In power himself, titular
Director, counselor and guardian of the intelligent republic against
the stupid republic, he well knows that all of them, so long as they
are republicans of both bands, take a road without an issue.[143]
Barras is of the same opinion, and taking time by the forelock, turns
around and promises Louis XVIII. his co-operation in restoring the
legitimate monarchy in exchange he receives letters patent granting
him full pardon, exemption from all future prosecution and a promise
of twelve millions. -Si?y?s, more sagacious, seeks force where it
exists, in the army; he prepares Joubert, sounds Moreati, thinks of
Jourdan, of Bernadotte and of Macdonald, before surrendering himself
to Bonaparte; "he requires a sword." Boulay de la Meurthe, comparing
in a pamphlet the English revolution with the French revolution,
announces and brings on the establishment of a military protectorate.
- "The Constitution of the year III. will not work," said Baudin, one
of the Five Hundred, to Cornet, one of the Ancients, "only I do not
see where to find the executive arm." The Jacobin republic still
lives, and its servants, its doctors, already speak aloud of its
interment the same as strangers and heirs in the room of a dying man
who has become unconscious, like Tiberius when sinking in his palace
at Misene.
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