in the forest of Eu: "It is stated that they have leaders, and that
drilling goes on under their orders.--Vendemiarie 27, year VIII.)
"Twenty-five armed brigands or drafted men in the cantons of Reaute
and Bolbec have put farmers to ransom."--(Nivose 12~ year VIII.) In the
canton of Cuny another band of brigands do the same thing.--(Germinal
14, year VIII.) Twelve brigands stop the diligence between Neufchatel
and Rouen; a few days after, the diligence between Rouen and Paris is
stopped and three of the escort are killed.--Analogous scenes and mobs
in the other departments.]

[Footnote 2107: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), Librarie
Plon, Paris 1893. I., 260. Under the Directory," one day, in order to
dispatch a special courier, the receipts of the Opera had to be taken
because they were in coin. Another day, it was on the point of sending
every gold piece in the musee of medals to be melted down (worth in the
crucible from 5000 to 6000 francs)."]

[Footnote 2108: "Theorie constitutionnelle de Sieyes." (Extract from
unpublished memoirs by Boulay de la Meurthe.) Paris, 1866, Renouard.]

[Footnote 2109: "Correspondance de Napoleon 1er," XXX.. 345.
("Memoires.")--"Memorial de Sainte-Helene"]

[Footnote 2110: "Extrait des Memoires" de Boulay de la Meurthe, p.50.
(Words of Bonaparte to Roederer about Sieyes, who raised objections and
wanted to retire.) "If Sieyes goes into the country, draw up for me at
once the plan of a constitution. I will summon the primary assemblies
in a week and make them accept it after discharging the (Constituant)
committees."]

[Footnote 2111: "Correspondance de Napoleon ler" XXX., 345, 346.
("Memoires.") "Circumstances were such as to still make it necessary to
disguise the unique magistracy of the president."]

[Footnote 2112: The Revolution," III., 458, 417.--"Mercure
britannique," nos. for November 1798 and January 1799. (Letters from
Belgium.)--"More than 300 millions have been seized by force in these
desolated provinces; there is not a landowner whose fortune has not
been ruined, or sequestrated, or fatally sapped by forced levies and the
flood of taxes which followed these, by robberies of movable property
and the bankruptcy due to France having discredited claims on the
emperor and on the governments, in short through confiscation."--The
insurrection breaks out, as in Vendee, on account of the conscription;
the war-cry of the insurgents is, "Better die here than elsew