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Updated: June 17, 2025
Bonaparte, before going down the stairs which led from the small round dining-room into the courtyard, returned quickly to bid Bernadotte follow him. He would not, and Bonaparte then said to me, while hurrying off, "Gohier is not come so much the worse for. him," and leaped on his horse. Scarcely was he off when Bernadotte left me.
This was not, indeed, the only instance in which M. Collot had cause to complain of Bonaparte, who was never inclined to acknowledge his important services, nor even to render justice to his conduct. On the morning of the 20th Brumaire Bonaparte sent his brother Louis to inform the Director Gohier that he was free.
She was always of great service to Napoleon in his relations with the men of whom he wished to make use; fascinating them and drawing them over to him, she charmed such persons as Barras, Gohier, Fouché, Moreau, Talleyrand, Sièyes, and others. By her skill she kept hidden Napoleon's plans until all was ripe for them. She was in the secret of the 18th Brumaire; "nothing was concealed from her.
"You do it?" cried Gohier. "It seems to me it is for the Directory, not you, to say, 'I shall do it!" "There is no longer a Directory." "I did indeed hear that you said so just a moment before we came in." "There is no longer a Directory, now that Sieyes and Ducos have resigned." "You are mistaken. So long as there are three Directors, the Directory still exists.
Sieyes and Ducos were the only directors who made their appearance; Gohier, that morning, had sent to Bonaparte an invitation to dinner, so as to deceive the more securely him whom he knew was his enemy; Barras and Moulins, suspecting Bonaparte's schemes, remained in the background, silently awaiting the result.
Barras, Moulins, and Gohier, apprised on their side, but a little too late, of what was going on, wished to employ their power and make themselves sure of their guard; but the latter, having received from Bonaparte information of the decree of the ancients, refused to obey them. Barras, discouraged, sent in his resignation, and departed for his estate of Gros-Bois.
Only, I have given you a part in the conspiracy." "What is it?" "Sit down and write to Gohier." "That we won't dine with him?" "On the contrary, ask him to come and breakfast with us. Between those who like each other as we do there can't be too much intercourse." Josephine sat down at a little rosewood writing desk "Dictate," said she; "I will write." "Goodness! for them to recognize my style!
"True," replied Napoleon, "it is always, the greater number which beats the less" "And yet," said Gohier, "with small armies you have frequently defeated large ones." "Even then," rejoined Napoleon, "it was always the inferior force which was defeated by the superior.
I believe Josephine communicated directly with the President of the Directory through a friend of Madame Gohier's. Gohier and Moulins, no longer depending on Sieyes and Roger Ducos, waited for their colleague, Barras, in the hall of the Directory, to adopt some measure on the decree for removing the Councils to St. Cloud.
Madame Bonaparte, who was dining with M. Gohier when that despatch was communicated to him, as president of the Directory, immediately set off to meet her husband, well knowing how important it was that her first interview with him should not be anticipated by his brothers.
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