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Updated: May 7, 2025
The fault committed by the Directory is owing to yourself! Bernadotte? he is gone to join you. Cacault? he is recalled. Twelve thousand men for your army? they are on their march. The treaty with Sardinia? it is ratified. Bourrienne? he is erased. The revolution of Italy? it is adjourned. Advise the Directory, then: I repeat it, they have need of information, and it is to you they look for it."
The fault committed by the Directory is owing to yourself! Bernadotte? he is gone to join you. Cacault? he is recalled. Twelve thousand men for your army? they are on their march. The treaty with Sardinia? it is ratified. Bourrienne? he is erased. The revolution of Italy? it is adjourned. Advise the Directory, then: I repeat it, they have need of information, and it is to you they look for it."
Cacault tried to persuade them that the cardinal himself must go to Paris. "Most Holy Father," said the French minister, "it is necessary that Consalvi himself carry your reply to Paris. What alarms me most is the character of the First Consul; that man is never open to persuasion.
The fault committed by the Directory is owing to yourself! Bernadotte? he is gone to join you. Cacault? he is recalled. Twelve thousand men for your army? they are on their march. The treaty with Sardinia? it is ratified. Bourrienne? he is erased. The revolution of Italy? it is adjourned. Advise the Directory, then: I repeat it, they have need of information, and it is to you they look for it."
On the 13th May, 1801, he wrote to M. Cacault, French minister at Rome, that he had determined to accept no longer the irresolution and dilatory procedure of the Court of Rome; if in five days the scheme sent from Paris, and long discussed by the Sacred College, was not accepted, Cacault must leave Rome to join, in Florence, General Murat, the commander-in-chief of the army of Italy.
The emotion at the Vatican was great. Shortly before, when giving Cacault his final instructions, the First Consul said, "Forget not to treat the Pope as if he had 200,000 men at his orders." The French minister had faithfully observed this injunction, which agreed with his personal opinions: he knew the obstacles which still separated the new master of France from the Roman Court.
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