"What was the force of that army ?" asked Bonaparte.--"Sixty thousand men."-- "Sixty thousand men!" he exclaimed: "they ought to have completely covered these mountains!"-- "The French fight better now," said Lannes, who was one of the officers of his suite.

"At that time," observed Bonaparte, interrupting him, "the Burgundians were not Frenchmen." Bonaparte's journey through Switzerland was not without utility; and his presence served to calm more than one inquietude.

He proceeded on his journey to Rastadt by Aix in Savoy, Berne, and Bale.

On arriving at Berne during night we passed through a double file of well-lighted equipages, filled with beautiful women, all of whom raised the cry of "Long live, Bonaparte!--long live the Pacificator!" To have a proper idea of this genuine enthusiasm it is necessary to have seen it.
The position in society to which his services had raised him rendered it unfit to address him in the second person singular and the familiar manner sometimes used by his old schoolfellows of Brienne.

I thought, this very natural.
M.de Cominges, one of those who went with him to the military school at Paris, and who had emigrated, was at Bale.