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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER VIII
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Before day all the bridges and principal places were planted with cannon.

At daybreak the halls of the councils were surrounded, the guards of the councils were amicably mingled with our troops, and the members, of whom I send you a list, were arrested and conveyed to the Temple.

The greater number have escaped, and are being pursued.

Carnot has disappeared.' -- [In 1824 Louis XVIII.

sent letters of nobility to those members of the two councils who were, as it was termed, 'fructidorized'.
-- Bourrienne]-- Paris is tranquil, and every one is astounded at an event which promised to be awful, but which has passed over like a fete.
The stout patriots of the faubourgs proclaim the safety of the Republic, and the black collars are put down.


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