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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER II
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443-457.

Both, in opposition to Bourrienne, attribute the arrest to his connection with the younger Robespierre.
Apparently Albitte and Salicetti wets not acquainted with the secret plan of campaign prepared by the younger Robespierre and by Bonaparte, or with the real instructions given for the mission to Genoa.

Jealousy between the representatives in the staff of the army of the Alps and those with the army of Italy, with which Napoleon was, also played a part in the affair.

Iung looks on Salicetti as acting as the protector of the Bonapartes; but Napoleon does not seem to have regarded him in that light; see the letter given in Tunot, vol.i.p.

106, where in 1795 he takes credit for not returning the ill done to him; see also the same volume, p.


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