To defend the Directory was, he conceived, to defend his own future fortune; that is to say, it was protecting a power which appeared to have no other object than to keep a place for him until his return.
The parties which rose up in Paris produced a reaction in the army.

The employment of the word 'Monsieur' had occasioned quarrels, and even bloodshed.

General Augereau, in whose division these contests had taken place, published an order of the day, setting forth that every individual in his division who should use the word 'Monsieur', either verbally or in writing, under any pretence whatever, should be deprived of his rank, and declared incapable of serving in the Republican armies.

This order was read at the head of each company.
Bonaparte viewed the establishment of peace as the close of his military career.

Repose and inactivity were to him unbearable.