CHAPTER III.
1794-1795.
Proposal to send Bonaparte to La Vendee--He is struck off the list of general officers--Salicetti--Joseph's marriage with Mademoiselle Clary--Bonaparte's wish to go to Turkey--Note explaining the plan of his proposed expedition--Madame Bourrienne's character of Bonaparte, and account of her husband's arrest--Constitution of the year III-- The 13th Vendemiaire--Bonaparte appointed second in command of the army of the interior--Eulogium of Bonaparte by Barras, and its consequences--St.Helena manuscript.
General Bonaparte returned to Paris, where I also arrived from Germany shortly after him.

Our intimacy was resumed, and he gave me an account of, all that had passed in the campaign of the south.

He frequently alluded to the persecutions he had suffered, and he delivered to me the packet of papers noticed in the last chapter, desiring me to communicate their contents to my friends.

He was very anxious, he said, to do away with the supposition that he was capable of betraying his country, and, under the pretence of a mission to Genoa, becoming a SPY on the interests of France.

He loved to talk over his military achievements at Toulon and in Italy.