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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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He was later made minister of police (1810-1814) and elevated Duke of Rovigo by Napoleon.

SR.)] [Footnote 3143: Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la revolution francaise" and "Dix ans d'exil." Exile of Madame de Balbi, of Madame de Chevreuse, of Madame de Duras, of Madame d'Aveaux, of Madame de Stael, of Madame de Recamier, etc .-- Duc de Rovigo, Ibid., IV., 389: "The first exiles dated from 1805; I think there were fourteen."] [Footnote 3144: Roederer, III., 472.

(Report on the Senatorerie of Caen, 1803.) The nobles "have no social relations either with citizens or with the public functionaries, except with the prefect of Caen and the general in command....

Their association with the prefect intimates their belief that they might need him.

All pay their respects to the general of division; his mantelpiece is strewed with visiting-cards."] [Footnote 3145: Madame de la Rochejaquelein, "Memoires," 423: "We lived exposed to a tyranny which left us neither calm nor contentment.


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