,
every
Of
or
Marseillaise^
the
suddenly
there
in indifference
paroxysm
another, like
masses
draw.
cannot
Orators
chorus.
the
in
popular crises
ends
; at
calm
city,however
arouses
hymn
moved
world, Paris
of
moment
sublime
who
actors
so
revolutionarysong,
worn-out
ago
terrible
often
natures
remain
always
After
lassitude
VK.
most
fieryits passions,cannot
of energy
YEAR
at
said
merely
its wisest
"
at
Every
one
its festivals
institutions,at
PABIS
purest men."
its
able
been
have
to be
orators
Jacobins
of the
lamentations
the
of the
denunciations
the
ruled
Paris
of material
of rule
was
not
honest
true
no
down
all about
Republicans,too
was
no
longer
to him
was
end
very
of
"
dictatorship
;
men,
after
having
idol, and
new
whose
austerity
day, found
selves
them-
them.
by Royalism
for the
to
ists,
Royal-
flatterers of Barras
their
lips;
and
he
"
gentleman
cere,
sin-
not
seriously. It inspired,
The
merely with
form
uously
stren-
were
passed
from
paid
for he
"
democratic
hand
Republican
taken
What
few
determined
tinctured
much
for
room
mained
upright Gohier, re-
of the
manners
the
court
Only
got
longersuited the
estrangedfrom
The Directory,too
suit
the
ideal, had
its
the
to
for every
by publicopinion,which,
libertyfor
more
Royalist.
to found
attempt
no
the
selfishness,the love
principlesand
to their
but abandoned
bowed
the
sword.
Republicans,like
The
no
than
was
indifference
of the
that
to resist every
had
for
club
for
more
party
idea, but
an
The
listened
There
or
joys,scornful
except
no
one
other.
Republican legend
processions
preachers.
Emigres,and
the
not
without
streets
Patriotic
cared
Parisians
for
than
the
tedious
as
would
masquerades.
as
upon
regarded
were
majority of
vast
to
looked
213
VII.
Reason
through
the crowd.
excitingthe jestsof
began
of
goddess
walk
to
YEAR
THE
BUBING
to
hand
the
this
to
214
CITIZEN
More
"
than
Nero
ESS
BONAPABTE.
is my
viscount
Struttingbeneath
king of
This
which
At
*Tis
the airs of
importance,and
the
Paris
laughs low
risingsun
Agamemnon."
should
appear.
of
religious
feeling,
GSnie
invisible.
founded
Theophilanthropists,
religionimposed
creed.
short
a
of the Directors,
one
As
belief of the
virtue
God
here
by
the
is
of
means
Greek
had
pilferedthe
be the
R^veillere
Le-
burlesque.
mere
its adherents
have
said
Its
It
"
very
It
temples
Silence
'
was
were
and
spect
Re-
recommended
With
compilations
moralists, Theophilanthropy
of nations
wisdom
to
make
of it
libraryinstead of on a
Its Pater Noster,as proposed by one
of
tabernacle.
the members
of the sect, had expunged the phrase,
is omnipresent; also
who art in heaven, because God
the phrase,forgive us
our
trespasses as we forgive
moral
those who
It rested
to
was
lication
pub-
La
worshipped.'
handbills.
the
the
upon
suscitation
re-
worship of
:
inscription
Chinese
and
from
code.
was
The
The
compactest form.
by
distinguished
;
by
Goncourts
the
which
Christianisme
du
yet almost
signal,was
new
grime ;
not
was
of the
The
in his
every
of the
paux,
tone
festivities of the
where
cap
harangues in
straw
the idler
Putting on
The
his red
despot ;
have
equivalent
to
phrase,lead
us
on
trespassedagainstus,
saying
not
into
imitate
us;
on
temptation,
because
and
the
that is
finallythe
ground
that
PABIS
it
changes
God
into
YEAR
THE
DURING
devil.
Every
one
days
of the Foundation
those
were
feast
religion. The
Catholics,
"
could
"
ophilanthropists,
preservingwhatever
their
215
VII.
be
The-
they wanted
of the
of the
of
worship
new
Republic,of
the
all the
favor.
in
with
churches
of
churches
their
were
those of the
to
was
"
succumb
^sop
the
in
from
Director
six
and
till eleven
at
years
This
the
in the
after eleven
the
the
Mahomet,
"
four
ridicule.
to
to them
as
Reveillere-laid-peau,
to last but
could
Christianity
than
allotted
were
Theophilanthropists. But
La
ophilanthropist,
called
official
originalpossessors,
open
hunchbacked
the
secured
government,
morning
for
the
Catholic
The
common
same
of
acts
sect
The-
he
was
grotesque
of
imitation
[gang of sharpers]."
Certainlyit
reform
in morals
for
became
the
societythere
could
the
order
rose
of
speculationand
of
their
from
not
was
come
of
a
the
conceit.
new
other
purificationof
day.
that
sect
springswere
society.
From
manded
de-
Scandal
the
dregs of
of upstarts, the product
swarm
immorality,who made a display
grotesque
this
The
tasteless
luxury, their
Republic possessednumber-
216
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
less Turcarets.
These
upstarts tried
outdo
to
the old
no
Goncourts
to
bared
feet
and
'
shoulder.
with
was
about
been
covered
The
charms
and
grace
awkward
it was
legs
thongs
this
for
; a
"
the
toes."
For
abandoned
said,
"
of
figure,
juste lost
the
garment.
nearly two
the
mars
some
ioned.
old-fash-
as
well-made
means
old
set off
dishonors,'
wool
was
precisionby
of
the
Jewelled
should
on
folds
chemises
worn
which
chemise
folds
with
was
arms.
alone
worn
awkward
makes
the
chemise," it was
The
"
It
"
diamond
the
even
have
fell lower
robe
had
ually
grad-
the ankles,
The
time
and
it
as
"
the
to
fastened
were
The
which
arms
tried
they
the
and
benefit that
nakedness.
bosom, and
the
were
much
so
introduce
to
The
parody of antiquityknew
"By the restoration of Olympus," the
have said, "the
Impossiblesof the new
derived
France
upon
indecent.
waving
.
its
and
Women
thousand
years;
absurdlyold fashion."
than
fatal to the health
those
more
Nothing was
fashions which required the sun
of Greece, and were
by our French Aspasias through the fogs
yet worn
and
an
frost
towards
young
the
of
end
girls die
winters.
our
of
since
Dr.
1798, that
he
the fashion
Delessarts
had
of
seen
gauze
said,
more
dresses
PARIS
in, than
came
DURING
in the
fashions
THE
YEAR
fortyyears
destined
were
before.
last
to
217
VII.
Tlie extravagant
longer tlian
no
the
of
sect
"
"
The
charms
Without
Leave
have
decency
veil
dint of
By
Women
that
admired
are
speaking to
nothing to
put
resumed
everywhere
its
on
to-day,
the eye,
their
again, and
chemises
rights.
sneer
which
and
men
appeared
crowded
ridicule
with
the
things.
few
institutions, to
new
The
official world,
ambitious
gentlemen,
in
was
speculators,parasites,the
intriguers,
flatterers of every
form
of power.
If the
drawingwere
rooms
rare, theatres, subscriptionballs, public
The
Cafe
gardens, caf^s, tea-gardens,abounded.
Vdry,
the
Pavilion
and
the
of Hanover,
Frascati,were
filled them
families
of
the executioners.
Who
of
common
knows,
the
the
morrow!
enemy,
the
victims
Why
foes of
hate
fashionable,
did
for
them
not
vent
pre-
amusement.
did
not
mind
one
meeting
218
CITIZEN
cuted
each
People
in turn.
scribei-s and
of the old
Fructidor, the
it
as
dry guillotine,
were
of too
future.
The
events
the
opened
the Club
of
old
the
date
du
it
like
friends
the
blood
run
those
to
dread
Jacobins
had
not
the
not
renown
alarming,and
still
was
sounded
the
It had
Manege.
stains
Blood-
memory,
for him
of
survivore
libertyand
of
enemies
recent
la
Cayenne, the
the
Parisian's
de
And
stones.
called, made
was
clubs, but
orators' voices
the
transportationto
short
However
cold.
mark
some
Place
scaffold?
recallingthe
to
with
yet
througli the
pass
still seemed
18th
into amusement
without
Revolution
dance.
same
r"^gimeplunged
could
Who
alarm.
in the
proscribed,met
rest, with
like the
BONAPARTE.
ESS
the
funeral
knell.
of
approaching
the
Tlie
dictatorshipnever
against the
parties were
This
all,without
and
the
into
bulletins
became
than
more
in
became
it
of
every
ruins; only
that he
one
even
those
more
more
who
of
victories.
interested
of the
in
Seine.
persuade
was
the
protector
military side
the
speeches were
The
the
of
from
rarer.
As
vived.
sur-
public
the
Nile
Bonaparte
as
English cruisei-s
interesting,
difficult and
Of
eager
Parisian
shores
News
to
was
be left.
would
man
tired of
were
to
was
Everything
one.
Republican legend,only
Those
for
France,
saying a word,
saviour
crumble
bewitched
who
man,
made
Madame
XXIII.
DURING
JOSEPHINE
have
WE
Let
us
societyof
husband
formed
not
return
she
the fall,so
At
Plombieres
that
way,
for
she received
Egyptian expedition,from
of Cairo, and
that
she
she
meant
and
had
it had
At
to
give up
heard
that
to sail to
been
Paris
and
220
of
balcony
ladies of her
severelybruised
was
she
in
was
danger.
capture
from
the Pomone^
Egypt, had
an
of
Malta
the
to
Bonaparte'sletters
of
hope
captured by
all
she
She met
wooden
several
the
learned
the
Plombieres
to
three months.
days
some
by
went
there
and
there
part.
standing with
was
acquaintance,gave
by
VII.
friends,and
directlyto
alarming accident
which
taken
stayedthere
on
phice was
Toulon, but
sailed from
an
in the Year
relatives and
she
which
Josephine did
with
what
see
now
CAMPAIGN.
Paris
just glanced at
Bonaparte, her
Madame
EGYPTIAN
THE
joininghim
the
there.
ship in
returned
to
which
France,
of Toulon.
bought
the estate
of Malmaison,
near
the
DURING
villageof
EGYPTIAN
THE
Rueil.
It cost
francs, and
she
hundred
one
and
husband's
1799.
The
spent in Paris
house
in the
Her
No
back
from
possiblyhe
wife
Joseph
and
had
influence
all their
from
her
de
she
give
told
her
their sister-
brother.
Josephine's
untrue
is
public scandal,
no
into
her husband,
to
of their insinuations.
proof
than
son,
had
such
no
her
"
her
she confided
to
her
no
de
Ver-
Bonaparte,"
what
some-
even
sooner
seen
my
of thing-s
number
her.
Memoirs,
Madame
Madame
had
able
un-
who, far
naturallyexpansive,and
she
Avere
to defend
one
mother,
For
matters.
woman
describes,in
at Malmaison.
indiscreet; and
and
jealousof
reputationof
and
when
suspicionsabout
was
no
pry
and
she
made
little
come
six years
or
some
there
R(^musat
says, "was
mother
five
were
that
the
husband
visit which
she
would
Madame
gennes,
her
wholly happy
liimself
their
right to
tarnish
to
of
carefullystrengthened by
over
Besides, when
no
slie
summer
in
husband
gone
who
they could
historyhas
had
been
asserted
but
the
not
her
Avitli him
Lucien,
detractors
and
was
when
carried
which
in-law's
time
Egypt. He
he might be
he left that
his
this
knew
one
Here
money.
1798
her
de la Victoire.
rue
positionat
one.
of
she
sand
sixtythou-
paid
221
CAMPAIGN.
about
her
absent
short, about
Bonaparte
a
was
husband, her
world
looked
of
which
upon
as
brothers-in-law, in
we
knew
lost to
nothing.
France
his
222
CITIZENESS
wife
Does
this
not
took
attentions,which
some
people of
the
mother
neglected. My
was
paid her
we
BONAPARTE.
she
pity
forgot."
never
of the
languagebetraysome
the old
for the
Revolution, and
other
tried to turn
Corsican
insignificant
of
such
found
modest
figureat
fault with
with
Madame
The
habitues
prominent
the court
and
(?f Coblentz
glory,and
those
the
did
who,
of
not
XIY.
for her
cut
It
relations
Directory.
even
later,were
years
the
family
have
Louis
respect
parte
Bonaof
persons
of the
set
few
for
would
Bonaparte
Tallien
ridicule this
to
gentry who
Madame
which
scorn
her;
on
tary
milito
admirers, he had
he
What
fortunes
To
carry
This
France
But
he
If he
Madame
tlie
no
would
one
the
these
beautiful
his
doubts
be worth
worth
were
the grave,
to the clouds
is worth
what
hasteningto
Bonaparte,whose
fragments of
from
squandered
Bonaparte
warrior
thrown
are
are
many
satirical lines
"
talents
IIow
much
What
In
implacabledetractors.
was
in circulation
"
also
weight in gold.
this ;
still more
he costs us."
main
interest
lay in
the
and
caustic
Madame
de
Contades,
DURING
inseparably connected
is
name
says
the Duchess
who
had
far from
"
dared
had
set
it,
he
used
to say
when
Italy and
yet
"
for
not
not
was
would
one
have
unless she
she was,
hatred
Bonaparte
was
acknowledge
even
spoke of
mother
my
She
"
no
where
would
his
deserved
that
in
She
amusing.
most
France.
to
to
eccentric,"
was
of
recentlyreturned
melancholy,
her
of
affair
the
with
about
"Everything
Varennes.
Bouille, whose
de
MM.
sister of the
and
daughter
223
CAMPAIGN.
EGYPTIAN
THE
do
could
'I
Egypt;
she
as
with
much
"
glance.'
Let
us
'
Cerutti, now
side
That
sit down
de
marquis
so
little
mad
A
'
nice
!
her
Not
is she with
her
here, and
hard
rooms
that
before
she asked
when
place,upon
Ernestine
daughter.
at all !
Why
my
You
of the
she
was.
de Beau-
him
the
largerotunda.
have
had
beside
in the world
into
in the
next
her
'
be
of
one
Are
other
to Madame
to
the old
shove
hustled
they were
now
acquaintance.'
your
she
are
are
arm
to
would
Who
'
Damas
reply was
word,
end
daughter. She is
is a place at
Here
renew
sole
(at the
Viscountess
recognizethe
Damas's
de
whose
on
Bonaparte. Stop !
Madame
the
"
Madame
she describes
as
Laffitte).
rue
asked
ladies?'
! don't you
Madame
'
Th^lusson
Marquis d'Hautefort,
What
to
mansion
two
harnais
'
the
rue
those
old
of Abrantes
ball at
of the
you
room.
parte
Bona-
introduced
Marquis.'
yourself.
shouldn't
Ernestine
224
CITIZEN
make
her
nONAPARTE.
ESS
acquaintance,or
Mademoiselle
Hortense
de
that
make
do with
anything to
dishonor
who
to
d'Hautefort
such
the
Vendomiaire
18th
ence
differto
have
like people
I don't
women.
of
is
What
I don't want
The
liis shoulders
reply."
Many Royalistscould
the 13th
'
their misfortunes.'
shrugged
She
amiable.'
?
me
friend
Beauharnais
cliarmingpereon, gentleand
does
become
even
Marquis
and
made
no
forgiveBonaparte either
liis indirect participation
in
not
or
blamed
Fructidor, and
Josephine
for
her
positionthere
new
consoled
was
with
of the
the
Caulaincourt
(the
Vicenza)
her
saw
In
the
father
very
of
often
all that
was
"
and
drawing-room of
gave
Madame
of
her
in
Marquis
of
to
her
wise
de
the
vice.
ad-
Permon
Abrant^s)
societyof
of
Duke
future
the
fore-
more
court
The
future.
near
(mother of
young
that in her
antecedents, and
she met
Faubourg
de Noailles,de Montcalm,
de
Perigord,
de
de Montaigu, de
Montron, de Rastignac,de I'Aigle,
la
Feuillade,de Sainte-Aulaire.
her
to
charm.
of
Josephine appeared
elegance.
She
liked
The
life of Paris
balls,dinner-par-
EGYPTIAN
THE
DURING
ties,concerts, the
225
CAMPAIGN.
She
theatre, pleasure-parties.
was
of
the Countess
Caffarelli,
and
ossy,
and
the
rival
two
Madame
de
Regnault
Houdetot, Madame
Andre-
beauties, Madame
Tallien
though
Saint-Jean-d'Angdly.Al-
notion
and
the
des
Abbe
It
artists.
gladlyreceived
her
at
was
house,
that Legouve
Egyptian expedition,
and
Femmcs,
de
VEpee.
In her
de
Bernardin
meet
Bailly recited
that
the
at
ers
writtime
of
read liisMerite
his
drama, the
Saint-Pierre, Ducis,
Talma,
vague
famous
drawing-room there
used
to
Lemercier,
Volney, Andrieux,
d'Harleville, Baour-Lormian,
dre
Alexan-
Duval.
With
with
the
the
With
great tact
them, and
avoided
her
left for
Egypt
brothers
and
as
determined
influence
he had
sisters
younger
himself
an
concealed
to
assert
desired
to
his
see
Joseph,
of the
his
he
discontent
with
family,who
Napoleon.
comfortablysettled
than
the head
over
her
breach
open
of this vindictive
members
annoyed by
she
macy.
diplo-
were
all
Before
he
mother
in Paris.
and
though
Al-
alreadyregarded
Bonaparte family,and
authority.
Letitia,who
of
any
was
In
his
born
was
absence,
at
Lec^-
226
1750, and
in
horn
was
still preservedtraces
held
beauty, still
She
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
much
of
woman
and
character
iron
an
the
to
was
heart, tlioughwith
than
her
modern
frivolous
Napoleon
she
would
and
serious
tron
ma-
her
nate
inordi-
wife,
economical
more
had
not
Joseph,the
ing.
breed-
no
preferredfor
she
thought
happy.
son
oldest child,was
honest
an
gentle,
man,
sympathetic,well-bred, straightforward;his
courteous, his
were
was
born
1794,
in
rich
1768, and
of the
returned
to
to
Duphot,
married,
account
had
been
few
of
end
the
at
After
time.
that
of the
time
she
months
was
of
set
of
almost
bassador
Amhad
sister.
Napoleon
tragicdeath
day
he
his wife's
killed at Rome,
the
being
Rome,
at
him
of
possessor
Clary, whom
shortlybefore
After
the
Avas
Republic
At
marry.
who
eyes,
French
He
of Marseilles, Mademoiselle
that
D^sirde
affliction on
her
for
ners
man-
attractive.
was
Paris,bringingwith
Mademoiselle
wished
had
Clary,and
fortune
moderate
face
woman
young
Julie
Marie
at
Roman
have
and
made
son
kind
was
extravagance,
She
dress.
her
as
forgaveJosephine
never
her
stinacy,
ob-
herself,but
far
rather
was
woman,
more
point of
ways,
of
love
concerned;
impetuous
for
so
children.
an
the
to
lavish
Letitia,who
with
avarice
to
and
poor,
Napoleon's glory
Madame
will,firm
even
her
over
great energy,
economical
generous
control
of marvellous
had
deep
in
General
before
for their
mourning, she
riage.
marwas
228
CITIZENESS
Louis
APATITE.
BON
who
Bonaparte,
accompanied Napoleon
born
was
but
Egypt,
to
Paris
with
despatches. Although
prove
more
hostile
Lucien, before
the
friendlyrelations
thought of him as
with
or
The
born
youngest
1784
in
clever
and
tired
Madame
Of
Elisa,who
was
and
whom
his
in
The
1780, and
during
education
at
Germain, where
born
was
Madame
she
in
Beauharnais
imitate.
Rocher
married
with
rue
born
was
had
in
married
I'Eveque.
finishingher
was
school
companion
to
Verte, like
de la Ville
1782,
eldest,
1797
in
rue
campaign
Campan's
was
pleasure,
sisters,the
grande
Italian
the
of
agreeableand worthy
1777, and
in the
du
rue
Lucien.
Caroline, who
tlie
wife, an
in
Bacciochi, lived
General
he should
Napoleon's three
born
was
lively,amiable, intelligent,
was
lived
Letitia
woman.
Felix
lie
the model
Joseph
son
perhaps
turbulent, fond
rattle-pated,
of always having Eugene de
as
Josepli
maintained
who
sister-in-law,
but
s[)okenof
her
his
to
was
either
he
to
son-in-law.
of
later he
18tli Brumaire
had
returned
than
Josephine
to
1779,
in
at
Saint
de
of Hortense
Beauharnais.
All these
girlshad
Pauline,
especially
woman
which
in
she
Paris, and
was
their mother's
inherited
who
was
called the
was
the
present. With
belle
the
beauty,
handsomest
of every
ambition
ball at
of
DUBING
who
from
wring
surpriseas
as
was
of those
one
coquettes
cry of admiration
public a
and
Madame
the
they
as
soon
of
the most
world
She
battle-field.
the
on
229
CAMPAIGN.
EGYPTIAN
THE
Leclerc
in
appear
fond
moderately
was
sister-
of her
tiful,
in-law, Josephine,who, although older and less beauheld
Paris world.
only
not
It
not
decorous, not
and
easy
to say
her
for
Josephine
manifest
itself ; and
and
the
contestinginfluences to
under the Republic, even
power.
The
house
in it could
the
be discerned
the
these
and
displayedthat
which
be
seen
tween
be-
in courts,
appeared
Napoleon
attained
before
rue
de la Victoire
Tuileries
the
on
She
the
and
She
was
dress,
on
to
bitions,
am-
Empire.
sums
luxury
ish
to flour-
were
Josephine
vast
of
scale
of the
risinggerms
spent
combination
small
so
was,
want
owned
pay
debts.
Madame
de Rcmusat
insignificant
that at this period Madame
Bonaparte showed
most
large
began to
the
jealousies,
thriftless people.
distinguishes
costly jewels, and often lacked money
us
this
antagonism
the
intrigues,
family annoyances,
on
even
with
heart-burnings,
quarrels,which
full-grownunder the Consulate and
Besides
more
the Beauharnais
in the
speak, a palace of
to
remain
to
terms
affectionate,
Bonapartes
even
sister Pauline.
the
Bonaparte,she promised
possess
spiritthan
was
important positionin
more
As for Caroline
to
ambitious
much
the
tells
her,
230
CITIZEN
BONAPARTE.
ESS
"the
Malmaison,
prodigiousquantity of pearls,
which
she possessed; they
diamonds, and cameos
and
were
ah-eadyworthy to figurein the Thousand
and were
One Niijhts^
yet to be added to enormously.
at
Italy,gratefulafter
this abundance, and
touched
in
his
the
by
adds
Rdmusat
whose
place
mosaics,
But
the
of
walls
that
the
Rome."
of
owner
filled with
Avas
Josephinebore
troubles
money
beyond measure,
happy fortune that
Madame
these
her
troubles very
treasures,
and
that beset
for
she
awaited
did
her
had
about
politicsor
distress
not
doubts
no
her.
lightly
; and
of the
ate,
Amiable, affectionan
temper,
even
de
pictures,statues,
with gentlemanners,
insinuating,
to
was
often in want.
was
her
to
queror
displayedby the conthe pleasureof planting
himself
the
on
contributed
consideration
denying
bannei*s
ing
charm-
disposed
with
that careless
that
obliging,endowed
grace
one's
to win
Creoles, anxious
distinguishes
every
sympathy, pleasingpeople of every social position,
she also possessed most
fullythe rare qualitywhich
covers
fault
every
women,
kindliness.
"
originof
they said,
dreaded
"
and
is
especiallyattractive
can
Royalistsforgavethe Republi-
His
wife
is
so
Vend^miaire, when
kind."
People
who
Josephine.
We
in
the
had
to
Consulate, peo-
pie of
the
the
EGYPTIAN
THE
DURING
the old
Madame
regime visiting
Bonaparte on
without
ground floor,
going a story higher,where
Consul
First
lived.
took
Legitimistsociety,
Josephine, while
of the
the
who
and
to
had
the
been
main
author
She
and
the
the
relations
of her
I'eceived in
at
ments
entertain-
good
with
her
graces
Barras,
wedding,
cultivated
especially
of the
one
seeking
all the
to
secured
Her
Republicanladyof
Gohier, wife of
well
of the witnesses
one
be excellent.
of
went
Directory,and
official world.
be
to
care
231
CAMPAIGN.
austere
virtue,
"
She
Directors.
Madame
thought,
of her husband's
ambition
needed
to
be
allayed.
Bonaparte was the purest
According to Josephine,
and those who
of patriots,
dared to doubt this were
in spiteof her
This woman,
moved by malice or quyj.
frivolous,insignificant
appearance, intriguedlike an
experienceddiplomatist.She did not think herself
think
skilful,
they are,
yet she was ; just as many
and are not.
The greatest men
have
been
aided by
whether
Without
sephine,
Jothey knew it or not.
women,
it is probable that Napoleon would
never
have become
in vain that he told
Emperor. It was
her not to talk politics
to meddle
with affairs : she
or
was
stillthe most
his absence
was
to show
prepared the
plans,and
field
on
which
ing
dur-
he
XXIV.
BONAPARTE
IN
uttered
EGYPT.
profound
he said,
trutli when
TACITUS
Major
longinquo reverential''
'-^
thus
in
which
translated
for
became
Egypt
Pyramids
Distance
"
the
were
glory." Bonaparte
Parisians
the
pedestal of
epic hero
an
his
historybecame
of their
centuries
adds to
the
wonderful
what
names,
memories
The
glory.
of
called
his
and
famous
they
the
forty
prologue
career.
be
may
forth
the
the
Bible, the
Bonaparte, who
in
Roman
the
Delivery
himself
in his
Gospel,
wrapt
toga
Bonaparte,
"
all
thinking of
of
an
had
ardor,
adventures
Crusaders
as
the
as
from
same
the
said,
of
old
displaymore
French
the
It's
nation
imagi-
who
life, kept
thought
effect which
and
same
nobility.
audacity or
during
the democratic
Revolution,
courage,
Talma
ever
the
on
like
his
Alexander
produce
the
"
Bonaparte,
conjectured
expeditionwould
chivalry,sprung
same
Parisians
Athenians,
the
such
the
Jerusalem!
fame,
great drama
of the
acts
who
of
heroism
felt the
thirst for
Did
the
than
the
BONAPARTE
companions
there
Book
of
names
Heated
by
did this
so
so
the
which
fullyat
ease
and
the
of
collection
the
ishable
imper-
men
by perpetual victory,the
Nowhere
in
out
brilliant horizons
regretthis
land
of his
tormented
soul
books
behind.
from
filled
imagination
Later
he
Plutarch
and
Hebrew
de
His
and
and
Titanic
Mahometan
infinite
Remusat
for
His
ambition.
Koran.
unknown
Madame
told
the
Europe,
enough
not
was
to
was
planned
of
then
colossal
with
in
poetry, strayed
Asia, and
by
Bible
the
were
he had
dreams, where
him.
before
Even
feel
Egypt, which
of
as
is
gigantic plans.
carried
its vast
opened
fired
Pyramids, and
inscribed
brave
many
sun,
poet who
than
are
conceived
general
young
of the
greater
proclamations,in
his
233
EGYPT.
of the conqueror
Golden
IN
what
regions.
felt at
he
impossible.
free from
dreamed
them
"In
Egypt,"
bonds
the
strange dreams
into
the way
turban
my
on
composed by
concentrated
the
my
own
he
hindering civilization;I
and
action; I created
myself on
for my
of
to
Asia
head, and
In
me.
the
use
my
nothing seemed
said, "I found
myself
on
hand
English power
relations with
in
all
fancied
new
Alcoran,
should
have
worlds, exploring
two
histories,attacking
India, and
the old
enterprisesI
region of
put
elephant'sback, a
an
in my
to
way
religion; I
experiencesof
the
the
saw
Europe."
therebyrenewing
234
BONAPARTE,
CITIZENESS
What
varied
scenes
of
succession
! what
amazing pictures!
picturesquevisions
what
The
Nile,
the
entrance
singing,"Let
perilsof
of
Allah
great
the
Who
but
bread
stolen
by
the
the
son
It is the great
!"
us
Listen
Bonaparte
to
and
the
"
be
Allah
to
Maliomet
and
God,
the
with
dialogue between
Pyramid :
Bonaparte. Glory
God
of his enemies
has
the
from
saved
of the West?
men
in the
Mufti
has
longer wi'oth
no
Oriental
the
"
is
who
is he who
in the mosque
loving-kindnessof
the wrath
Who
Victory ?
Allah, who
is he
and
sea
the
sing
us
Arabs
the
wicked
is his
There
prophet.
turns
man
is
to
no
Tlie
dust in his
mouth.
"
The
Thou
Mufti,
hast
spoken
of
Mollahs.
^'-Bonaparte.I
of fire and
chariot
"-
art
The
Mvfti.
armed
with
drive it
Thou
one
of
belief that
other
times
he
was
not
founder
he
greatest captain,and
the
in
was
of
Egypt
pride fired
and
merely
of
at
was
the
same
If at certain
of distress.
grandeur and
prophet, the
heaven
power."
his ambition
moments
from
earth.
on
art
Bonaparte's condition
time
down
bring
can
him
conqueror
with
the
but also
a
demigod, at
religion,
brought back to the realityby
a
destiny.
His
soul
was
filled with
236
BONAPARTE,
CITIZENESS
the littlehouse
of
image
in the
de la Victoire,and
rue
the fair
ing,
Josephineappeared to him, always fascinat-
but
times
at
disturbing.He
her
imagined
at
the
of Barras,
Luxembourg, at the entertainments
surrounded
by young musicians and adorers whom
perhaps she encouragedby her smiles. This is what
is narrated by Bourrienne, who
was
present at an
of
outburst
Messudiah,
suspiciouswrath
always pale,had
quarter of
to
he
said
roughly.
devoted
I have
and
"
ought
to
to
have
!
in that way
out
me,
I'm
told
She I
You
ought to
have
this like
Is not
Junot.
fond
To
For
up,
If you
"
what
me
true
me,"
to
friend.
! You
to deceive
"
them
and
I will
me
wipe
popinjays!
Look
love !
thy
!
from
thy
I know
crown,
and
to heaven
hearted
'tisgone.
hell !
throne.
aspics'
tongues !
"
everything.
here,Tago ;
hollow
"
publicdivorce
Othello f
Shakspeare's
tyrannous hate
'tisof
is
went
told me."
and
leaguesaway
write !
"
All my
He
yes, divorce !
I must
"
told
have
of coxcombs
"
full exposure
would
tures
fea-
talkingwith
Josephine!
Confound
"
His
devoted
Josephine!
me.
six hundred
brood
the whole
of
his face,
usual.
After
not
are
you
from
Junot
an
Women
"
justlearned
Josephine
wild.
"You
Bourrienne.
up
were
his eye
uneasy,
for
Junot
the fountains
El-Arish.
near
Bonaparte was
were
before
"
BONAPARTE
Bonaparte'sface changed,his
O !
"
beware, my
It is the
The
voice broke.
lord,of jealousy;
green-eyedmonster, which
it feeds
meat
on
Who
! what
Junot
for
woman
herself.
tried to
lack
of
who
"
tells he
calm
the
on
the situation
over
o'er.
thus
blamed
defend
to
does not
prove
the
trials to
of his
"
accusing
lightly
unable
Junot
"
he
general;
and
absent
by adding domestic
feel
suspects,yet stronglyloves!
went
bliss,
his wronger
not
minutes
mock
lives in
generosityin
was
No," he
his devotion
you
damned
dotes,yet doubts
Bourrienne
doth
that cuckold
237
EGYPT.
IN
ness
uneasi-
companions
at
the
"
is not
true,
is
so
"
do I love that
much
divorce
guilty,a
I don't wish
...
idlers in Paris.
separate
If Josephine
us
forever.
of all the
laughing-stock
going to write to my brother
to be
must
woman
am
the
"A
once
letter may
anger
time
that
than
to his
be
for
of the moment
intercepted;it
dictated
enough
reflected."
availed himself
it;
that
as
for the
later, when
Bourrienne
in this
Junot, and
Bonaparte
case
to his
will
rienne
Bourto say
betray
the
divorce, there
shall
you
was
did
wiser
well
to
is
have
sellor
coun-
listen
fellow-soldier.
238
His
jealousywas
it with
de
Eugene
"
of
his
from
well
France, where
domestic
him
from
as
attempts
much
so
child,
Memoirs
great
which
he
made
were
prevailed
confidence
from
undermine
I
young,
that
some
received
to
was
causes
especially
among
news
cussed
dis-
he
his
inspired
spoke
to
of
me
his
he
and
down
could
his
my
situation
of
The
of
confidences
In
one.
that
whole
the
precociouswisdom,
me," he
incident
"
says,
:
to
was
General
an
her
in
as
for which
Bonaparte
and
it
; so
had
General, who
part of
She
never
went
out
receiving
least, a delicate
and
tact
grateful.
step-fatherand
by
been
was
the
following
paying
ran
rumor
became
duty
to
without
very
accompany
an
out
woman,
positionas
my
tions
atten-
drove
clever
the
once
that
my
permitted."
sometimes
so
"
my
nearly broken
barouche.
his mistress
Avas
far
could,
Bonaparte was
showed
he
matter
he
his
the
is, at
sort
whom
of seventeen
youth
to
tried to soften
bad-looking. At
not
Since
Avell
as
harmony existingbetween
The
and
only one
freely. I
him
youth and
the
was
himself
I consoled
my
with
tent.
unbosom
anger;
she
discontent
happiness. Though
with
to have
began
the
in his
says
certain
generals,as
"
step-son,Josephine's own
Beauharnais, who
annoyance,
as
so
commander-in-chief
The
in
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
that
camp
aide-de-
painful.
the
aide-de-camp,
alreadyhad
I had
humiliated
so
ask for
that I called
his
between
interview
his drives
treated
never
Of
from
him
four
Egypt,
to
and
Lavalette
was
bands
reconnoitre
the
Eugene
always
was
he
of
Bonaparte
man,
remember
seek
danger;
that
in
must
him
or
with
business
be
satisfied
the
commander-in-chief
Bonaparte
with
sent
third.
had
only two
and
Lavalette.
forward,
and
Eugene
should
I don't
want
said
not
to
If there
the
him
"
to
Mamelukes,
One
beckoned
to
hear
send
him
:
"
this
in
to
the
low
ness,
eager-
Young
"
must
we
with
rest
"
day,
his usual
never
doing
our
God
to
"
of
Saint
an
officer with
he
go, and
Eugene
and
desert
Jean
killed.
was
also killed
was
had
order
aides with
He
sent
and
Merlin
sound.
exposed position;
another, who
The
Julien,
back, saying,
our
took
wounded,
were
called
we
of it."
and
Arabs
hasteningforward
was
; two
ride into
to
"
account
"
alone
lady,and
Bonaparte
Beauharnais
dangerous duty,
when
de
Eugene
tinued
discon-
he
perished there,
Guibert
Sulkowski, Croisier,and
Duroc
on
the
was
that
with
less well
to
lively
me
that moment
barouche
any
me
somewhat
eight aides-de-campwhom
the
with
in
Berthier
and
step-fatlier
my
I felt
but
General
on
regiment.
step ; but
result of this
he
this barouche
to follow
place in
2B9
EGYPT.
IN
BONAPARTE
and
so
Bonaparte
de Beauharnais
latter
to
voice,
so
come
that
boy, and
have
him
killed
240
CITIZEN
SO
You
know
what
Another
of shell
he
struck
days he
asked
Jean
time
leave to
other
of time
great
and
too
far ; I must
the
treasury,the
Syria curses,
thousand
Bourrienne,
try
of
; I
shall
to
me
Damascus
me
This
"
but
calls
things have
fierceness all
the
Druses
Then
found
shall
overthrow
and
new
and
posterity,
great one
then
but
dream.
obstinacylashed
purpose
that
crossed,his
town, and
stood
All
a
a
that
fury.
It
was
redoubt, with
final effort.
had
artillery,
to raise
His
the
by
this
Bonaparte's
commanded
destitute of
on
Paris
to
of Austria."
in vain
was
itself into
he
eye
It
and
placefor
my
shall return
masses.
Empire,
I shall make
perhaps I
nounce
an-
pashas,and
of these
Turkish
the
are
I shall
army
the head
Constantinopleat
hundred
three
me
gone
succeeds,
If it
arm
enlarge my
good deal
take
to
wretched
me
Djezzar,whose
will enable
of nineteen
last assault.
one
arms
men.
waitingfor
men
many
gene
grief.Eu-
post,in order
has cost
''
of
Bonaparte
cry of
the ruins
the end
his
assaults,which
hole,"he said
in the head:
down.
at
resume
me.
d'Acre, a piece
under
knocked
and
to
"
killed,and uttered
was
part in the
in
long
him
de Beauharnais
only wounded,
was
Go
he
entrusted
before Saint
Eugene
lay for
which
thought
has
life is.
day, also
fell,and
wall
mother
his
young;
BONAPARTE.
ESS
to
no
arms
of the
army,
ing
be-
siege and
BONAPARTE
Minor, the
of Asia
attack
France
in
commodore
failure,and
May
the
of the
Saint
Jean
made
me
turn
re-
many
Ger-
and
of the
Emperor
vexation
Smith
What
17, 1799:
that
desert
the
triumphal
English
d'Acre, he
miss
managed
tune."
for-
my
conceal
to
to
colors !
of
and
skilfullyhe
how
conquest
Constantinople,the
to be
defended
Sidney
the
to
of the Danube
speaking with
"That
brilliant
rear,
not
was
end
an
into
the banks
by
who
But
his
in the
Bonaparte
East, and
was
entrance
Europe
on
to
said:
There
Egypt.
to
return
241
EGYPT.
IN
his
in
cleverness
Africa
crossed
have
"Soldiers, you
separates
tion
proclama-
from
Asia
more
The
which
was
swiftlythan an Arab army.
army
marching to invade Egypt is destroyed; you have
captured its general,its wagons, its supply of water,
You
taken
have
its camels.
possession of all the
strong places
scattered
of
and
fields of Mount
the
You
oases.
Tabor
the
have
swarms
had
...
palace; but, at
of Acre
brave
men
is not
this season,
worth
whom
In
the
I should
requiredfor
now
the
the
men
the
in
defended
that
more
the
loss of
have
which
were
and
took
had
to
da3^s;the
lose there
of
are
important operations."
few
the
one
of
dred
hun-
Jean
242
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
d'Acre
like
ancient
an
The
and
the
march
from
then
soldiers
The
of the
of Coubld, to
the
see
Kebir, the
captured
Sultan
of
future
slave
Emperor.
and
slaves, white
dromedaries
filled with
Muftis
the
incense
and
Ulemas
of Mount
hero
Other
entered
Sesostris,
who
with
held
for
speed, scent-boxes
perfumes.
Preceded
of Gama
of
by
el
the
Azhar,
majesty of
all the
the Gate
by
offered
costly rings,
arms,
their
Tabor, with
his
of the
also
were
of the mosque
Cairo
adorned
slave
presents
el
Prophet, offered
saddle
black, superb
and
Sheik
The
of tlie
called
Arabs
was
renowned
the
opened
the
Fire.
magnificenthorse, with a
gold and pearls,and the young
This
triumph.
conquering
enemy
whom
man
bridle.
his
city
descendant
Bekri, a revered
of
this
magnificence,its music,
The
came
of
day
that
applause.
leadingmen
him
resembled
the Turks.
Sultan
the
its Oriental
with
re-entered
Bonaparte
general on
procession
Pharaoh,
the
Cairo.
from
Victories,Bab
el Nasr.
A
few
assembled
days
at
later the
Turkish
Smith's
Aboukir.
The
thousand.
Turks
by Sidney
anchored
of
Bonaparte marched
to meet
out
had
which
army,
at
teen
eighthem,
are
as
"
But
the hour
was
draw-
244
CITIZENESS
the
Fortune.
and
Pharillon
It
that he
Bourrienne, and
22.
rash and
one
drew
to
been
of
me
to
your
if
romance
this
As
"
down
so
the
to
preparationsfor
our
On
somewhat
he
the
return,
my
his
anxiously,but
to
I told
when
plan
carry
successful
France.
to
us
saying, Eugene,
'
once,
mother.'
night,and
my
his
saw
I should
joy
that very
shared
describes
sent
was
night of
suspect
thus
satisfaction
this at
see
the
me
Beauharnais,
even
bit of
observed.
frigateswere
two
going
give
like
panions,
com-
him
the French
informed
are
not
few
Nile
two
seen
be satisfied,
since
these
did
in the
"
ascertain
lit with
soon
that I had
to
reads
me
interrogated
was
carry
with
others,
two
Alexandria, I
near
or
Sidney Smith
departure,which
General
of the
arm
embark
to
was
the
unlikelya project.
Eugene, in his Memoirs,
Prince
we
between
was
"
August
BONAPARTE.
These
have
words
expected.
I noticed
awkwardness
that
and
to
for
He
you
did
not
We
barked
em-
my
sadness.
panions
com-
The
brave
departure,regret at leaving
companions, the fear of being captured by
the
dead
calm
just embarked.
proposed that
delayed
the
Gantheaume
he return
to
seeing France,
ever
of
safe
journey.
"
No," he answered
BONAPARTE
the
admiral.
The
day,
next
but
Bonaparte,
out
to
"
sea,
at
Don't
August
nine
bidding
sure
be
that
23,
in
the
Egypt
fortune
uneasy
at
245
EGYPT.
IN
we
sunris'e,
morning
an
would
the
eternal
not
shall
the
get
calm
wind
tinued,
con-
rose,
farewell,
betray
off."
and
put
him.
XXV.
THE
llETURN
Egyptian
THEFrance,
but
It gave
him
Ca3sar, and
sink
of
Cairo
he
had
Napoleon
successes
prominent,
out
of
serious
his
with
taken
Saint
Jean
of
naval
defeat
land
the
brilliant
out
French
points of
of
Bonaparte
it
staked
his army.
246
Ahoukir
same
If he
had
from
if
as
the
by winning
Egypt
only
the
is
more
thought
to
reallyonly ephemeral.
been
have
all their
feats
de-
authorities
name.
which
everything
cruisers, he would
public, and
was
giftof
effaced
He
noticed
success
the
distinction
expedition,and
the
sight in
decisive,though
home
at
Alexander,
the
d'Acre.
the
most
returned
made
of
who
lettinghis
much
as
victory called by
; the
and
he
check, he
glory,and
men
with
to
useful.
most
was
also had
When
sight.
him
receive
memory
the
little service
the
Mahomet.
Syria,after
be
it
Napoleon
to
popular imagination;
his
keeping
sunk
of
was
equality with
an
on
the
impress
remote
campaign
EGYPT.
placed
on
FKOM
on
one
throw
captured by
been
by
the
severely blamed
accusations
would
ing
leav-
lish
Engby
perhaps
crushed
have
If
poet'sphrase.
glory,they
than
chance
to
great
imperialeagle,to
men
and
themselves
about
their
the
in the egg
would
uated
be infat-
cease
would
honestly analyze
skill; that
to
the
use
would
that
see
247
EGYPT.
FROM
BETURN
THE
often
they
they
to
owe
more
when
won
they
the campaign
conceptions,
finest,but
the
it
was
expedition,according to
his
yet
the throne.
men
When
the
real foundation.
from
vanish
sky
fact
gamblers who
the
their
part, we
of which
have
rashness
and
risks.
invaders
were
able
return
done
the
to
are
to
pretended stars
These
them,
this sort
men
are
was
arrive
to
in
with
atone
for
of
fatalism,
Egyptian campaign
It
no
the
little faith in
whole
lias
out
in their star,
fatalism
This
!
politics
impress
The
have
of
the inventors
by
confidence
succeed,
turned
have
of these
many
excuse
audacity and
had
was
to
stepping-stone
which
result.
How
the
Egyptian
greatest admirers,
proved
blunders
doubted
never
His
of strong character
and
our
it
failure.
less
doubt-
was
only by
there
was
a
made
miracle
without
English fleet,againstwhich
up
that
of
the
tered
being scat-
they could
Bonaparte's
248
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTE.
And
narrowly escapedcapture.
frigatesand
the English
crafts
in
fleet?
againstthe
only chance
finest
layin
throughout
drove
hours, and
active
they were
would
would
have
have
uninhabited
hug
in
the
vessels to
of
case
handful
of
shore
and
men
Egypt,
Oran, and
the wind
he
by
the
francs,which
from
hauled
over-
less
power-
wind
no
was
Admiral
in order
the
that
he
to
might tarry
then
with
of seventeen
sole
ence.
pres-
Gantheaume
sum
treasure
his
make
northwest
the
English,and
petty
would
leagues from
suspectedtheir
one
the
first
at
left of Alexandria, in
the
ordered
attack
an
been
The
twenty-four days
coast, where
African
been
Bonaparte's
English ships,and
Mediterranean.
Bonaparte
Venetian
meeting the
the Egyptian coast, and, indeed^
detained
Avere
against
the world.
shipsin
his two
done
old-fashioned
not
on
the
four
the
four
The
sailers that
few
would
despatch-boatshave
two
slow
were
what
he
to
way
sand
thou-
brought
Tunis
or
there
and
they
they
were
availed
themselves
of
between
Cape
running
September 19,
it.
Bon
and
a
Sicily,
them
pushing
continued
;
on.
on
later,it would
The
four
their way,
have
ships
and
been
thus
after
too
dark
favored
seeing in
to risk
by
fate
the dark-
lightsof
the
ness
sightat
sunrise
brought
them
off
morning.
of
out
favorable
wind
Ajaccio.
possessionof
still in
did
Bonaparte
249
EGYPT.
an
the next
Corsica
Was
FROM
EETUBN
THE
know
not
if he
and
the
French?
land
to
were
hesitated,and
of
fishing-smack and
despatch-boatshailed
the
ascertained
The
fishermen
free
or
land
At
affairs.
of
harbor
At
in
to
him
the
had
put forth
In
black, who
in
the
sea
the famous
boats
stretched
was
out
Without
relaxed
was
house
in
in wEich
his
he
case,
was
sovereign,he
of the
out
and
of
hastened
the
and
he
with
town.
soldiers,
to
boats
the
that
Corsican.
old
an
her
stopping
of
Bonaparte was
people
covered
w^as
cided
de-
state
peasants hastened
"
nurse.
that
cannon,
rapturouslyexclaiming,
man,
his
to
and
the
out
firingof
to meet
of these
one
with
was
Bonaparte
sailed
ship
France.
to
Provence
so
find
it heard
news
was
the
edge ;
and
a
when
citizens, workmen,
water's
Austrians,
moment
Ajaccio;
there
once
the
belonged
whether
say
Corsica
that
carry
still
not
by
it saluted
near,
back
could
invaded
to
so
Corsica
that
one
"
!
figiio
Caro
administered
great
It
was
quarantine,which
landed
born; and
the
to
arms
for
dressed
woman,
and
as
visited
if he
were
justiceand
the
ready
al-
freed
prisoners.
For
For
the
nine
few
Corsica,in
next
continual
prevailed.
to
lingerin
English should
get
250
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTE.
of his presence.
wind
fair, and
was
he
At
last,October
decided
to
obstacle
set
sail for
; so
7, the wind
the
they heaved
towed
being
of
coast
to
by
sea
boatful of
sturdy rowers.
Bonaparte must have
The
he
had
port, the
his
danger grew.
In a few hours, in a few minutes, he might be in the
of the English; everything depended on
the
hands
nearer
Once
wind.
future
by
the
the
if he
"
other
or
in
fail to
Egypt
what
English,
adventure
who
be
was
On
be
to
reach
mar
his
it,
if after
be
captured
"
he should
would
omnipotence ;
to
more
soil,nothing could
should
his army
his wild
about
French
on
but
abandoning
to
came
not
his
one
side ridicule,on
branded
enemies
as
say
turer,
adven-
an
This hardy
a hero.
as
glorified
forever playing at high stakes
bler,
gamwith
so
companions
and
few
far had
could
see
the
of
mountains
congratulatingthemselves on
hours, when
suddenly a lookout
were
aloft
from
by the
enemy's ships;
lit up
to
ron
and
saw
jump
to
many
and
into
return
they
all
that
the boat
to
landing in
called
down
Evidently they
sunset.
declared
Gantheaume
was
he
that
Provence,
were
the
that
was
Ajaccio;
but
towing
he
the Mui-
quickly an-
252
CITIZENESS
his intention
to
the
was
broke
a
dense
the
on
out
have
The
the
to
the
white
plague
horse
live
than
At
Lyons
under
his
he
and
"
No
We
had
No
quarantine
has
rather
to
come
fend
de-
ashore, and
then
At
at
with
spent
at
hotly,that
the
applause broke
he
moment
indescribable
went
he
"
huge
to the
shouted
was
thusiasm.
en-
crowd
him
to
theatre,
sit in
the excited
forced
appeared
midnight he
At
out.
Avignon,
Bonaparte,Bonaparte !
so
pushed
callingupon
evening he
of the
Aix,
day.
windows,
In the
audience, and
:
"
"
was.
hours, and
received
was
himself
he
went
long triumph.
Valence, he
himself.
four
only
enjoyingone
"
hero who
the
into
stayed there
front.
with
was
He
show
excitement
Bonaparte
the Austrian
Bonaparte
entered
gathered
sooner
covered
soon
"
you
and
and
was
no
protector,for
our
wildest
frigateon which
! they shouted.
Provence."
at
the
"
quarantine for
on,
than
shore, which
throng.
but
quarantine;
sailed
for
into
go
officer seen,
out
their
BONAPARTE.
show
to
the
started
wildest
again,
and
instead of
of his
been
landing.
received
Brune's
Within
of Mass^na's
in Holland
of
fortnightinformation
victoryin Switzerland
Bonaparte'sat Aboukir,
had
;
of
and
were
he
which
in every
rung
the road.
good news
interruptedby
the
cries and
Council
the
the
of the
news
was
returning,there
who
were
when
cheers
President
of
news
than
"Mr.
added, turning a
hate
calumny,
her
is
It
was
look
Avhen
pleasedand gratefulwhen
treated
meet
her
husband
unite
must
to
I shall go
let any
first.
Bonaparte
intimate
not
of
Besides,"
to
both
been
She
tions
inten-
any
account
him
see
me,
with
you
any
been
have
sephine
Jo-
surprise
more
company.
on
have
most
the
landed.
host
coming
bad
not
she
my
patriots
I must
brothers,who
fear
Pyramids
pleasure.
had
liberty. But
to
his
not
with
caused
of the
husband
Bonaparte
unfavorable
to meet
President.
be afraid that
Bonaparte,
elected
Avas
were
patrioticsongs.
Republicans and
were
that her
pleasure.
plays
the
the
heard
the
and
along
announced
Ancients, Lucien
themselves
diningat
lit
were
the actors
came
beside
villagethrough
stage,and
and
town
night bonfires
from
The
joy universal.
the
the
In
At
passed.
253
EGYPT.
FROM
RETURN
THE
friend
he
hears
that
and
he
hears
how
you
will
be
well
here
Thus
during his absence."
left Paris to
reassuringherself,Josephine at once
;
but
since
through Burgundy,
and
he
Bourbonnais, she
he
was
back
failed to meet
in Paris first.
took
she
the
him
one
on
the
through
the way,
road
the
and
XXVI.
THE
OF
MEETING
AND
BONAPARTE
arrived
BONAPARTE
Vend^miaire,
He
1799).
went
at
Year
Victoire, and
la
from
find
she
But
Italy.
be
would
band?
did
Was
His
dread
from
zeal for
that
filled
enraged
been
said
lius-
about
full of
was
hostile to
from
moralitythan
him
she
Was
extremely
were
not
sure
wife ?
had
that
felt
de
return
would
he
her
meet
to
rue
his
house
his
was
in the
envy
Bonaparte,
anger.
old
him
supreme
power
his
again.
he
was
who
by
For
deeply
distressed
separation and
divorce.
was
of
think
to
love, rekindled
tortured
only of
empty
brothers, who
already,began
His
she
he
of
(October 16,
after
that
now
morning
Bonaparte's suspiciousheart
Josephine,less
of her
Where
everything
true?
wrath.
The
there.
bitterness.
guilty,and
and
knew
he
then
house
did
he
as
Josephine there,whereas
with
her
alone,
the
VIII.
his
to
once
Paris
in
the 24th
JOSEPHINE.
his
about
and
annoyance
moment,
to
he
grasp,
fury,
forgot the
and
thought
conjugal infelicity.
Josephine,too,
her husband
to
254
was
uneasy.
anticipatethe
She
had
accusations
tried to meet
that
would
BONAPARTE
be made
see
had
had
said to herself:
him, and
been
not
when
arrived
he
he have
there
thought
with
Was
she to
her?
Was
had
found
in the
she to meet
loving and
black, and
my
on
or
the
It
of
anguish.
of
uneasiness, uncertain
Poor
leadingto
He,
within
opened
for
wept.
The
She
her.
She
prayed
wore
on
room,
did
not
not
cease.
and
she
locked.
house
lose all
Are
hope
not
Were
not
those
could
not
believe
tears
tears
that
not
the
sort
her
to
but,
be
able
it
was
again
vain.
knees
of
sobs.
night
the forbidden
paradiselost.
and
last
by
be
and
her
The
threshold
dried
her
to
called, and
her
on
in
find
to
the little
filled with
of
angry,
joy and
was
never
woman's
after
bo
bolts, answered
entreaties
a
happen
to
knocked;
the
fell
was
at
was
She
room,
would
implored,but
which
Paris.
again, and
she
remained
been
ascended
She
knocked
Then
must
had
full of
she
husband's
door
he
uncertainty,full
was
whether
the
whole
What
He
she
and
Bonaparte
cruel
protected by
that
going
was
her
the way
But
judge'sface confronting
Bonaparte of other days,
was
woman
arms."
reached
affectionate, or
terrible ?
be the first
me
rooms
What
lover's
"Let
Josephine
of her
tlie power
solitude.
empty
anxiety.
see
of
him
meet
when
days
two
trembled
so
able to
255
JOSEPHINE.
Confident
againsther.
beauty,she
to
AND
tears
She
did
argument?
kisses?
She
256
CITIZENESS
Bonaparte might
her
see
he
face, but
When
smile.
BONAPARTE.
she
would
in
Yet
that at
long to
wait ;
moment
she
one
women
daughter."
and
She
Hortense
beg of
added
mother.
whose
lose him
father
perishedon
whom
Providence
Bonaparte
ime
As
severe
trembled.
I shall
answered
And
abandon
not
we,
uttered
he
with
also
"
he
Eugene
His
said,
mother's
eral,"
"No, Gen-
me."
; "I
man
Our
reproaches,and
you
the young
to
we
his door.
open
to
orphans,
poor
Turning
keep
Eugene
scaffold,shall
to
and
son
your
their entreaties
the
shall not
misdeeds;
at last consented
still
was
Josephine
"
you.
of her
one
advice.
Do
"
to
for
this wise
Josephine's.
...
ible
inflex-
so
"Send
and
came,
tearful
reason.
it occurred
followed
not
deepest despair,
Bonapartewas
to
her,
to
say
the
with
her
resist
not
seemed
he could
bid
farewell
you
on
the
brightwith
joy, let
arguments.
At
seven
in
the
Lucien, who
Lucien
entered
wife reconciled
himself
The
he
brought
the room,
and
convinced
reconciliation
morning
had
be
the
sent
lyingin
the
his
brother
charges,and
he found
same
the
phine's
Jose-
complete.
was
for
by
husband
bed.
when
and
BONAPABTE
to
Csesar
wisely in
his wife
of
of that
to
sort
been,
The
hero
had
or
of the
he
thus
of
himself
to
a
husband
husband's
world.
political
about
was
As
soon
to the
the coup
of the
my
societyand
dear
skill,her
The
Directory.
of the
with
conscious
hesitate to leave my
was
Monge,
Directory.
"
"
army
to
come
The
to share
How
to
very
"
friend
alarming, that
so
first day
very
President,"said Monge,
Egypt
part
d'etat of Brumaire.
"
in
the
everything,she
consummate
"I too am
Republictriumphant !
embarrassment.
Bonaparte, in some
received
ther
to fur-
more
bright,tactful,
was
all about
Luxembourg
his
the recriminations
he arrived,Bonaparte became
as
of the distrust
he went
turned
once
Parisian
with
Knowing
preparing for
was
She
plans.
play,with
to
terested
disin-
wholly
not
than
matters
Josephine
familiar
perfectly
and
thing possible
deceived.
her
the
to
husband.
her
to
tions
ques-
Bonaparte
more
serious
end
an
fashionable
Citizeness
whether
Pyramids
put
picions
Directory,sus-
more
been, faithful
not
accusations
attention
the
fatal to
not
were
consider, than
had
when
societyunder
and
woman,
thus
ing
suspected. Besides,accord-
be
might
to the tenets
in
257
JOSEPHINE.
tion
making a reconciliabeen
have
with
his wife.
A separationwould
choice bit of scandal
for the ill-disposed
Royalists
not
turn
to their profit. Bonaparte was
yet a
did
Bonaparte
AND
of
glad
find
the
glad,"said
news
we
I did
not
its
perils."
258
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
General," answered
"
made
have
we
in
time
Goliier, they
"
celebrate
to
the
of his
be
sword,
drawn
of its
your
another
"
revives
Gohier
be
Republic !
live the
Long
received."
fraternal
find
to
who
won
had
it
done ?
"
party
decided
endure
the
shouts
of
with
nor
to
had
He
in
the
detests
him."
was
make
to
the
ceived
re-
In
the
his
he had
an
felt that
more
to
has
needed
he
Moreau,
described
dinner
any
fact, during
the
the
their
Bonaparte,
Josephine
Sieyesis
than
The
victories,might be his
When
"
of him.
Gohier
zealous
instinctive
saw
have
drawing-room, "What
Gohier
was
of the Directors,
one
use
invited
Sieyes.
Where
near.
of the moderate
abb^
celebrityby
she asked
Bonaparte
heart
given
Among
reflection he
on
Josephine, and
last-named
General,
'"
Bonaparte ought
neither
the side
on
interview.
shall
Republic
terminated
was
this former
Sieyes. For
repulsion;but
"
he
that
support?
of the moderate
him, and
'
the
is with
revolutionists,or
head
Ven-
spiritof brotherlylove.
moment
Bonaparte
25th
touching the
replied:
It
ceremony
embrace, but
in
The
The
your
Frenchman's
in every
of
this sword
of
defence
in
except
government."
presence
that
swear
just
"
and
come
day, the
next
never
have
glorious victories
companions-in-arms." The
handle
great,but
You
issue.
happy
were
man
one.
whole
He
the
you'
whom
can't
dinner,
260
straininghimself.
Barras
did,and spoke
he
shattered
of his
General
left Barras's
from
the
ready
Meanwhile
he
for
to
return
the
it.
damp
he
into
he
than
for
and
men
epaulettes,he
destined
to
the
wore
become
his
Gohier,
austere
besides,deceived
lawless
a
every
of the Year
with
III.
as
giving
dressed
He
more
full uniform
the
or
which
overcoat
part of such
Republican, he
gratified
without
was
He
of
eyes
was
affected
versation
literarycon-
or
The
Institute.
was
the
anxious
less he
by Josephine,refused
agreed
crafty than
things,that
dry climate
of the
out
scientific
colleaguesof
plans on
to
mean
everything
subjectof legend.
who
patriotand
one
of
gray
Cincinnatus
box.
close
Instead
usual.
Sieyes.
have
more
theatre, it
a
of
those
became
posed
took
going
Brumaire.
tired of
to the
ment.
govern-
before
alone, that
the
If he went
simply
any
and
agreed to
was
he
person,
of the
notice, and
to
head
rage,
you
20th
was
unknown
one
to
said that
went
Bonaparte
ill and
was
it
or
said he
He
ever.
in
with
march," he said,and
the
the
on
rooms
you, and
wholly
at
Luxembourg,
It's with
that
game
of rest, and
Hedouville, put
was
same
unselfishness,his fatigue,his
have
Bonaparte
He
played the
resign and
must
"
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
him
the
to
a
man.
self
Him-
imagined
regarding the
holy ark.
believe in
All
that
tion
Constituthis time
BONAPABTE
he
its
his
weaving
was
plan for
AND
mainstay,and
all,but
he said afterwards
not
at
uneasy
guard, and
skill.
carrying
in
gave
what
from
the
of his
one
because
hour
The
displayedmore
promised him the
one
that
dog
when
not
my
plans.
I knew
traps,and
on
my
time
was
made
1792,
the
in France
head
that did
success."
to
in the ninth
of his paper
number
which
of
genius.
that I demand
Richelieu
and
territory
be made
It is the absolute
force
nation
silence beneath
to create
empire.
an
I invoke
he be
only
France
"
of a
inflexibility
man
be
had
he
steps. Every
I became
party
only
aloof
kept
it
ceived
re-
of the
the
but I
one,
every
my
every
Avas
to
agents
was
realized
in
advice
populace
not
was
long-winded constitution;
further
State,there
of the
talking
Directorywas
extremely on my
Siey^s,and
my
make
in
As
The
"
life have
would
into my
ran
of
perhaps
de Rdmusat,
:
as
parte
Bona-
of them.
one
any
I gave
w^ould
cui'iosity
to
career
my
the Abb^
out
of them,
one
return;
my
the leaders
Bourbons
his
mistaken.
was
to Madame
never
saw
of
use
periodof
this
about
party
of service
to be
not
ing
form-
were
every
make
to
meant
if he
political
plans as
battle.
261
JOSEPHINE.
and
can
in
relentless
262
in
unhappy
my
demand
of
to
This
framed
the
issue
by
an
of
haughty
make
compels
despotism
on
to
was
the
admired
respect
and
reaction
to
since
of
knows
who
brilliant
and
bless
spirit
1795
powers
their
The
was
cruel
how,
of
respected,
appear.
aid
absolute.
utterly
usurper
and
of
union
master,
and
rule,
the
to
come
the
mean
people
about
to
imperious
magnanimous
means
of
jealous
capacity,
call
country,
hands
the
he
When
master.
of
BONAPARTE.
CITTZENESS
by
well,
Cromwhom
subjection."
long
finished.
plot
XXVII.
PROLOGUE
THE
Joseph, at
that
take
they should
ride
and
to
distance
from
sprang
senseless:
breathe
a
few
of
his
pulse
thought
minutes
bones
broken,
horse.
"Oh,
"
what
"
That
was
twelve
the
two
men
him
dead.
no
scratch, no
It
little stone
shattering." It
have
changed
the
me
on
was
Regnault
bruise, and
!"
which
true
not
false alarm.
mounted
his
and
did
himself, with
General," exclaimed
gave
in the
violence
feet.
was
to
came
rocks,
him, findinghim
to
up
the
imperceptible; he
was
near
The
ran
Bonaparte
frightyou
a
that
some
fifteen
or
and
his horse
he
him
hidden
with
the
to
over
stone
general off
the
threw
on
free discussion
d'Ang^ly, of
Jean
together. As
for
anxious
were
of his brother
preparing,he proposed
were
parte
Bona-
Brumaire,
estate
Being
Regnault de Saint
with
In
18th
the
Mortefontaine.
BRUMAIRE.
18TH
to be at the
happened
events
THE
days before
FEW
OF
no
his
companion,
Bonaparte said,
all
our
that
plans came
pebble might
conspiracy was
organized,and
the end
was
ap-
264
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
preaching. Bonaparte,who
soldier,prepared it with
as
was
and
With
wiliness.
d'etat which
coup
an
had
consented
not
and
Who
the
will
haunted
publicbegan
did
help us
out
of
to
same
evoke
the red
of the middle
To
to be
and
in terror
the end
has
entreated
to
he
j)lied,
seemed
The
iVetat
coup
found
take
to
of
allies and
were
ries
memo-
the blood
worse
some
be
18th
Brumaire
glory. Every
one
thingsyet,
of
"
prevent the
in
was
he
his wife.
to call up
"
could
he
and
always made
the guillotine,.
and
proscriptions,
Bonaparte
Italy.
cold.
run
of fear and
union
how
do
spectre which
classes
Gohier
to
plained,
com-
won't
from
return
mire '?
he understood
Edgar Quinet
anxious
was
He
of the Terror, to
but
For
officers
"
say,
"
the
time
was
to
desire.
The
after his
At
As
heart's
them.
see
their attentions
to
pretendingaversion
his
untiring in
the
skill he anticipated
consummate
was
to
he
than
more
any
tlety
sub-
several
get
well
thoroughlyItalian
public opinions,while
the
conspiratoras
that
sure
riots,
no
of 1793".
return
step, and
was
when
he
one
He
com-
accomplices.
To
secure
eral
gen-
success.
thing was wanted,
The 15th Brumaire
racy
(the final plan of the conspithat day), Bonaparte
to be determined
on
was
was
present at a subscriptiondinner given him by
approval only
one
"
THE
five
''
PROLOGUE
hundred
six
or
Never
at
"
sentiments."
There
It
Sulpice.
aloud
the
in
by
sanctuary, and
some
watching and
who
sat
of
ill at
the
ease.
the
as
if
as
mutual
given in
was
known
seemed
in his
Gohier
gaiety,no
no
dinner
Victory,otherwise
Councils.
two
moirs,
Me-
expressiongiven to Republican
was
The
of
of the
banquet," says
there less
was
265
BBUMAIBE.
18TH
members
civic
THE
OF
no
Church
if every
Temple
of Saint
dared
one
as
the
gratulations.
con-
speak
to
one
were
pressed
op-
one
was
parte,
Bona-
at the
dent
righthand of Gohier, the PresiDirectory,appeared out of spiritsand
He
partook of nothing but bread and
wine
he
brought to him by his aide-de-camp. Was
afraid of poison? The official toasts, proposed without
drunk
enthusiasm, were
coolly. Bonaparte did
not
even
from
rose
a
few
the
hasty words
to
of
end
the
dinner
table, walked
the
he
denly
sud-
about, uttering
principalguests,and
went
away.
Arnault
house.
with
describes
that
Josephine did
even
than
more
parties were
evening
the honors
her
President
"
the
of the
felt himself
to
be
minister, and
house, it seemed
a
monarch
Minister
Fouch^
Madame
side.
Bonaparte's
arrived and
of all
generals,deputies.
Directory. From
of the
master
Men
grace.
gathered there,
a
general's
drawing-room
of her
usual
Royalists,Jacobins, abbds,
the
at
the
as
lordlyair of
if already he
surrounded
sat down
the
even
by his
on
court.
the sofa
by
266
"
"
"
"
Gohier.
What's
FouchS.
The
Gohier.
But
Fouche.
Always
treat
caught.
time
besides that?
that.
the
idle
same
old
same
rumors.
conspiracy.
thoroughly
had
If there
it's been
signs of
it in the
plain of
Crenelle
been
going to
conspiracy all the
not
am
there
words
these
[At
how
it, Citizen
be
not
de la Revolution
Place
?
me
of, would
talked
I know
But
understand
in
confidence
Director ; have
be
nothing.
FoucM.
"
!
{shrugginghis shoulders).The conspiracy
Gohier
"
Citizen Minister
Oh
news
The
FouchS.
"-
the news,
What?
''Gohier.
to
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
some
the
in
or
burst
Fouch^
laughing.]
Madame
Bonaparte. For shame. Citizen Fouch^ !
Can you laugh at such things?
who
Minister
The
Gohier.
speaks like a man
calm
But
his business.
understands
yourself,Citiout
"
"
zeness
think
; to
they
talk about
will not
government;
do
such
have
to
be
not
done.
be
at
uneasy
is to
ladies
things before
like the
Act
those
rumors.
Sleepquietly."
Bonapartelistened with
The evening passed as
no
took
room.
uneasiness
on
smile.
usual
any
one's
gradually emptied.
leave of Josephine,who
Arnault
with
stayedto the
Bonaparte.
there
withdrew
last and
ing-room
draw-
Her
face.
Fouch^
ment,
excite-
no
was
and
to
had
Gohier
her
this
own
versation
con-
268
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
convoke
cients
LegislativeBody (the Council of Anthe Council
of Five Hundred) outside of
the
and
the
to
capital,
it from
preserve
multitude, and
to
choose
troops destined
to
defend
the
also
this
change
of the
Council
of
the
councils
two
made.
from
forbidden
build.
the
when
voted
was
the
on
by
the
part of
change
which
on
stitution
Con-
moment
until the
the corner-stone
was
command
the
This
of the
legislature.The
place of meeting
was
influence
general to
that
provided
the
was
the
spiracy
con-
The
allegedpublic perilwas
so-called Jacobin
a
conspiracy,which, accordingto
the
Bonaparte's partisans,threatened
Legislative
to
was
The
Body.
of
should
Council
it
meeting
be
Brumaire
of Ancients
the Council
place
18th
should
Saint
to
assignedthe
be
convoked
always met,
at
eight in
should
so-called Jacobin
for the
vote
of the
at
the
the
the
vote
day when
change the
Bonaparte
troops. The
Tuileries,where
morning;
enlargeon
plot,and,
to
Cloud, and
command
to
was
set
was
the
to
some
one
perilsof
change
carried,the Council of
place of meeting once
Hundred, which did not meet till eleven, would
to submit
But
collect the
morning
he needed
their presence
was
17th
not
War, and
the
Five
have
in silence.
how
The
the
was
had
his orders.
no
and
to
succeed,
at the very
Division,with
under
taken?
in the
command.
its
He
beginning.
headquarters in Paris,
was
How
not
was
Minister
it
of
possible,
THE
PROLOGUE
without
very
THE
269
BBUMAIRE.
18 TH
under
eyes
about
OF
overthrow
to
it ?
forces
the
government,
What
the
that
were
pretext could
be
vised
de-
for
Guard
had
been
respects to General
he
should
18th
accounted
was
Three
them
at
day.
To
Tuileries
him.
Colonel
the
he
needed
his
the
devoted
most
five in the
morning,
orders from
this mission.
mounted
With
the
at
of Ancients
garrisonof
protect the
; he
Paris and
two
its
that
have
hoi*se-
on
goons
dra-
accepted
once
generals and
by
the
been
receive
should
escort
an
morning
to
change
of
voted
by
command
suburbs, and
Councils, who
sent
hundred
two
followed
would
the
to
S^bastiani,without
moment
should
same
Corsican,
ride in the
would
receive
was
be
to
brilliant staff of
the very
place of meeting
word
at
superiors,
officers,
preceded and
the Tuileries
Council
with
9th.
his
dragoons,Bonaparte
the
invited
of
honor
of the
adherents,
was
regiment,the
the
Victoire
;
was
depart.
to
morning
cavalry escort
the
it
that he w^ould
la
in
which
about
de
rue
Sebastian!,who
at
the
in
that
untimely hour
on
was
sent
was
six
at
this
journey
the
decided
was
house,
and
general
from
go
waiting for
to
by
o'clock
of his
of
his
at
Brumaire
Word
seven
of
one
back
It
For
presentingtheir
ridingby
to
them
for
that
pretended
of
Bonaparte.
receive
morning, the
desirous
de
the
of
be ordered
sit the
next
270
the
day,
18th
19th,
Barras
at
the
at
would
give
to
all
that
assumed
an
would
go
their
it.
The
fall
into
morrow.
with
and
of
the
approval,
snares
them.
conspirators
were
Every
bade
Five
that
the
If
end.
the
resolved
he
set.
The
preparation
one
another
kept
two
under
Moreau,
for
and
had
It
would
which
revolution,
would
be
to
plished
accom-
Bonaparte
case,
Five
its
head.
its
Hundred
any
the
organize
dis-
but
Avhich
legality,
In
violence.
to
on
General
of
ignation.
res-
of
of
be
Napoleon
Council
appearance
without
heels
government,
new
his
the
would
would
by
plans,
in
consisting
Gohier,
ready,
the
their
oppose
which,
hand
the
on
of
course
Roger-Ducos,
Luxembourg
constitution
hoped
and
the
to
close
following
and
way
In
persuaded
Directory,
the
guard
The
be
Moulins
members,
Cloud.
Sieves
of
resignation
was
Saint
would
This,
not
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENE88
Hundred
proceed
legislature
had
farewell
been
fused
re-
without
to
was
made.
till
the
XXVIII.
THE
AT
of the
9th
eighthundred
surprisedto
no
Do
"
If that's what's
those
and
garden
Bernadotte.
were
Only
At
the
one
he
of the
of
the
in
was
said, "is
you
of the
valiant
let
our
who
pettifoggers
joy,exclaimed,
We
must
was
ments
regi-
he
most
Will
with
ready.
am
six,
military
him, and
speedilyfilled with
one
parte's
Bona-
different
to
to
place
before
"Here,"
Lefebvre, wild
into
pettifoggers
uniform.
are
hands
up,
taken
of
ruining it ?
with
you, who
garden
dragoons,but Bonaparte
disconcerted.
way
the
Victoire.
sent
Sdbastiani's
see
Pyramids.
"
la
saying anything
sabre which
are
de
been
the Turkish
defenders
had
commander
had
colonel
de la Revolution
dragoons
rue
the
Orders
without
in
the
in
occupied
himself
mounted
Lefebvre,
division.
had
Place
He
men.
house
arrived
the
and
hundred
two
was
Dragoons,
Tuileries
of the
with
the
five in
BRUMAIEE.
18TH
citizen's
The
throw
house
officers in
dress; it
full
was
said,
272
"
BONAPARTE,
CITIZENESS
No
! you
no
perhaps I
shall be able to
o'clock
Eight
Madame
this note,
brought by Eugene
breakfast
us
Gohier:
with
there
are
good
"
17th
told
wife
Madame
"
that
When
dear
by, my
fail
should
Gohier.
always
La
Pagerie-Bonaparte."
aroused
You
will
go
that
suspicions. He
Gohier's
but
can't
I shall have
of the
course
Good
wife
not
interesting
thingsI
me
Bonaparte
but
in the
VIII.
your
Do
eight.
"
Sincerelyyours,
early hour
his
received
:
and
you
was
tory.
Direc-
Brumaire, Year
at
about.
"
The
had
husband
Won't
many
Believe
of the
de Beauharnais
to-morrow
us
entered; it
of the President
evening before,her
Dear
where
away
you."
woman
"
"My
going
am
save
struck;
Gohier, wife
The
fail.
will
must
you
accept her
the honor
of
tell
tion,
invita-
seeing her
morning."
Bonaparte
saw
Madame
Gohier
arrive alone,
he frowned.
"
What
"
he exclaimed,
"
com-
ing?"
"
"
But
and
"
he must
I will
see
come.
Write
I will write
to
him
line,Madame,
is sent."
charge of
the letter."
servants
THE
follows
as
"
did
You
convinces
happen.
had
to
which
with
how
the
note, I
"
Everything you
I
I shall not
which
the wish
establish.
to
thought
Use
do
ment
govern-
By sending
my
you
the
authorized
is
presence
see
your
band,
hus-
yourself reflect
you
influence,I beg
all your
the
that I indicated
When
and
reflect,
been
Gohier
of
of the
members
to
got
planned
President
the
detain you.
I have
that
I had
am
bid him
has
am
I shall
snare.
to it."
attached
band
hus-
everything
what
sorry
of the
proposes
"
her
to
said
wants
he
importance I
was
Madame,
you,
who
one
dear
sent
her, and
be
wrote
possible.*'
as
to
Bonaparte,
son
my
Gohier
came
Directory to
my
to come,
not
with
soon
indicate
must
did
as
Madame
Bonaparte
see
not
me
When
and
"
well
to you
come
pen
took
Gohier
Madame
273
BRUMAIBE.
18TH
to express
to you.
of you, to induce
on
liim to
come."
Madame
Bonaparte
to
were
What
The
help him
was
Council
took
returned
Gohier
amid
ofiicers
the
in the coup
going
on
of Ancients
the
to the
floor,and
at
cVetat.
the
met
Tuileries
at
began
daggers.Terrorists.
Ancients
does
not
ing
Luxembourg, leavof all grades who
protect the
meanwhile?
net
Cor-
eight o'clock.
to
"If
speak
about
the
Council
country
and
spiracy,
con-
of
liberty
274
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENE88
from
It will be
...
stop
The
devouring progress.
Representativesof
its
consumed.
to
cease
This
effect.
who
its skeleton
will
outburst
of
Council
people,ward
publicperil,a change
in
the
produced
distinct
in the
Article
1.
The
the Commune
Legislative
Body
of Saint
with
of
in case
authorizing,
place of meeting of
Legislative
Body, passed the followingvotes
"
talons
Ancients, in accordance
Constitution
articles of the
will be
disputeits
declamatory
The
the
be
will
exist,and
of vultures
impossibleto
country
threatened
ever
Cloud
"
is transferred
the two
the
Councils
to
will
"Article
2.
19th
the
deliberations
forbidden
are
official acts
and
place,before
that
All
Brumaire.
at
any
morrow,
to-
noon
hour.
"Article
3.
General
of this decree.
the execution
is
Bonaparte
The
.
charged with
manding
general com-
militarydivision,the Guard of
Legislative
Body, the stationaryNational Guard,
the 17th
4.
to
of
in the Commune
now
the
the
Paris,are
his orders.
General
receive
Bonaparte
"
copy
is summoned
of this decree
and
to
to
take oath
accordingly."
Scarcelyhad the vote been taken when
de
off to tell Bonaparte in the rue
Cornet
tened
has-
la Victoire.
276
CITIZENESS
Only
deputy
one
mention
made
was
wishing-to
silenced him
and
Bonaparte
reviewed
It
BONAPARTE.
observed
of the
closed
the
down
of Five
The
dent,
Presi-
perjury,
open
into
the
cheered
hour
for the
set
Hundred.
The
meeting
Deputies heard
They
Cloud
at Saint
meet
Of
the five
all discussion
imperative;
was
and
garden again
him warmly.
with
Constitution
no
meeting.
o'clock,the
of the Council
this oath
Constitution.
Bonaparte too
went
eleven
in
spare
the troops,who
was
that
do
nothing
to
the next
day.
but
to
their
The
bidden.
for-
was
agree
to
Directoi-s,
two, Siey^s and
Roger-Ducos,
had alreadyhanded
in their resignations
; the third,
and Talleyrand,liad
Barras, at the request of Bruix
justfollowed their example, and had started for his
estate, Grosbois
made
other
final effort.
one
and
found
the
Council
they
; the
Bonaparte
They
the
to
and
After
Moulins,
the
to
went
of Ancients.
returned
two, Gohier
Tuileries,
Inspectorsof
livelyaltercation,
Luxembourg, having
plished
accom-
nothing.
A
to
Bottot, Barras's
with
peace
in
before,Bonaparte had
few moments
find
defeat !
everywhere
have
that I left
this France
; I
you
secretary :
war
I left you
I left you
ruinous
done
with
so
the
laws
"
the hundred
glory?
victorious
millions
and
of
of
thousand
I left
I find you
Italy;
misery!
thus
you done
have
Wliat
full
spoken
I find
What
Frenchmen
THE
whom
dead
are
This
In
de Stael
Madame
to
for
human
the
from
the French
on
Would
race,
if these
Directors
demand
of
for the
perishedfrom
who
But
Cadiz
the 18th
on
future disasters?
forever
hats
no
lived
du
their
terre
was
of
regime
is what
be General
the
grand
"It
was
by
leries the
forth
The
could
the
foreigner
who
predict these
by
Sdgur,the
:
the
The
grenadiers'
Jacobins
The
terrible
The
career
said, who
had
Club
San-
faubourgshad
had
the
Even
the
diatribes of the
brewer.
aristocrat
young
the
the
military spiritwas
fascinated
army
which
"
echo.
no
tribunes.
de
rise
account
an
Alps
caps, but
furious
harmless
mere
were
a
The
called
the
to
were
for the
pikes,but bayonets.
calm.
grown
voice
The
red
more
day.
Manage
lesson
great
Brumaire
invincible.
more
make
to
selves
Bonaparte'ssoldiers imagined them-
No
triumphant.
the
account
Moscow
to
Revolution^
Napoleon
and
Paris, and
entered
twice
be
it not
They
In three
worked
Bonaparte
"
says
true.
predictions
his
last.
thingscannot
despotism."
Considerations
her
glory?
of
state
lead
it would
years
277
BBUMAIBE.
18TH
silenced
of
men
of
the
historian of the
old
This
arms.
was
the
day
one
to
exploitsof
"
very
Council
revolution
moment
of
when
Napoleon,
moned
sum-
of the
18th
Brumaire
Paris to
secure
and
it
was
against
278
CITIZENESS
the
other
leaned
Council.
around
ran
the
and
with
soldier's blood
I had
boiled
veins.
my
that
regiment
helmets
die.
My
I
moment
maire
de
she
Stael
records
happened
When
this
from
all my
soldier; I thought of
that
at
"gave
way
of
the
first time
the
us
hearing it made
since
in every
it
the
land.
Switzer-
Barras
"
only more
Revolution
Bru-
leagues from
The
of the
news
18th
from
some
other career."
the
on
the
she goes
ancestors
determined.
was
to arrive in Paris
changing horses
heads,
advancing on
sight,all the
dragoons
excitement, the
career
was
trance;
en-
bridge,
draw-
their
on
At
inherited
of
the warlike
or
the
near
air of soldiers
to conquer
in
up,
determined
the enemy
gate
they started
rolled
overcoats
fierce and
the
it open.
saw
From
last I reached
at
their
The
againstit,and
Then
came
BONAPARTE.
had
just
postilions,"
day, and
vivid.
that
one
It
this
was
man's
mouth.
was
of but this
all.
That
man
who
evening
of the morrow,
was
the
going
citywas
and
desired that
General
the
excited
with
doubtless
peacefulcitizens,fearingthe
then
to take
the
place of
tation
expec-
majorityof
return
of the
Jacobins,
Bonaparte
should
succeed.
THE
fight
had
the
with
He
his
himself,
house
Josephine
preparations
well
in
happy
were
du
Bonaparte
great
battle.
of
the
contented
rue
Jour;
fell
la
complete
asleep
the
day,
All
Tuileries
palace
calmly
as
of
on
returned
he
the
Moreau
the
as
filled
where
Victoire,
confident.
Murat,
triumph
his
with
de
and
but
prophetic."
called
be
the
bloodshed;
Bonaparte's
might
the
of
victory
for
signal
Lannes,
Luxembourg.
Point
the
that
When
momentary
thought
pain
mixed.
were
say,
be
might
nevertheless
me
must
begun,
once
Jacobins
to
feelings,
Mj
279
BRUMAIBE.
18TH
found
military
occupied
the
Serurier,
the
Saint
the
Cloud.
eve
of
XXIX.
THE
revolution
THE
called
Brumaire
19th.
the
the
the conqueror,
chose
The
dare
the 18th
to
The
rise.
no
The
throng
Cloud
noon.
if it
of
The
little before
looked
that
the
19th
the road
saw
all the
more
Councils
o'clock
what
on
Paris
from
were
Saint
meet
punctual,
Bonaparte
on
was
Cloud,
thus
It had
excited.
should
at
was
success
not
Representatives
twelve
not
troops, carriages,and
with
both
did
interestingplay which
wrath.
was
lution.
revo-
an
curiosity. Bonaparte's
public interest
decided
of the
tory,
his-
Paris
were
was
reason
before
faubourgs
of
or
the issue
was
the law
to
himself
the
day
for that
official date
the
crowded
full of
predicted,but
been
as
paid
was
excuse
people
emotion
morning
Saint
the
as
decisive
the
is
18th
the
yet in fact
violated, and
was
aroused
to
law
respect
desiring to
happening
was
prelude;
18th
effected
Bonaparte
Brumaire,
mere
the
On
19th
the
on
was
which
18th
the
BRUMAIRE.
19TH
and
at
a
back,
horse-
the head
THE
his
of
decorations, and
;
and
began.
park. It
unfavorable
distinctly
were
That
of the
began with
Gardin
that
of
made
seat
"
"
; we
maison
Five
heard.
free here !
moved
of
in.
The
motion
The
roll
was
was
called
Lucien
letter
called
do
of the
Bonaparte
which
he
brought from
"
Grand-
Council
of
renew
of the Year
great enthusiasm.
member
himself
was
The
arose
compelled to
carried amid
his
frighten
not
clamor
Constitution
for each
from
everything!
once
the
murmurs
out
dictators !
with
pointed
ap-
to be taken
formidable
be at
an
be
Hostile
Bayonets
A
to
fidelity
the Constitution
A
"
with
seven
measures
before
DoAvn
should
Hundred
was
of
their oath
turn.
the
Delbel
death
liminaries
pre-
Bonaparte presided.
public safety.
I
dictatorship
No
unimportant
committee
report on
the
or
are
much
opened.
were
Hundred,
Five
Constitution
The
Constitution
us
that
themselves
:
the
impatience.
Councils
Lucien
passion.
make
behalf
the
of
proposed
to
in
Ancients
of
at
Hundred
Five
utmost
of the
outbreak
the
orange
Bonaparte. He,
to
repeatedorders,betrayingthe
At
the
the
annoyed by
that
evident
was
Mignard's
completed
not
not
was
of
the
on
waiting,the deputiesstrolled
While
sessions
in the
it
meet
in
were
prei3arations
appointed hour,
the
Hundred
Five
the
the
but
to
were
house
Ancients
The
troops.
281
BRUMAIRE.
19TH
to
Barras.
to
in
to
fidelity
swore
about
swear
destroy.
Amid
general
282
CITIZENESS
BONAPARTE.
the
Director
ended
thus
return
of the
honor
of
glory
the way,
opening
accorded
the decree
of the
his
it
resignation;
accompanies the
which
I had
distinct marks
the
the
of the
him
by the Legislative
Body, and
National Representatives,
have convinced
that whatever
me
this letter,in
confidence
the
announced
The
"
aloud
public interests
be
may
henceforth
the
part
summon
may
to which
the
me,
ever,
have
had
This
Of
the
in
destinies
produced
feelingof
government
dissolved.
was
had
nothing to
the
tribune
the
resignationof
stand
we
that
who
some
First
"
know
in
the
we
said
from
whether
which
members
where
Bonaparte
to
know
must
is not
The
resigned.
Resistance
of all,we
Barras
among
had
came
we
are
traordinary
ex-
placed.
going."
are
While
thus, what
there
surprise.
angry
Grandmaison
on.
circumstances
I think
of which
Republic
letter
the
of the
and
the
session
had
of
the
Five
been
taking place
Bonaparte had just made
had spoken as a master.
he
had
said, "you
Hundred
among
began
the
cients?
An-
his appearance
"
are
Citizen
not
now
resentat
Repin
284
CITIZENES8
of
the pay
in
I shall
me,
BONAPARTE.
should
foreigners,
summon
that I march
left the
taken
note
calm,
Council
he ordered
leavingit
of
the
threshold
when
speakingabout
the afternoon
Bonaparte
the
:
indignation
the tyrant !
"
"
threatened
It was,
of his life.
vais, a Norman
deputy
his assailants
were
soldiers.Grenadier
dagger.
house
was
The
like
He
was
and
sight of
the
long
of
cry
! Down
with
general,
him
daggers and
later,the
saved
most
Beau-
by
who
strength,
brought
his aid.
his
five in
was
they forced
enormous
Thom"^, had
was
said
he
hastening to
tumult
a
of
in
in the
the
meet
brandished
Many
perilousmoment
soldiers,who
to
he crossed
It
Dictator
denouncing him
his life.
d;*ove back
uttered
the
him,
was
At
lit.
were
all rushed
steps back.
follow
alone, hat
Barras's letter.
with
Down
and
forward
Hundred
Five
be
to
Thereupon
Grandmaison
lamps
They
crowding liim
several
the
of passion
outburst
grenadiersto
just
tribune
her
Hundred.
stepped
It
was
of the
and
hand.
he had
told
of the Chamber,
the door
at
he
he
well.
of Five
company
and
which
he heard
time
plied
re-
meeting,and
his soldiers
to
going on
was
same
the
in
returned
of
of Ancients
of the
Josephine in
to
that all
the
At
and
hall
God
ing
accordby respectfully
the honors
Bonaparte
member
Re-
arms.
of the
Council
The
outlawing
in
company
stormy outbreak
to this
to
in the
of war."
and
fortune
companions
my
of
speak
him
One
clothes
to
his
of the
cut
by
battle-field.
THE
It
brother.
Cries
Bonaparte
and
the
vote
time
to
chair.
my
place!
the
Ask
Bonaparte, who
for
under
the
guard
had
of his
assassination.
brandished
say, and
The
Five
Hundred
he
at the
Calvados,
motion
said,
fprce
to protect
inform
their
moment
to
which
have
remind
been
lamentable
the
his
on
general and
a
He, who
utter.
word
to
dispersed,but
knew
no
describes
house
from
direct
Council
excesses.
noble
up
Can
deeds
from
tile
Talet, both hos"
I do
opposition to
but it is
that
so
coming
be-
was
speeches,one
two
began to speak :
brought
forgetsuch
eral
Gen-
house,
got
but
be
us
driven
had
had
the other
make
"to
"
narrowly escaped
in the orange
Bonaparte, Lucien
rise," he
lose
us
the orange
would
After
intense.
of
every
Rubicon.
the tumult
more
to
been
to
he
He
to
put
dictator !
Meanwhile
make
hesitated
undecided
Bertrand
that
troops cheered
weapons.
fear,became
duced
armed
an
soldiers,and
their
the
this word
to
I have
just left
run.
over-
on
of the
outlawry
him
'^
make
Don't
departure." Fregevilleran
my
him,
deputy ;
with
was
steps, denounced
your
vote
desk
His
my
from
to
"
Down
him."
outlaw
the
support his
him.
President," said
back
Put
"Tell
accomplices!
his
descended
Go
"
tried to
Outlaw
"
propositionto
Lucien
side.
arose
March,
"
Lucien
that
in vain
was
285
BBUMAIUE.
19TH
the
and
an
the
proper
suspicions
lightlyhave
even
not
pi-o-
illegalstep
important
ser-
286
CITIZEN
vice in behalf
"
Time
of the
These
.
the
shall
and
will
you
without
it
without
measure
that he be called to
become
the
indecent.
violent.
more
order
is
once
Then
lished,
estab-
more
indecorum
extraordinary
yourselves render justicewhere
became
Since
that
violent
so
ceased,
has
due,
it is
could
Lucien
; so
tribune, he
the
heard, you
"
have
will at
least
of
means
no
see
the
making myself
President,
your
publicgrief,
placing here
of
No," resumed
your
uproar
here.
"
colleaguesare
your
When
"
cries,
were
passion."
The
not
such
ask
and
insist.
not
rupted
inter-
was
There
vote
of
voice
continue
They
Lucien
unseasonable, interruptionswhich
drown
"
the motion
cannot
General
hearing the
murmurs.
flying; put
is
Lucien, "you
bar.
country
continual
by
BONAPARTE.
ESS
token
in
insigniaof
the
lic
pub-
magistracy."
"
his
It is
lamentable
Revolution^ "that
its
throat, should
soldier's'
than
arms
oaths,
new
and
deserted
the vain
by
despairand
moments
the
amuses
no
other
such
blunt
have
at the
between
two
swords
which
hour
of
at
against the
weapons,
of indescribable
in the balance
defence
roll-call,
promises
protestswith
nation
with
denounced,
threatened, surrounded,
"
to
science,
con-
die, uproar,
Assembly,
deceives
peril,
an
Then
anxiety,when
were
there
historylay
opposing destinies,liberty
THE
knowing
no
general,averse
After
had
he
of
make
ceased
we
in
loud
sign
the
orange
where
to
house,
he
he
moment
and
after
profound
"
was
roll of the
silence
to
announce
Council
is
at
doubtless
in
general !
Being
of
vote
the
the
be
to
the
live
the
sound
of
daggers,and
from
Republic !
the
"
silent,on
Give
"
of the
one
Leaving
drums
the
me
"
In
dragoons,
followed
was
he
by
vast
majority of
intimidated
The
daggers.
desire
pay,
with
the
by
to
this
few
brigands,
outlaw
of the
execution
they
your
are
in
volt,
re-
representativesof
delivered
soldiers.
open
courtyard,
and
appeal
of
his
with
entrusted
the
to
motionless
moment
English
meeting.
horse
armed
representatives
you
plied
re-
the
that
this
orders," he
close
drums, which
you
dent,
Presi-
Citizen
"
Vice-President,
Citizen
"
of his brother.
the
and
the
on
pany
com-
to
by
"
of the
the
saw
follow
will
his brother
shouted,
said,
hastened
horseback, surrounded
horse," he
We
turning
found
he
"
him
to
He
General's
the
by
voice,
Then
passage."
made
here
are
tions,
complica-
edge
the
on
asked
who
the
usurpation."
speaking.
he had
the
to
violent
To
end
his toga
grenadierswhich
itself,and
save
an
placed
tribune, Lucien
to
putting
to
daring to
not
which
in
way
287
BEUMAIRE.
19TH
the
people
let the
the
majority of
stiletto
To
from
this
tatives
represen-
the Council
by bayonets! Long
cry
the
soldiers
an-
288
swered
with
waving
stab
to
He
Murat
Five
drowned
the
to
The
drums
of
voices
hall
the
fled
through
the
the
garden. Only
wished
last he took
Paris
In
rumor
and
outlawed
had
expelled
-de
during
was
Stael
this
at
were
going
to
made
ready
to
I heard
that
leave
wept,
but
not
over
over
the
the
country knows
roar
the
XVI.
to
house
orange
his
seat,
saying
and
him,
at
into
he
at
rest.
he
her
"
Once
different
of
Saint
he told
dame
that Ma-
impressions
friends who
my
Cloud
me
sent
had
again ;
of
that
only shame
the next
triumphed,
and* I
moment
the
soldiers
Representatives,and
National
never
existed
libertywithout
and
me
the Jacobins
and
victorious
was
It is thus
One
sittingin
which
liberty,
hope
their
of Louis
voice
of the
Bonaparte
of the
describes
carry
Chamber
beaten
Hundred.
hour.
every
general hesitated
the
the
next, that
Five
the
to
representativesof
the
agitatedday :
present
bulletins
the
violence
At
one
impatientlyawaited.
that Bonaparte was
proscribed
ran
the
Lucien,
this sword
does
They laughed
was
the
moment
And
grenadierscommanded
clung
one
"
with
The
were
windows
flightlike
news
"
enter
was
die there.
to
ever
drowned
moment
he
the
Leclerc
Hundred.
swear
ordered
and
"
out,
French
the
Bonaparte
brother, if
own
my
longer.
no
cried
sword,
live
Long
"
libertyof
the
by
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENE88
misery."
in
France,
which
THE
All
Madame
day
had
been
of
Three
and
in
be
anxious,
her children
of
case
when
the definite
the
Theatre
Feydeau,
the
Auteur
dans
the
screamed
Then
with
Madame
and
theatre
The
All
some
The
At
soldiers of the
to
I want
think
eleven
the whole
of
one
knew
well
how
He
gave
so
masses.
of
la
o'clock
town,
of those
he
but
legality.The
or
his
Saint
secretary:
"
And
coup
an
d'etat
Councils
effect upon
a
had
to
to-morrow,
up
!
at
field.
the battle-
night on
Write
for
the
fear.
about
was
it wakes
me.
o'clock.
to
more
Paris
summoned
when
Saint
them.
who
that
to compose
to
parte
Bona-
Victoire, where
nothing
man
camped
nothing
dictated
de
reassured
had
on
daughters left
her
rue
the
Leclerc
Madame
impossible at
In
at
half-pastnine
and
Josephine,who
"
was
forward
assassinated
was
the
to
Bonaparte family
Cloud.
"
It
terror.
was
she
given.
stepped
country
Bonaparte
resistance
evening,
theatre, where
was
one
usual
this
hastened
found
they
manage
her
daughters to
her
the fashionable
shouted
traitors
by
with
go
would
three
unknown,
still
was
to
son
play
struggle,
In the
her emotions.
enough
yet courageous
of
in the
engaged
Nevertheless, with
result
calm.
outwardly
Napoleon's failure,all
she concealed
course
general'smother,
though
were
severelypunished.
energy,
the
Bonaparte,
very
289
BBUMAIRE.
19TH
he
he
the
false appearance
justmet
for
290
CITIZENESS
night
absent.
be
to
session.
Most
But
minority was
majority. Bonaparte^ Sieyes,and
it made
taken
for
Roger-Ducos
by
of
"
the
the
itself
serving
born
that
along
till
"
in
of
No
have
with
the
and
confidence
of the French
and
abundance
shine
the
people, listen
its
their shouts
also
the
to
born
sublime
the
in
depths of
'89
the
it
of
the
There
has
fathers
the
is
and
nothing in
succeeded
in
the
on
of
love
of peace
and
factions,and
If
Listen
liberty
been
of Versailles, it has
were
Saint
of
house
fathers
the
world
easier
brilliant colors.
of
the
than
In
of
may
hearts !
your
peacemakers
the
has
manly
its
people
of the Year
Revolution, but the legislators
be
it
convulsive
the smile
posterity!
of
orange
of
Constituents
and
blessingof
voice
of
in turn
has assumed
plaything
the
speech:
lips. Representatives of
at the tennis-court
consolidated
The
the
to
reach
its
on
this
meeting
than
capable
in-
tennis-court
established
you
having
declared
infancy. To-day it
sooner
of
representatives.
immortal
our
trusted
en-
were
Sixty-one
re
as
session
night
Since
were
constitution,
new
guilty
the weakness,
inconsistency,
robes.
was
respected,Ave
of
liberty was
ailments
and
consuls
Hundred,
law
the
dragged
the
Five
ended
Versailles.
Hundred
legislativecommissions.
future
French
Five
difference ; the
no
for the
Lucien
the
preparations of
make
to
of
appointed
the
two
deputies
wished
were
with
aided
BONAPARTE.
Cloud.
of
VIII.
the
will
country."
to set
what
Brumaire,
as
XXX.
EPILOGUE.
BONAPARTE
Paris,
between
having
General
fatiguefollowingso
presentiment of
deeds,which
have
the
would
beaten, he
he knew
would
brother
Lucien,
the way
it
law
an
outlawed
but his
own
he himself
would
have
been
carted
conqueror,
he
swearing
that
the
man
name
of
abuse, he
of
ascend
his
was
been
have
Frenchman.
292
to hear
this
been
the
queror,
con-
Beaten, he
the
to
the
the
steps
to
gibbet. As
the
capitol,
quered,
Con-
As
songs
dust, and
country'ssaviour.
conqueror,
destiny,the protectinggenius.
was
it
dragged in
he would
he
as
will.
been
to
and
Was
Had
have
he
was
physical
was
he
reflections he must
of fortune
been
have
been
have
morning,
emotions?
many
What
turns
no
in the
All
Was
to
were
character?
on
Cloud
ture
future, the thought of his fu-
the
great historical
made
his
Gardanne.
absorbed, thoughtful,silent.
moral
four
him
carriagewith
in the
Sieyds,and
and
three
Saint
from
returned
of
praise,and
he
was
Instead
to
see
the
of
the
293
EPILOGUE.
partieslaying down
old
their
joininghim
enthusiastically
the
and
army
cheers
populace rending
churches,
of
outburst
same
know
d'Stat
them
well
are
hero
ridiculous
truth
one
people is
back
Victoire, which
he
and
where
the
success
had
of the
before
kissed
He
danger he
had
been
jestingabout
man
whom
had
which
greet
that
their
how
and
vain
The
next.
How
traitor.
tain
uncer-
universal
What
voice
is
of the
few
and
the
de la
rue
him
happiness,
returned
for
Italy
victorious,
of
preme
su-
Josephine tenderlyand
told
through in
the
spoken.
"
in the
he started
he had
the orange
embarrassment
which
compelled to speak.
of Paris
marched
house
felt confident
of the
and
Fate
the coup
and
are
you
always
coup
the master
make
the
in the
he
days
two
who
always brought
whither
power.
he rested
everywhere
success,
married, whence
was
Egypt,
the
forum,
not
Bonaparte was
where
the
like
history! Posterity,
alteringits judgment.
of
is false the
year
their
air with
find
judgment,
forever
is
suffrage,
the
their
fail,and
the
the ovations
the merest
on
is human
the verdict
and
that
flag;
in
those
Royalists
young
the tricolored
to
was
Yet
joy.
very
depends
you
"
he
"
depend solelyon
success
under
priestssinging hymns
the
camp,
arms
up
in the
house,
he,
Then
morning,
of France.
Who
God
could
of
resist the
fortune
and
with
man
of
"
war
294
CITIZEN
This
is what
is said
by Edgar Quinet,
describes
writer, who
the
whole
BONAPARTE.
ESS
This
the
the
ocratic
great dem-
passiveadhesion
of
imagine,the greatest
of liberty
in France ;
griefof the last representatives
after which
all griefis but a jest. They imagined
that they were
followed
by people whose souls they
owned.
For
days they were
going here' and
many
people :
"
the
were
uplifted,and
the
the
of
Where
their
was
few
often
and
force,incredulity,
in
shade
with
anger?
Roman
hearts
silence.
tion?
indigna-
have
The
All
seemed
years,
mere
fallen in
Five
faces, sudden
themselves
they
moment;
wild
answered.
only astonished
to
the
the
often
pikes so
of fourteen
driven
great
echo
at
which
Where
those
No
oaths
nation
pride?
could
years ?
found
so
public places.
forests of
the
repeated
had
How
so
Where
magnanimous
master
and
cross-ways
magnificentorators
old assemblies
and
was,
dred
Hun-
conversions
dissipated
Avas
to be
pursuing
vision."
The
time
was
was
to
etiquetteof
in the
was
an
to
plicity
drawing nigh when republicansimgive way to the formal and refined
who
guished
lanmonarchy ; when the woman
prisonof
be surrounded
Asiatic
congratulatehimself,as
into
taken
the
crowd
of
in tow
by
For, he goes
on,
and
splendorof
the pomp
Lucien
who
Bonaparte
he said,that
princes and
all the
"
the Terror,
with
when
queen;
"
princesseswho
renegades of
knows
he had
whether
to
was
not
got
were
Republic."
the example
the
295
EPILOGUE.
apostasiesmight
of all these
pervertedmy
have
not
sentiments?"
and philosophic
political
The
it is.
forth
one
The
illusions
smile
history,the
studies
more
If
the
forever
what
to
And
be?
heart?
of their
epoch
nounced
an-
would
what
the
end
what
did
the
Republicans, formerly
of
arrogant, think
France
has
their
dint
apostasies.By
adored, and
had
one
them
and
haughty
if any
officers,
and
admirers
his
only
can
unhappy humanity
Bonaparte have said,
would
What
turns.
the efforts,
we
it.
circle in which
the vicious
lament
; not
before
abyss yawning
compare
ism.
absolut-
itself immortal
thinks
we
about
liberty,
about
Every government
one,
in which
illusions
"
depressing
more
these
has
she
what
burning
of
sant
inces-
adoringwhat
distrustful of her
change
so
come
be-
glories,
ready to destroy
own
illustrious
readilyas
It
was
an
done.
was
no
The
were
many
to
of
be
called
existed
Republic
gone.
was
queens
title of
One
more
man
possess
only
worn
new
dress.
position. She
Bonaparte, but
was
in
regime, until
old
Empress
alone
than
Citizeness
bear the
Consul
gets rid
Josephine had
more
Madame,
should
actress
and
name
left:
Your
Majesty.
its institutions
Bonaparte as
constitutional
less influence
she
and
First
sovereign,and
prestigethan
296
period of
Yet
on
their lives
Brumaire
his
All
that
wife
would
served
with
it
of Barras, and
Milan
she
attained
such
was
who
secured
had
him
made, when
of
useful
as
was
aristocratic
the
to him
made
herself
Republicans;
she
covered
laid
note
morning
sword
with
irresistible ;
was
her
Aftej
liberal
and
Madame
18th
cities
during
the
Directory,
Royalists and
both
of the
18th
flowers,and
Brumaire,
in her perfumed
The
movement
smiles
pleted
com-
work.
He
was
into
turn
never
believed
Lucien
that he had
sure
a
still nourished
equal, now
your
sincere
and
say, he deceived
ardent
us
by
the
Republic
and
sincerely
liberty. Later, he
saved
Gouvion
C}^" to General
acknowledge,dear General, that
once
that
monarchy,
Saint
my
at
the
Bonaparte's
Brumaire
Lafayette.
Italy;
would
was
twenty-six,
of
for Gohier.
snare
husband's
the
to
the
on
his
welcome
support
iating
Paris, by concil-
in
as
the
but
Army
both
societyin
wonderful
for him
bitious
am-
commander-in-chief
the
soldier of
liberty,
truly patrioticwoman.
hardly have
She
results.
for
counted
reallyrepublican
happiestportion. Before
deemed
was
husband
he
the
was
Bonaparte
and
her
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
your
"Will
you
knew
Emperor,
Republican ?
deceived
you
not
this soldier,
when
No, you
false appearances.
said at
he
will
Well, for
himself
for
297
EPILOGUE.
long
or
you
General
time
He
me.
served
such
of
character
whom
we
it
sort of court
Bonaparte
was
grew
up
any
Caesar.
he still hoped to
and
to
to receive
Directors
yourselfin
such
The
dent
indepen-
mountaineers
among
proceeded
had
all
should
as
be
detected
to
himself
the
the consent
treat
in
the
body
every-
that
Napoleon
18th
Brumaire
of the two
illegality.Who
a
ladies-in-
be treated."
evening of
consented
him
Madame
by prefectsand
that he
secure
and
yet thirty,
not
you
could
The
avoid
the Directors
as
Tuileries, and
the
at
everybody desired to
possiblyin spite of
was
became
sturdy
change
to do
.
surrounded
was
waiting,that
and
dared
tion
Conven-
and
saw,
you
like
succeeded
was
of the
Republic
population.
the
Republican
born
were
dignity; and
was
which
not, perhaps,have
land, amid
It
the
ardor
all the
with
would
Bonaparte
to lower
knows
If
colleague,although
the Constitution
cils
Coun-
he
was
required that
the
first,Bonaparte
a
became
make
us
uniform
to
the
be
was
Republican, and
phine
Jose-
coronation
robes, and
more
,
than
298
BONAPARTE.
CITIZENESS
beneath
once,
the
golden hangings of
palaces,Josephine regrettedthe
the
modest
house
rue
of the South
brightsun
could not
Like
Imperial
make
in the
love.
her
The
forgetthe
in liberty
she
what
de
it
When
name.
la Victoire
was
But
take
to
few
enough for
They went
of
Maria
few
and
was
Madame
the
of
Lucien, the
to
he
of
Tuileries
regret,as
Consular
put it,
"
Republic could
monarchical
been
so
to
was
that the
have
which
XVI.,
Brumaire,
the
large
not
Bonaparte.
place in
the
France, and
Empire,
Constitution
been
be called the
may
power,
Louis
to
the
to what
had
days
rue
Luxembourg.
take
in the
18th
de' Medici
after the
up
the residence
days
little house
was
of the
ficed
readilysacriof the
personification
so
in the person
of the unfortunate
the
best-meaningof sovereigns,
parte
Bonabarbarouslydestroyed."Madame
be compelled to part company
with Madame
of Barras, once
Directory. Even the name
obscure and forgotten
in his estate of
so
powerful,now
to be uttered.
Grosbois, was
never
Bonaparte could
not
bear to be
on
who
were
reminded
that
to
once
Already the
man.
form
that
the
consular
he
herd
had
been
pendent
de-
of flatterers,
court, had
begun
to
INDEX.
battle-flags,15
conduct
to
of
describes
Madame
de
the
Damas
Josephine, 223.
Duke
Abrantes,
of, 91;
of
Aides-de-camp
Egypt, 240.
Junot.
see
Bonaparte
In
Alvinzy, advance
of, 67, 71.
of the, to vote to
Council
Ancients,
the
place of meeting,
change
of Napoleon's
Barras, a witness
to Josephine, 1 ; conciliated
marriage
ens
by Josephine, 109 ; threatLavalette, 140 ; speech of, at
Bonaparte's reception in Paris,
178 ; at the end of his tether, 213 ;
Bonaparte's
disgust with, 260;
resignation of,276, 281.
Beauharnais,
Eugene
de, taken
into Bonai)arte'sconfidence, 238 ;
affection
Bonaparte's
for, 240;
wounded
Saiut Jean
at
d'Acre,
the departure of
at Saint
268; does so, 274; meets
240; describes
from
Cloud, 280.
Egypt,
244;
Bonaparte
phine,
Arcole, battle of, 80.
pleads with Bonaparte for Jose256.
of,
Army, the, of Italy,enthusiasm
25 ; the poverty of, 30 ; swiftness
Beauharnais, Hortense
de, acts in
and
Esther
before
success
of, 03; discouragement
Bonaparte, 195.
of, 72 ; heroism
of, 78 ; wild
Beauvais, a Norman
deputy, saves
its
with
284.
triumphs. 111;
Bonaparte,
joy over
ardent
regard Bonaparte as an
Bonaparte, marries the Viscountess
of Beauharnais, 1 ; deeply in love,
Republican, 131.
describes
Arnault
effect
the
of Josephine's
4, 35
43, 105
for
leaves
Paris
seq.;
affectionate
letters
his
Italy, 2;
of Talleyrand, to
et
his
et seq.,
with
swift
the
for
army
Egypt, 207;
Bonaparte
conversation
about
of, with
the 18th Brumaire,
Augereau
sent
win
counsels
to
Paris
by
the confidence
135;
267.
of the
the
command
of
Italy, 5; his
successes,
Republican,
crats,
Demo-
of
Army
18 ; effect of
his victory
Lodi, 18;
Milan,
agination,
of striking the imhis
hold
his
on
28;
his resignasoldiers, 29; sends
tion
enters
27 ; his power
ary
reaction-
deputies, 138.
the
at
lighting, 59;
Bonaparte to
arrests
takes
to
lack
the
Directory, 32;
his
of
Ball, Talleyrand's, in
Bonaparte,
188 ; cost
honor
of, 192.
of
on
his
campaign, 47;
SOl
sentimen-
302
INDEX.
tal
in
chord
inspired by
50;
his
love
character, 30;
and
in
announces
patriotism,
advance
tlie
defeat
of
Wurmser
at Castiglione,GO, and
Tyrol, 63 ; impatient with
in the
Wurmser,
58;
Carnot
assures
retreat, 72 ; confesses
forced
to
he had
lost
demeanor
Milan
at
cole,
after Ar-
of
the
Directory to
Italy,159 ; smashes
porcelain and declares
revolutionize
Cobenzl's
with
war
Austria,
1(50 ;
signs
the
treaty of Campo
the
Venetian
and
Republic,
the
to
anxieties, 70;
68; his
defeats
commands
letter
from
congratulating
him
Talleyrand
the peace,
on
his return
on
to
\VA; sets out
165
his
Paris,
journey a series of
;
ovations, 168; arrives in Paris,
his
168 ;
at
171 ; public
the Luxembourg,
popularity,
reception to, at
172; pleased by Talleyrand's
flatteries,
175; his speech
the
reception, 177; attends
ball
Talleyrand's
189 ; elected
in
his
honor,
of the
member
stitute,
In-
not
to
194; determines
Paris, 197; visits the
northern
ports, 198; determines
the Egyptian expedition,198;
on
100
defeats
the
Archduke
Paris secretly, 202 ; his esleaves
cape
Pope,
;
and enters
Charles
from a serious accident, 203 ;
Germany, 102;
with
makes
Austria
and
clares
deat
Toulon, 204 ; sails from Toulon,
peace
207 ; his faith in his fortune, 209 ;
war
against Venice, 104;
his court
in the Serbelloni
Palace
proclamation of, to his men, 210 ;
105
in Milan,
contempt of the Legitimists for,
; pleases all parties,
109 ;
his court
loyal
for the
at the
tory,
Direc-
Josephine, 110 ;
to
castle
of Monte-
declares
bello, 115;
Josephine's
tutes
dog, Fortune', his rival,121 ; instia grand military festival at
his soldiers,
Milan, 124 ; happy among
127 ; reveals
to
Melito,
first for
at
own
game,
141;
accuses
the
at
135 ; makes
to his
240
; his
Passeriano,
143;
Venice
149; decides to abandon
Austria, 151; his situation
critical, 158; gains Talleyrand
by
sympathy
158 ; refuses
phine's
Jose-
at
to
and
obey
fidence,
con-
the
proclamation
241; his
Cairo, 242
army
at
to return
destroys
; his
march
to
Turkish
the
246; his
246
to his army,
wonderful
campaign
to
of
Beauharnais
Republican
advantage.
Directory of injustice,
letter
to
147;
of,
Talleyrand,
letters
de
Eugene
Republican proclamation
army,
effect
of the
of the
132 ; a
his
in
stay
skilful
perilousreturn
to
use
to
parte,
Bonaof it,
France,
at Corsica,
seq. ; arrives
249 ; lands at Frejus, 251 ; arrives
247
et
303
INDEX.
sephine,
Joto see
ia Paris, 254 ; refuses
duct
conBonaparte, Pauline, frivolous
witli
the
handsomest
255 ; is reconciled
of, 118;
265
d'etat of
coup
269
et seq.;
Brumaire,
Madame
Goliier to summon
the
; arranges
in Paris, 228.
woman
Bottot, Barras'
secretary, sent to
at
Bonaparte
Passeriano,
147,
that
the
to
Bonaparte
protests
admire
and
love
him,
Directory
150.
the
of
279;
events,
Ancients
the
appears
and
master,
282;
of Five
Hundred
speaks
the
enters
among
as
Bucentaur,
Council
and
tary
celebratingmili-
21 ; opposes
ter
rand's
Talleyglory,
284; his proclamation, 290; masinto the ministry,
entrance
of France, 293; possibly a
186.
Caesar in spiteof himself, 297.
defeated
Charles, the Archduke,
Bonaparte, family, the, at Monte115.
102.
bello,
by Napoleon,
See
with
phine. Cobenzl, Count, his intercourse
JoseBonaparte, Citizeness.
144
lent
Bonaparte,
; Bonaparte's viotua,
Letitia, at
scene
with, regarding ManBonaparte, Madame
to Bonaparte's
160 ; accedes
Genoa, 116; character
of, 226;
resided
her
289.
Caroline,
Bonaparte,
228;
tious,
ambi-
229.
Bonaparte,
Bonaparte,
Elisa, 228.
character
Jerome,
of,
hatred
of Bonaparte, 223.
to the Council
Cornet, his address
of Ancients, 273; informs
parte
Bonaof the action of the Council,
275.
Council
228.
de, her
of Five
Hundred,
tion
indigna-
at Saint
of,276;
Cloud,
to Bonaparte,
280; unfavorable
persed
281, 284; uproar
in, 285; disof, 226.
by the Grenadiers, 288.
Bonaparte, Louis, aide-de-camp to
hostile
phine,
Joseparte,
to
Croissier,
aide-de-camp to BonaBonaparte, 92;
Bonaparte,
leon
Joseph,
by Napoter
Directory,12 ; charac-
meet
sent
to the
93.
228.
Bonaparte, Lucien,
character
career
of
Council
the
and
president Damas,
Madame
to
meet
Ancients,
Josephine, 223.
ional
253; silences the Deputies, 276, Dandolo, at the head of the provis151 ;
in Venice,
by the Depugovernment
281; denounced
ties,
285
296.
of
; cherishes
the
liberal
hopes,
speaks
courageously
for lis country,
and
163.
quently
elo-
304
INDEX.
Bonaparte
Holland, King
Louis
of, see
parte,
Bona-
92.
Gratitude
Festival
"
the
of
the Victories,"
of
19; detect
Junot,
Paris
to
sent
with
the
tured
cap-
ter
12, 16; characbattle-flags,
of, 90; tells Bonaparte that
of rashness
and
240; made
up
risks, 247.
Elliot, Bonaparte's aide, killed at
Arcole, 82, 86.
"
Festival
of Gratitude
and
Victories," celebration
of the
of, 19.
Go-
38 ; goes
Marquis
Bonaparte,
145.
Admiral,
Rear
Gantheaume,
by
takes
to,
110.
to
meet
of, snubbed
Milan
Bonaparte
Bonaparte, 44; saves
leave
him
to
Brescia,
by inducing
from
55; in peril,55; fired on
is
Gallo,
to
letters
her
to
Bonaparte
101 ; her
Serbelloni
Palace
not
court
in
in
portrait
; her
preserved,
the
Milan, 107
kindness
of, 120;
parte's
grand reception given to, by the
213; disturbed at Bonaprinciples,
naparte, Venetians, 157 et seq. ; her happiarrival, 253 ; receives Boness
to
of,
complete, 195; wishes
258; conversation
phine's
Josewith Fouche, 266 ; declines
to
Bonaparte
Egypt,
accompany
invitation, 272; protest
206; views the departure of the
of, 276.
fleet,210; accident to, at Plomtivated bieres, 220;
Gohier, Madame,
friendshipof, culbuys Malmaison,
M.,
Gohier,
by
her
Josephine, 231;
husband
partes'plot,272.
Goncourts, the, on
the
Republican
to
true
of the
the
forms
in-
Bona-
worship
of
214.
Theophilanthropists,
Grassini's
interview
with
leon,
Napo-
111.
Gros,
paints
Bonaparte,
the
93.
first
portrait of
110;
tact
221 ; hurt
aid
Bonaparte would
not
305
INDEX.
have
become
Gohier's
at M.
253;
denied
meet
him
the
; is reconciled
apartment,255
him, 256; her
great service
in
to
starts
road, 253;
wrong
admittance
to Bonaparte's
takes
and
the
tact
skill
of
of
the
18th
Bru-
with
his
him
at
real
concerning
ideas, 132.
Mersfeld, General
Milan,
and
plans
Austrian
von,
plenipotentiary
with
Bonaparte, 259;
to
secret
and
conversation
Passeriano,
at
146.
Metternich
says
that
Napoleon
was
99.
irreligious,
Michelet, quoted, 50.
not
volve Milan,
into
entrance
into,
Napoleon's
maire, 267; her attempt
of
soldiers
the Gohiers, 273 ; her presthe
comfort
the
25;
tige
tories
and influence, 295 ; takes up
in, 31 ; society in, after the vic112 ; grand
her quarters in the Tuileries,298.
of Bonaparte,
military Republican
Lanfrey, M., describes
for
attachment
Festival
at,
124.
Josephine's
Montebello,
Napoleon, 35.
Bonaparte's
court
at
135;
act
on
the
with
Royalists,
threatened
the
draft
of
the
armistice,
12.
by Barras,
timony
Bonaparte, 140 ; his teswith
his
regarding the intrigues Nelson
guarding Toulon
of Bonaparte's
fleet when
brothers
the Egyptian expedition
against
sailed, 209.
Josephine, 170.
Lavalee, Theophile, quoted, 212.
the
Lebrun, the poet, his hymn at the Paris, under
Directory, 37 ;
fickleness
23.
of, 212; not conspicuous
Republican banquet,
for morality, 214 ; all parties
naparte,
Lefebvre, General, won
over
by Boto
271.
prepared
play Bonaparte's
218.
camp,
Lemerrois,
Bonaparte's aide-degame,
92.
Pope, the. compelled by Bonaparte
tory,
cede territo pay a subsidy and
Lodi, the battle of, 18; festival
19.
100.
the
of,
celebrating
victory
Luxembourg,
public reception to
Quinet, Edgar, quoted, 83, 139, 264,
Bonaparte at, 172.
286, 294.
turns
re-
to
describes
the entry into
Marmont,
of.
tion
Ragusa, Duke
Milan, 27; Napoleon's conversaMadame
of, 91 ; Remusat
with, 28 ; character
his
account
tebello,119
; on
the
the
stay
at
at
signing of
no
his affection
the
Marmont.
de, says
for
Jean
leon
Napo-
161 ; describes
the way
to Egypt, 208.
Melito,Miot de, relates Bonaparte's
on
had
Mon-
Campo Formio,
cape
esBonaparte's narrow
describes
203
at Roquevaire,
;
perils of the Egyptian expedition
treaty
the
of
See
mits
ad-
Josephine,
a
visit
to
with, 12.
d'Ange'ly,Regnault de.
306
INDEX.
accident
to
Bonaparte
while
ing
rid-
of M. Robert,
30 ; of the French
111.
in Milan,
with,
army
Scott, Walter, calls Napoleon fiery
in love as in war,
Suleau, prediction of, 261.
42; describes
the
reception of Josephine at Sulkowski,
Bonaparte's aide-doher honors
92.
Genoa, 88; describes
camp,
in Italy, 117.
naparte
Sebastiani, Colonel, ordered
Theophilanthropists, the worship
by Boto guard the Tuileries,
of, 214.
269, 271.
Talleyrand, plays the part of a
General
his
of
fanatical
account
Segur,
de,
Republican, 141; his
the
Tuileries
letter to Bonaparte on the events
the
scenes
at the
18th Brumaire, 277.
of 18th Fructidor, 142; Bonaparte
phine
JoseSerbelloni, Duke
of, meets
gains him by letters of confidence
at the
of
and
to
Milan,
45;
sympathy,
158; writes
gate
203.
his
palace
at
the
residence
of Bonaparte
Milan, 46,
Sieyes, Abbe,
Bonaparte
refuses
him
news
of French
Stael, Madame
reverses,
de, discovers
to
et seq.
243.
the
Citizen
; tries to overreach
187 ; gives
that
Bishop of
Talleyrand,
a
grand
honor, 189.
Au-
185
parte,
Bonaball in
Bonaparte's
16.
Tallien, Madame,
Republic was
only a means
for Bonaparte's ends, 136 ; affects
phine
a
passion for Bonaparte, 137 ; in Venice, grand reception to Jose138
decadence
151
the
17th
et
Fructidor,
at,
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