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1. 7. Z<? 18 Brumaire, précisément, on that very i8th of Brumaire (Nov. 9, 1799).

de Suisse... de chevaux... dih\QX\vdlioxxQ.s. See above, note to p. 60, 1. 16.

1. 10. sa terre de Grosbois, his estate at Grosbois, a village in the dept. of Seine et Oise. The Château, before belonging to Barras, had been the property of the count de Provence, brother of Louis XVI, and afterwards king under the name of Louis XVIIL

1. 21. pendant les cinq semaines. Bonaparte arrived in Paris on the i6th oi October.

1. 28. il avait fait dire à Sieyès...he had sent word to Sieyès. Sieyès vi^as so struck with Bonaparte's powers at this time that he said of him, "Il sait tout, il veut tout, et il peut tout."

1. 29. la constitution qu'il tenait dans un nuage. "Cette constitution modèle qu'il avait de longue main élaborée, qui devait rompre le flot de la démocratie en le divisant, et triompher des passions des hommes en les balançant et les contrepesant l'une par l'autre." (Sainte-Beuve.) "Sieyès, vv^ho, with a more profound, had a less sagacious intellect (than Talleyrand), imagined that after he, a man of letters, had handed over the state to a daring unscrupulous man of the world, he could govern that man. But M. de Talleyrand rather despised and underrated Sieyès, vi^hom he looked on as a tailor vfho was always making coats that never fitted — a skilful combiner of théories, but without any tact as to their application, and when some one, à propos of the new constitution, which Sieyès had undertaken to frame, said "Après tout, ce Sieyès a un esprit hxtn profond,'" he replied, "Profond! Hem! vous voulez dire peut-être creux." (Lord Dalling.)

mettre au jour, bring to light.