They were supplied from the hackney coach-stands, and slips of paper of the same color as the carriages were pasted over their numbers.
The carriage of the First Consul alone was harnessed with six white horses, but as the three consuls were in the same carriage, Bonaparte and Cambaceres on the front seat, and Lebrun on the back, it was, after all, but two horses apiece.

Besides, were not these six white horses given to the commander-in-chief by the Emperor Francis himself, after the treaty of Campo-Formio, a trophy in themselves?
The carriage crossed a part of Paris, following the Rue de Thionville, the Quai Voltaire, and the Pont-Royal.

From the archway of the Carrousel to the great portal of the Tuileries the Consular guard lined the way.
As Bonaparte passed through the archway, he raised his head and read the inscription it bore.

That inscription was as follows: AUGUST 10, 1792.
ROYALTY IS ABOLISHED IN FRANCE AND SHALL NEVER RISE AGAIN.
An almost imperceptible smile flickered on the First Consul's lips.
At the door of the Tuileries, Bonaparte left the carriage and sprang into the saddle to review the troops.

When he appeared on his war-horse the applause burst forth wildly on all sides.
After the review was over, he placed himself in front of the clock-tower, with Murat on his right, Lannes at his left, and the glorious staff of the Army of Italy behind him.