Memoirs of Barras, Member of the Directorate

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Chenier and the verses of Camilla Jordan?M.de la Chabeaussiere ?Poems appropriate to the circumstances?Contract entered into in regard to the salt-works?Competition in contracts?The general opinion as to the law affecting the nobles?Plans of Sieyes in regard to Italy?Conditional ratification of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Chenier and the verses of Camilla Jordan?M.de la Chabeaussiere ?Poems appropriate to the circumstances?Contract entered into in regard to the salt-works?Competition in contracts?The general opinion as to the law affecting the nobles?Plans of Sieyes in regard to Italy?Conditional ratification of the treaty by Portugal?Firm attitude of the Directorate?Bonaparte com- mander-in-chief of the Army of England?Fouche's distress? Pen portrait of his wife and son ? Fouche as a dealer in pigs ?His lawsuit with Gerard ? I bring about a reconciliation? Fouche as a contractor? He asks payment for his services ?Danton's mot on the new order of things?Fouche alters its text to his advantage?Fouche's financial intrigues?M. Hain- guerlot?The Compagnie Dijon?Report made by Gibert Des- molieres as to the extortions of this company?Hainguerlot accused?His negotiations with Fouche ? Fouche's first tcu? His letter pleading for Hainguerlot?Talleyrand's enormous fortune?Treaty with the Emperor?Debate in the corps ttgislatif ?New parties formed in its bosom?Bonaparte President of the French Legation at Rastadt?Preparations for the Congress of Rastadt?Ridiculous posturing of the Minister Letourneur? Lambrecht's probity ? Scherer falls into disrepute?The philanthropist Duquesnoy ? What is a philanthropist? ? M. de Lameth's position ? A compromise in regard to the ostracism of Sieyes?Is the Constitution of the Year III. to be changed My cousin Lauragais?I am offered the supreme power. If the Royalists were daily gaining ground, they did not meet with as much approval as they expected from the masses. They were the object of much contempt and irony from all enlightened and literary people. Chenier was not the only one who, according to his opinions, ridiculed the halting verses of Camille J...