4, 1802, put an end to notability by instituting electoral colleges...

The First Consul was really recognized as the grand-elector of the notability,"] [Footnote 4117: Any dictator or dictator's draftsman will, upon reading this understand how easy it is to make a sham constitution and sham electoral systems for a de facto dictatorship.( SR.)] [Footnote 4118: Thibaudeau, 72, 289 (words of the First Consul at a meeting of the Council of State, Thermidor 16, year X).] [Footnote 4119: Ibid., p.293.

Senatus-consulte of Thermidor 16, year X, and of Fructidor 19, year X.] [Footnote 4120: Decree of January 17, 1806, article 40.] [Footnote 4121: Aucoc, "Conference sur l'administration et le droit administratif," Sec.Sec.101, 162, 165.

In our legislative system the council of the arrondissement has not become a civil personality, while it has scarcely any other object than to apportion direct taxes among the communes of the arrondissement] [Footnote 4122: Senatus-consulte of Thermidor 16, year X.] [Footnote 4123: Decree of May 13, 1806, title III., article 32.] [Footnote 4124: Thibaudeau, ibid., 294 (Speech of the First Consul to the Council of State, Thermidor 16, year X).

"What has become of the men of the Revolution?
Once out of place, they have been entirely neglected: they have nothing left; they have no support, no natural refuge.