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Napoleon at Paris Political manoeuvres The meeting of the Champ-de-Mai Napoleon, the Liberals, and the moderate Constitutionalists His love of arbitrary power as strong as ever Paris during the Cent Jours Preparations for his last campaign The Emperor leaves Paris to join the army State of Brussels Proclamation of Napoleon to the Belgians Effective strength of the French and Allied armies The Emperor's proclamation to the French army.
Under pretence that emigrants who had borne arms against France had been introduced into the Chamber of Peers, and that the Chamber of Deputies had already sat for the legal time, it dissolved both Chambers, and convoked the Electoral Colleges of the Empire, in order that they might hold, in the ensuing month of May, an extraordinary assembly the Champ-de-Mai.
The Champ-de-Mai itself, which, despite its name, fell on the 1st of June, turned out hardly a more successful exhibition.
They held out to the Republicans a prospect of confiscation, proscription, and, revolution of government, while, the Imperialists were gratified with a view of ample funds for pensions, offices, and honorary decorations. To proprietors of the national domains security was promised, to the Parisians the grand spectacle of the Champ-de-Mai, and to.
They held out to the Republicans a prospect of confiscation, proscription, and, revolution of government, while, the Imperialists were gratified with a view of ample funds for pensions, offices, and honorary decorations. To proprietors of the national domains security was promised, to the Parisians the grand spectacle of the Champ-de-Mai, and to.
The act, however, was published; the electoral colleges accepted of it, as they had done of all its predecessors; and it by degrees came out that the business of the Champ-de-Mai was to be not even the discussion of the imperial scheme, but only to swear submission to its regulations, and witness a solemn distribution of eagles to those haughty bands who acknowledge no law but that of the sword.
This display of philanthropy was set down universally for a stage-trick; and men quickened their eyes, lest such unsubstantial shows in the distant horizon might be designed to withdraw their attention from the foreground. The great assemblage of Champ-de-Mai had been originally announced for the 10th of May; and its principal business as the formation of a new constitution.
Under pretence that emigrants who had borne arms against France had been introduced into the Chamber of Peers, and that the Chamber of Deputies had already sat for the legal time, it dissolved both Chambers, and convoked the Electoral Colleges of the Empire, in order that they might hold, in the ensuing month of May, an extraordinary assembly the Champ-de-Mai.
Napoleon at Paris Political manoeuvres The meeting of the Champ-de-Mai Napoleon, the Liberals, and the moderate Constitutionalists His love of arbitrary power as strong as ever Paris during the Cent Jours Preparations for his last campaign The Emperor leaves Paris to join the army State of Brussels Proclamation of Napoleon to the Belgians Effective strength of the French and Allied armies The Emperor's proclamation to the French army.
They held out to the Republicans a prospect of confiscation, proscription, and, revolution of government, while, the Imperialists were gratified with a view of ample funds for pensions, offices, and honorary decorations. To proprietors of the national domains security was promised, to the Parisians the grand spectacle of the Champ-de-Mai, and to.
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