The account of the affair which was published announces that Barras was, on that very day, Commander-in-chief of the Army of the Interior, and Bonaparte second in command.

Bonaparte drew up that account.

The whole of the manuscript was in his handwriting, and it exhibits all the peculiarity of his style and orthography.

He sent me a copy.
Those who read the bulletin of the 13th Vendemiaire, cannot fail to observe the care which Bonaparte took to cast the reproach of shedding the first blood on the men he calls rebels.

He made a great point of representing his adversaries as the aggressors.