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Updated: June 22, 2025
As she turned round, Madame Gohier came face to face with General Moulins. He, for his character was naturally impetuous, seemed furious. "Pardon me, citizeness," he said. Then, rushing into Gohier's study, he cried: "Do you know what has happened, president?" "No, but I have my suspicions."
To the philosopher's "J'ai vécu" he could oppose the crushing retort "J'ai vaincu." The general, on meeting the thinker at Gohier's house, studiously ignored him. In truth, he was at first disposed to oust both Sieyès and Barras from the Directory. The latter of these men was odious to him for reasons both private and public.
It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon. An instant later Gohier's secretary returned in great perturbation. "Well," said Gohier, "why have you not gone?" "Citizen president," replied the young man, "we are prisoners in the palace." "Prisoners? What do you mean?" "The guard has been changed, and General Jube is no longer in command." "Who has replaced him?"
"For not having looked at him or spoken to him at Gohier's dinner." "I must confess that I did it on purpose. I cannot endure that unfrocked monk." Bonaparte perceived, too late, that the speech he had just made was like the sword of the archangel, double-edged; if Sieyes was unfrocked, Talleyrand was unmitred.
The church of Saint-Paul has long needed a monstrance in keeping with the magnificence of that basilica, itself due to the Company of Jesus. Neither the vestry nor the curate were rich enough to decorate the altar. Monsieur Baudoyer has bestowed upon the parish a monstrance that many persons have seen and admired at Monsieur Gohier's, the king's jeweller.
"I think he means to make himself Director in place of Sieyes, or perhaps president in Gohier's stead." "Good! How about the Constitution of the year III.?" "The Constitution of the year III. What about that?" "Why, yes, a man must be forty years old to be a Director; and the general lacks just ten of them." "The deuce! so much the worse for the Constitution. They must violate it."
To the philosopher's "J'ai vécu" he could oppose the crushing retort "J'ai vaincu." The general, on meeting the thinker at Gohier's house, studiously ignored him. In truth, he was at first disposed to oust both Sieyès and Barras from the Directory. The latter of these men was odious to him for reasons both private and public.
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