The blood which flowed ripened the seeds of the youthful General's ambition.

It must be admitted that the history of past ages presents few periods full of such extraordinary events as the years included between 1795 and 1815.

The man whose name serves, in some measure, as a recapitulation of all these great events was entitled to believe himself immortal.
Living retired at Sens since the month of July, I only learned what had occasioned the insurrection of the Sections from public report and the journals.

I cannot, therefore, say what part Bonaparte may have taken in the intrigues which preceded that day.

He was officially characterised only as secondary actor in the scene.