Among these papers is a little production, entitled 'Le Souper de Beaucaire', the copies of which he bought up at considerable expense, and destroyed upon his attaining the Consulate.
This little pamphlet contains principles very opposite to those he wished to see established in 1800, a period when extravagant ideas of liberty were no longer the fashion, and when Bonaparte entered upon a system totally the reverse of those republican principles professed in 'Le Souper de Beaucaire.
-- [This is not, as Sir Walter says, a dialogue between Marat and a Federalist, but a conversation between a military officer, a native of Nismes, a native of Marseilles, and a manufacturer from Montpellier.

The latter, though he takes a share in the conversation, does not say much.

'Le Souper de Beaucaire' is given at full length in the French edition of these Memoirs, tome i.

pp.
319-347; and by Iung, tome ii.p.354, with the following remarks: "The first edition of 'Le Souper de Beaucaire' was issued at the cost of the Public Treasury, in August 1798.

Sabin Tournal, its editor, also then edited the 'Courrier d'Avignon'.