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CHANGE OF RESIDENCE.
That same day, the First Consul, left alone with Bourrienne, dictated the following order, addressed to the Consulate guard and to the army at large: Washington is dead! That great man fought against tyranny.

He consolidated the liberty of America.

His memory will ever be dear to the French people, to all free men in both hemispheres, but especially to the French soldiers, who, like Washington and his soldiers, have fought for Liberty and Equality.

Consequently, the First Consul orders that the flags and banners of the Republic shall be hung with crape for ten days.
But the First Consul did not intend to confine himself to this order of the day.
Among the means he took to facilitate his removal from the Luxembourg to the Tuileries was one of those fetes by which he knew, none better, how to amuse the eyes and also direct the minds of the spectator.