e here far down into
the consulate, in spite of the vigor and multitude of military
executions.--(Letter of the sub-prefect of Tarascon, Germinal 15, year
IX.) "In the commune of Eyragues, yesterday, at eight o'clock, a band of
masked brigands surrounded the mayor's house, while some of them entered
it and shot this public functionary without anybody daring to render
him any assistance.... Three-quarters of the inhabitants of Eyragues
are royalists."--In series F7, 7152 and those following may be found
an enumeration of political crimes classified by department and by the
month, especially for Messidor, year VII.]

[Footnote 2116: Barere, representative of Hautes Pyrenees, had preserved
a good deal of credit in this remote department, especially in the
district of Argeles, with populations which knew nothing about the
"Mountain." In 1805, the electors presented him as a candidate for the
legislative body and the senate; in 1815, they elected him deputy.]

[Footnote 2117: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc),
chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893. I.,
158. At the time the concordat was under consideration the aversion to
"priest rule" was very great in the army; there were secret meetings
held against it. Many of the superior officers took part in them, and
even some of the leading generals. Moreau was aware of them although he
did not attend them. In one of these gatherings, things were carried far
enough to resolve upon the assassination of the first consul. A certain
Donnadieu, then of a low rank in the army, offered to strike the blow.
General Oudinot, who was present, informed Davoust, and Donnadieu,
imprisoned in the Temple, made revelations. Measures were at once taken
to scatter the conspirators, who were all sent away more or less farther
off; some were arrested and others exiled, among them General Mounier,
who had commanded one of Desaix's brigades at Marengo. General Lecourbe
was also one of the conspirators.]

[Footnote 2118: On the 18th Fructidor Napoleon used grape-shot and
artillery to sweep the royalists off the streets of Paris. (SR.)]

[Footnote 2119: "Extrait des Memoires de Boulay de la Meurthe," p.10.]

[Footnote 2120: Napoleon's words. ("Correspondance," XXX., 343, memoirs
dictated at Saint Helena.)]

[Footnote 2121: Lafayette, "Memoires," II., 192.]

[Footnote 2122: Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil
d'etat," p. 63 "The senate is mistaken