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Even in Bonaparte's own guard, and among the officers of his household troops, several examples of rigour were necessary before they would go to any place of worship, or suffer in their corps any almoners; but now, after being drilled into a belief of Christianity, they march to the Mass as to a parade or to a review.
Every one who has observed Bonaparte's incessant endeavours to intrude himself among the Sovereigns of Europe, was convinced that he would cajole, or force, as many of them as he could into his revolutionary knighthood; but I heard men, who are not ignorant of the selfishness and corruption of our times, deny the possibility of any independent Prince suffering his name to be registered among criminals of every description, from the thief who picked the pockets of his fellow citizens in the street, down to the regicide who sat in judgment and condemned his King; from the plunderers who have laid waste provinces, republics, and kingdoms, down to the assassins who shot, drowned, or guillotined their countrymen en masse.
Within three feet of the dog he stopped, then springing quickly on Bonaparte, with a screeching, bloodcurdling yell, grabbed his stump of a tail in both hands, and as the crowd rushed up, they heard its sharp teeth close on Bonaparte's most sensitive member with the deadly click of a steel trap. The effect was instantaneous. A battery could not have brought the champion to his feet quicker.
'Do you see that sulky old Croat, smoking his pipe under the tree? 'No, he is a Black Brunswicker. 'Nonsense, Willie; the Black Brunswickers weren't till Bonaparte's time. 'I don't care, he is anything black and nasty; here goes! 'Oh stop; don't shoot. I believe he is only a vivandiere. Besides, it's treacherous 'I tell you he is laying a train to blow up the tower. There!
Bonaparte's Assertion of Independence Helplessness of the Directory Threats and Proclamations The General and His Officers Bonaparte's Comprehensive Genius The Devotion of France Uneasiness in Italy The Position of the Austrians Bonaparte's Strategy His Conception of the Problem in Italy Justification of His Foresight Modena, Parma, and the Papacy The French Radicals and the Pope Bonaparte's Policy His Ambition.
On July 27th he sent to the Directors a brief note stating that Augereau had requested leave to go to Paris, "where his affairs call him"; and that he sent by this general the originals of the addresses of the army, avowing its devotion to the constitution. No one would suspect from this that Augereau was in Bonaparte's confidence and came to carry out the coup d'état.
"Dear me! I hope you are not hurt, my boy," said Bonaparte. "You'll have many a harder thing than that though, before you've gone through life," he added consolingly, as Waldo picked himself up. The lean Hottentot laughed till the room rang again; and Tant Sannie tittered till her sides ached. When he had gone the little maid began to wash Bonaparte's feet.
Indeed, Bonaparte's name and fame are so engrafted with the arts and literature of France, that it would be impossible for the government to erase the estimation in which he is held by the French people.
But her health, already cruelly affected by Bonaparte's persecutions, having suffered from the fatigues of a long voyage, she felt herself obliged without farther delay to undertake the history of the political life of her father, and to adjourn to a future period all other labors, until she had finished that which her filial affection made her regard as a duty.
The conquered Milanese was by a magical touch provided with a provisional government, ready, after the tardy assent of the Directory, to be changed into the Transpadane Republic and put under French protection. Every detail of administration, every official and his functions, came under Bonaparte's direction.
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