She sprang to meet him in such agitation that she was unable to utter a single word.
"Come, come!" said Bonaparte, becoming the kindly man he was in his own home, "calm yourself.

We have done to-day all that could be done." "Is it all over ?" "Oh, no!" replied Bonaparte.
"Must it be done all over again to-morrow ?" "Yes, but to-morrow it will be merely a formality." That formality was rather rough; but every one knows of the events at Saint-Cloud.

We will, therefore, dispense with relating them, and turn at once to the result, impatient as we are to get back to the real subject of our drama, from which the grand historical figure we have introduced diverted us for an instant.
One word more.

The 20th Brumaire, at one o'clock in the morning, Bonaparte was appointed First Consul for ten years.

He himself selected Cambaceres and Lebrun as his associates under the title of Second Consuls, being firmly resolved this time to concentrate in his own person, not only all the functions of the two consuls, but those of the ministers.
The 20th Brumaire he slept at the Luxembourg in president Gohier's bed, the latter having been liberated with his colleague Moulins.
Roland was made governor of the Luxembourg..