nals had to be
preserved without derogating from forms. The plan was to confine me in
my own house; but they forgot or delayed to carry this out. Who do you
think repeatedly sent to urge the execution of this measure? Myself;
yes, myself!"]

[Footnote 2676: In "Histoire de la Revolution Francaise" by Ferrand
& Lamarque, Cavailles, Paris 1851, vol. II. Page 225 we may read the
following footnote: "This very evening, a young artillery lieutenant
observed, from a window of a house in the rue de l'Echelle, the
preparations which were being undertaken in the chateau des Tuileries:
that was Napoleon Bonaparte.--Well, right, asked the deputy Pozze
di Borgo, his compatriot, what do you think of what is going on? This
evening they will attack the chateau. Do you think the people will
succeed?--I don't know, answered the future emperor, but what I can
assure you is that if they gave me the command of two Swiss battalions
and one hundred good horsemen, I should repel the insurgents in a manner
which would for ever rid them of any desire to return." (SR)]

[Footnote 2677: Napoleon, at this moment, was at the Carrousel, in the
house of Bourrienne's brother. "I could see conveniently," he says, "all
that took place during the day... The king had at least as many troops
in his defense as the Convention since had on the 13th Vendemaire,
while the enemies of the latter were much more formidable and better
disciplined. The greater part of the national guard showed that they
favored the king; this justice must be done to it." (It might be
helpful to some readers to know that when Napoleon refers to the 13th
Vendemaire, (5th Oct. 1795) that was when he, as a young officer was
given the task to defend the Convention against a royalist uprising.
He was quick-witted and got hold of some guns in time, loaded them with
grape-shot, placed them in front of the Parisian church of Saint-Roch
and completely eliminated the superior royalist force. SR.)]

[Footnote 2678: Official report of Leroux. On the side of the garden,
along the terrace by the river, and then on the return were "a
few shouts of Vive le roi! many for Vive la nation! Vivent les
sans-culottes! Down with the king! Down with the veto! Down with the
old porker! etc.--But I can certify that these insults were all uttered
between the Pont-Turnant and the parterre, and by about a dozen men,
among which were five or six gunners following the king, the same as
flies follow an animal they