Volume 5 (of 6) 34/64 55)--Madame Campan, "Memoires," I., 291, 292.] [Footnote 3209: "The Revolution," II., 151, and III., 500. II. the destinies of France depended solely on the character, measures and conscience of him who had been clothed with this accidental dictatorship--beginning with that day, public affairs, that is to stay the State, was myself... I was the keystone of an entirely new building and how slight the foundation! Its destiny depended on each of my battles. |