Law and order were established.

A delighted Directory yielded at once to the suggestion of a campaign against Austria which should be conducted in Italy, in combination with an advance upon Vienna from the Rhine.
With the instinct of genius, Napoleon Bonaparte saw the path to power.
The air was vibrating with the word _Liberty_.

If he would capture France--which was what he intended to do--he must move along the line of political freedom.

The note to be struck was the liberation of the oppressed.

Where would he find chains more galling, more unnatural, than in Italy, held by the iron hand of Austria?
And was not Austria the leader of the coalition against France?
Without money or supplies, and with an unclothed army, he obeyed the inspiration, audaciously planning to make the invaded country pay the expenses of the war waged against it.