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. . The government knows no party; a royalist is placed along with a
determined republican, each being, so to say, neutralized by the
other. The First Consul, more a King than Louis XIV., has called the
ablest men to his councils without caring what they were." - Anne
Plumptre, "A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France from 1802
to 1805," I., 326, 329. "The class denominated the people is most
certainly, taking it in the aggregate, favorably disposed to
Bonaparte. Any tale of distress from the Revolution was among this
class always ended with this, 'but now, we are quiet, thanks to God
and to Bonaparte.'" - Mallet-Dupan, with his accustomed perspicacity,
("Mercure Britainnique," Nos. for November 25 and December 10, 1799),
at once comprehended the character and harmony of this last
revolution. "The possible domination of the Jacobins chilled all ages
and most conditions. . . . Is that nothing, to be preserved, even
for one year, against the ravages of a faction, under whose empire
nobody can sleep tranquilly, and find that faction driven from all
places of authority just at a time when everybody feared its second
outburst, with its torches, its assassins, its assessors, and its
agrarian laws, over the whole French territory?.
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