[Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte CHAPTER XI 17/25
It was also remarked that the judge of the peace of the arrondissement where the General lived having called on him on the 6th of December, the evening of his arrival, he returned the visit next morning.
These attentions, trifling as they may appear, were not without their effect on the minds of the Parisians. In consequence of General Bonaparte's victories, the peace he had effected, and the brilliant reception of which he had been the object, the business of Vendemiaire was in some measure forgotten.
Every one was eager to get a sight of the young hero whose career had commenced with so much 'eclat'.
He lived very retiredly, yet went often to the theatre. He desired me, one day, to go and request the representation of two of the best pieces of the time, in which Elleviou, Mesdames St.Aubin, Phillis, and other distinguished performers played.
His message was, that he only wished these two pieces on the same night, if that were possible.
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