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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER II
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He has often spoken to me of this circumstance, and I mention it here as one of importance to the history of the time.
Nothing that relates to a man like Napoleon can be considered useless or trivial.
"What, after all, was the result of this strange business which might have cost Bonaparte his head ?--for, had he been taken to Paris and tried by the Committee of Public Safety, there is little doubt that the friend of Robespierre the younger would have been condemned by Billaud-Varennes and Collot d'Herbois.

The result was the acquittal of the accused.

This result is the more extraordinary, since it would appear that at that time Salicetti stood in fear of the young general.

A compliment is even paid to Bonaparte in the decree, by which he was provisionally restored to liberty.

That liberation was said to be granted on the consideration that General Bonaparte might be useful to the Republic.


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