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all in their turn entertained this primitive and simple idea of reforming abuses in a state, and changing, by the

application of military force, moncler jackets an unpopular

dynasty, 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, 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,
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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, 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

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Vest 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, Montholon, t. iv. p. . " I spent

the night of the th in beholding the prepara Moncler Jackets Womenfor 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
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