all in their turn entertained this primitive and simple idea of reforming abuses in a state, and changing, by the application of military force, an unpopular dynasty,louboutin outlet or an obnoxious ministry.?It was not by distant menaces alone that Buonaparte served the Directory at this important crisis. He despatched Augereau to Paris, ostensibly for the purpose of presenting the standards taken at Mantua, but in reality to command the armed force which the majority of the Directory had determined to employ against their dissentient colleagues,cheap christian louboutin and the opponents of their measures in the national councils. Augereau was a blunt, bold, stupid soldier, a devoted Jacobin, whose principles??. augereau despatched to paris. ?were sufficiently well known to warrant his standing upon no constitutional delicacies. But in case the Directory failed, Buonaparte kept himself in readiness to march instantly to Lyons at the head of fifteen thousand men. There rallying the Republicans, and all who were attached to the Revolution, he would, according to his own wellchosen expression, like Csesar, have crossed the Rubicon at the head of the popular partyand ended, doubtless, like Caesar, by himself usurping the supreme command, which he pretended to assert in behalf of the people.?But Buonaparte's presence was not so essentially necessary to the support of the Directory as he might have expected, or as he perhaps hoped. They had military aid nearer at hand. Disregarding a fundamental law of the Constitution, discounted christian louboutin which declared that armed troops should not be brought within a certain distance of the Legislative Bodies, they moved towards Paris a part of General Hoche's army. The majority of the Councils becoming alarmed, prepared means of defence by summoning the national guards to arms. But Augereau allowed them no time. He marched to their place of meeting, at the head of a considerable armed force. The guards stationed? " The Directory requested General Buonaparte to send one of his generals of brigade to Paris, to await their orders. He chose General Augereau, a roan very decided in action, and not very capable of reasoningtwo qualities which rendered him an excellent instrument of despotism, provided the despotism assumed the name of revolution."Mad. de Stael,?christian louboutin on sale Montholon, t. iv. p. .? " I spent the night of the th in beholding the prepara?? .?for their protection, surprised or faithless, offered no resistance; and, proceeding as men possessed of the superior strength, the Directory treated their political opponents as state prisoners, arrested BarthelemyCarnot having fled to Genevaand made prisoners, in the hall of the intexmerry111011
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