They carried 40,000 picked soldiers, and officers whose names were only inferior to that of the general-in-chief;--of the men, as well as of their leaders, the far greater part already accustomed to follow Napoleon, and to consider his presence as the pledge of victory.
[Footnote 21: A silversmith, who had given him credit when he set out to Italy for a dressing-case worth L50, was rewarded with all the business which the recommendation of his now illustrious debtor could bring to him; and, being clever in his trade, became ultimately, under the patronage of the imperial household, one of the wealthiest citizens of Paris.

A little hatter, and a cobbler, who had served Buonaparte when a subaltern, might have risen in the same manner, had their skill equalled the silversmith's.

Not even Napoleon's example could persuade the Parisians to wear ill-shaped hats and clumsy boots; but he, in his own person, adhered, to the last, to his original connection with these poor artisans.] [Footnote 22: The Directory broke off the negotiation in a most insolent manner, by ordering Lord Malmesbury to quit France within twenty-four hours: this they did in their exultation after the 18th Fructidor.] [Footnote 23: Before leaving Paris, Buonaparte ordered his secretary to prepare a camp library, of small volumes, arranged under the different heads of Science, Geography and Travels, History, Poetry, Romance, Politics.

The "works on Politics" are six in number: viz.

Montesquieu's _Spirit of Laws_, a compendium of Mythology, the Vedam, the Koran, and the Old and New Testaments--all in French.].