Then the first spark of lofty ambition gleamed out." On his aim and conduct in the Italian campaign of Sybel, "Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Revolution Francaise" (Dosquet translation), vol.IV., books II.

and III., especially pp.182, 199, 334, 335, 406, 420, 475, 489.] [Footnote 1130: Yung, III., 213.

(Letter of M.de Sucy, August 4, 1797.)] [Footnote 1131: Ibid., III., 214.

(Report of d'Entraigues to M.de Mowikinoff, Sept., 1797.) "If there was any king in France which was not himself, he would like to have been his creator, with his rights at the end of his sword, this sword never to be parted with, so that he might plunge it in the king's bosom if he ever ceased to be submissive to him."-- Miot de Melito, I., 154.

(Bonaparte to Montebello, before Miot and Melzi, June, 1797.) Ibid, I., 184.