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[ Sénatus-consulte of Thermidor 16, year X.]
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[ Decree of May 13, 1806, title III., article 32.]
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[ Thibaudeau, ibid., 294 (Speech of the First Consul to the Council of State, Thermidor 16, year X). "What has become of the men of the Revolution? Once out of place, they have been entirely neglected: they have nothing left; they have no support, no natural refuge. Look at Barras, Reubell, etc." The electoral colleges are to furnish them with the asylum they lack. "Now is the time to elect the largest number of men of the Revolution; the longer we wait, the fewer there will be.... With the exception of some of them, who have appeared on a grand stage,... who have signed some treaty of peace... the rest are all isolated and in obscurity. That is an important gap which must be filled up.... It is for this reason that I have instituted the Legion of Honor.">[
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[ Baron de Vitrolles, "Memoires," preface, XXI. Comte de Villèle, "Memoires et Correspondance," I., 189 (August, 1807).]
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[ Faber, "Notice sur l'intérieur de la France" (1807), p.25.]