What passed between them?
What compact was signed?
What promises were made?
No one has ever known.
Only, when Bonaparte returned to the salon alone, and Lucien asked him: "Well, what of Moreau ?" he answered: "Just as I foresaw; he prefers military power to political power.

I have promised him the command of an army." Bonaparte smiled as he pronounced these words; then added, "In the meantime--" "In the meantime ?" questioned Lucien.
"He will have that of the Luxembourg.

I am not sorry to make him the jailer of the Directors, before I make him the conqueror of the Austrians." The next day the following appeared in the "Moniteur": PARIS, 17th Brumaire.

Bonaparte has presented Moreau with a magnificent Damascus sword set with precious stones which he brought from Egypt, the value of which is estimated at twelve thousand francs..