Measures were at once taken to scatter the conspirators, who were all sent away more or less farther off; some were arrested and others exiled, among them General Mounier, who had commanded one of Desaix's brigades at Marengo.

General Lecourbe was also one of the conspirators.] [Footnote 2118: On the 18th Fructidor Napoleon used grape-shot and artillery to sweep the royalists off the streets of Paris.

(SR.)] [Footnote 2119: "Extrait des Memoires de Boulay de la Meurthe," p.10.] [Footnote 2120: Napoleon's words.

("Correspondance," XXX., 343, memoirs dictated at Saint Helena.)] [Footnote 2121: Lafayette, "Memoires," II., 192.] [Footnote 2122: Pelet de la Lozere, "Opinions de Napoleon au conseil d'etat," p.

63 "The senate is mistaken if it thinks it possesses a national and representative chamber.