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Such were the object and result of Corvisart's visit, and I am thence led to believe that similar attempts must have been made to influence other members of the Tribunal. But however this may be, prudence led me to discontinue visiting M. Desmaisons, with whom I was in habits of the strictest friendship. About this period I paid a visit which occupies an important place in my recollections.
Apropos, Bourrienne, have you seen Corvisart?" "Yes, Sire." "Well!" "He delivered to me the message with which you entrusted him." "And Desmaisons! I wager that you have not spoken to him in conformity to my wishes." "Sire, the estimation in which I hold Desmaisons deterred me from a course so injurious to him; for in what other light could he have considered what I should have said to him?
Such were the object and result of Corvisart's visit, and I am thence led to believe that similar attempts must have been made to influence other members of the Tribunal. But however this may be, prudence led me to discontinue visiting M. Desmaisons, with whom I was in habits of the strictest friendship. About this period I paid a visit which occupies an important place in my recollections.
Apropos, Bourrienne, have you seen Corvisart?" "Yes, Sire." "Well!" "He delivered to me the message with which you entrusted him." "And Desmaisons! I wager that you have not spoken to him in conformity to my wishes." "Sire, the estimation in which I hold Desmaisons deterred me from a course so injurious to him; for in what other light could he have considered what I should have said to him?
I have, besides, the best reason for asserting that the judges were tampered with, from, a circumstance which occurred to myself. Bonaparte knew that I was intimately connected with M. Desmaisons, one of the members of the Tribunal, and brother in-law to Corvisart; he also knew that Desmaisons was inclined to believe in Moreau's innocence, and favourable to his acquittal.
Such were the object and result of Corvisart's visit, and I am thence led to believe that similar attempts must have been made to influence other members of the Tribunal. But however this may be, prudence led me to discontinue visiting M. Desmaisons, with whom I was in habits of the strictest friendship. About this period I paid a visit which occupies an important place in my recollections.
Visit Bourrienne, said the Emperor, and concert with him respecting the best method of convincing Desmaisons of his error, for I repeat he is wrong, he is deceived. This is the mission with which I am entrusted." "How," said I, with thorough astonishment, "how came you to be employed in this affair?
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