The exiles they sent there the 18th of Fructidor pointed the way.
"I see with satisfaction," Bonaparte hastened to say, "that you have yielded to our wishes and those of your two colleagues." Gohier made a step forward and said firmly: "We yield neither to your wishes, nor to those of our two colleagues, who are no longer our colleagues, since they have resigned, but to the Law.

It requires that the decree transferring the legislative body to Saint-Cloud shall be proclaimed without delay.

We have come here to fulfil the duty which the law imposes on us, fully determined to defend it against all factious persons, whoever they may be, who attempt to attack it." "Your zeal does not astonish us," replied Bonaparte; "and because you are a man who loves his country you will unite with us." "Unite with you! And why ?" "To save the Republic." "To save the Republic! There was a time, general, when you had the honor to be its prop.

But to-day the glory of saving it is reserved for us." "You save it!" retorted Bonaparte.

"How will you do that?
With the means your Constitution gives you?
Why, that Constitution is crumbling on all sides, and even if I did not topple it over, it could not last eight days." "Ah!" cried Moulins, "at last you avow your hostile intentions." "My intentions are not hostile!" shouted Bonaparte, striking the floor with the heel of his boot.