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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER I
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(Bonaparte to Miot, Nov.

18, 1797, at Turin.)] [Footnote 1132: D'Haussonville, "L'Eglise Romaine et la Premier Empire," I., 405.

(Words of M.Cacault, signer of the Treaty of Tolentino, and French Secretary of Legation at Rome, at the commencement of negotiations for the Concordat.) M.Cacaut says that he used this expression, "After the scenes of Tolentino and of Leghorn, and the fright of Manfredini, and Matei threatened, and so many other vivacities."] [Footnote 1133: Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la Revolution Francaise," 3rd part, ch.XXVI., and 4th part, ch.

XVIII.] [Footnote 1134: Portrait of Bonaparte in the "Cabinet des Etampes," "drawn by Guerin, engraved by Fiesinger, deposited in the National Library, Vendemiaire 29, year VII."] [Footnote 1135: Madame de Remusat, "Memoires," I., 104 .-- Miot de Melito, I., 84.] [Footnote 1136: Madame de Stael, "Considerations," etc., 3rd part, ch.
XXV .-- Madame de Remusat, II., 77.] [Footnote 1137: Stendhal, "Memoires sur Napoleon," narration of Admiral Decres .-- Same narration in the "Memorial."] [Footnote 1138: De Segur, I., 193.] [Footnote 1139: Roederer, "Oeuvres completes," II., 560.

(Conversations with General Lasalle in 1809, and Lasalle's judgment on the debuts of Napoleon).] [Footnote 1140: Another instance of this commanding influence is found in the case of General Vandamme, an old revolutionary soldier still more brutal and energetic than Augereau.


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