That event postponed, if it did not render impossible, the advent of civil war in France; and, like Pride's Purge in our civil strifes, it installed in power a Government which represented the feelings of the army and of its chief.

Moreover, it rid him of the presence of Clarke, his former colleague in the negotiations, whose relations with Carnot aroused the suspicions of Barras and led to his recall.

Bonaparte was now the sole plenipotentiary of France.

The final negotiations with Austria and the resulting treaty of Campo Formio may therefore be considered as almost entirely his handiwork.
And yet, at this very time, the head of the Foreign Office at Paris was a man destined to achieve the greatest diplomatic reputation of the age.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand seemed destined for the task of uniting the society of the old _regime_ with the France of the Revolution.