[Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte CHAPTER III 38/43
The wife of a representative had been arrested there.
General Duvigier was ordered to proceed along the Boulevard as far as the Rue Poissonniere.
General Beruyer took up a position at the Place Victoire, and General Bonaparte occupied the Pont-au-Change. "The Section of Brutus was surrounded, and the troops advanced upon the Place de Greve, where the crowd poured in from the Isle St.Louis, from the Theatre Francais, and from the Palace.
Everywhere the patriots had regained their courage, while the poniards of the emigrants, armed against us, had disappeared.
The people universally admitted their error. "The next day the two Sections of Les Pelletier and the Theatre Francais were disarmed." The result of this petty civil war brought Bonaparte forward; but the party he defeated at that period never pardoned him for the past, and that which he supported dreaded him in the future.
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