The government is vastly indebted to you; it has nothing to give you....

I am going to lead you to the most fertile plains in the world; rich provinces, large cities will be in your power; you will then obtain honor, glory, and wealth."-- Proclamation of April 26, 1796:--"Friends, I guarantee that conquest to you!"-- Cf.

in Marmont's memoirs the way in which Bonaparte plays the part of tempter in offering Marmont, who refuses, an opportunity to rob a treasury chest.] [Footnote 1236: Miot de Melito, I., 154.

(June, 1797, in the gardens of Montebello.) "Such are substantially the most remarkable expressions in this long discourse which I have recorded and preserved."] [Footnote 1237: Miot de Melito, I.184.

(Conversation with Bonaparte, November 18, 1797, at Turin.) "I remained an hour with the general tete-a-tete.