and treacherous
through prudence, will always attribute perverse intentions. Carnot
admits that there were not ten men in the Convention that were conscious
of probity."]

[Footnote 51147: See in this respect "Histoire de ma Vie," by George
Sand, volumes 2, 3 and 4, the correspondence of her father enlisted as
a volunteer in 1798 and a lieutenant at Marengo.--Cf. Marshal Marmont,
"Memoires," I., 186, 282, 296, 304. "Our ambition, at this moment, was
wholly secondary; we were occupied solely with our duties or pleasures.
The most cordial and frankest union prevailed amongst us all."]

[Footnote 51148: "Journal de Marche du sergent Fracasse."--"Les Cahiers
du capitaine Coignet."--Correspondence of Maurice Dupin in "Histoire de
ma Vie," by George Sand.]

[Footnote 51149: "Les Cahiers du Capitaine Coignet," p.76. "And then
we saw the big gentlemen getting out of the windows. Mantles, caps
and feathers lay on the floor and the grenadiers ripped off the
lace."--Ibid., 78, Narration by the grenadier Chome: "The pigeons all
flew out of the window and we had the hall to ourselves."]

[Footnote 51150: Dufort de Cheverney, "Memoires," September 1, 1800.
"Bonaparte, being fortunately placed at the head of the government,
advanced the Revolution more than fifty years; the cup of crimes was
full and overflowing. He cut off the seven hundred and fifty heads
of the hydra, concentrated power in his own hands, and prevented the
primary assemblies from sending us another third of fresh scoundrels
in the place of those about to take themselves off.... Since I stopped
writing things are so changed as to make revolutionary events appear as
if they had transpired more than twenty years ago.... The people are no
longer tormented on account of the decade, which is no longer observed
except by the authorities.... One can travel about the country without
a passport.... Subordination is established among the troops; all
the conscripts are coming back.. .. The government knows no party; a
royalist is placed along with a determined republican, each being, so to
say, neutralized by the other. The First Consul, more a King than Louis
XIV., has called the ablest men to his councils without caring what they
were."--Anne Plumptre, "A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France
from 1802 to 1805," I., 326, 329. "The class denominated the people
is most certainly, taking it in the aggregate, favorably disposed to
Bonaparte. Any tale of distress from