I.pp.574, 582.) (Articles by Mailet-Dupan, "Mercure de France," Dec.

30, 1791, and April 7, 1792.)--Napoleon, "Memorial" (Sept.

3, 1816), thinks so too and states the essential characteristic of the Revolution.

This consisted in "telling everybody who held office, every one who had a place or a fortune: 'Get out.'"] [Footnote 3320: Roederer, III., 534 (January 1809, on Normandy), "Children in every situation think of becoming soldiers to get the cross (legion of honor), and the cross secures the chevalier.

The desire of distinction, of passing ahead of some one else, is a national sentiment."] [Footnote 3321: "The Revolution," II., 248.