And thus, where Feuillants, Girondins, and Jacobins had produced chaos, the practical man and his able helpers succeeded in weaving ineffaceable outlines.

As to the time when the change took place in Bonaparte's brain from Jacobinism to aims and methods that may be called conservative, we are strangely ignorant.
But the results of this mental change will stand forth clear and solid for many a generation in the customs, laws, and institutions of his adopted country.

If the Revolution, intellectually considered, began and ended with analysis, Napoleon's faculties supplied the needed synthesis.

Together they made modern France.
* * * * *.