[149] "Les Cahiers du Capitaine Coignet," p.76. "And then we saw the
big gentlemen getting out of the windows. Mantles, caps and feathers
lay on the floor and the grenadiers ripped off the lace." - Ibid., 78,
Narration by the grenadier Chome: " The pigeons all flew out of the
window and we had the hall to ourselves."
[150] Dufort de Cheverney, " M?moires," September 1, 1800.
"Bonaparte, being fortunately placed at the head of the government,
advanced the Revolution more than fifty years; the cup of crimes was
full and overflowing. He cut off the seven hundred and fifty heads of
the hydra, concentrated power in his own hands, and prevented the
primary assemblies from sending us another third of fresh scoundrels
in the place of those about to take themselves off. . . . Since I
stopped writing things are so changed as to make revolutionary events
appear as if they had transpired more than twenty years ago. . . .
The people are no longer tormented on account of the decade, which is
no longer observed except by the authorities. . . . One can travel
about the country without a passport. . . . Subordination is
established among the troops; all the conscripts are coming back.
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