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[ "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc), chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893. I., 158. At the time the concordat was under consideration the aversion to "priest rule" was very great in the army; there were secret meetings held against it. Many of the superior officers took part in them, and even some of the leading generals. Moreau was aware of them although he did not attend them. In one of these gatherings, things were carried far enough to resolve upon the assassination of the first consul. A certain Donnadieu, then of a low rank in the army, offered to strike the blow. General Oudinot, who was present, informed Davoust, and Donnadieu, imprisoned in the Temple, made revelations. Measures were at once taken to scatter the conspirators, who were all sent away more or less farther off; some were arrested and others exiled, among them General Mounier, who had commanded one of Desaix's brigades at Marengo. General Lecourbe was also one of the conspirators.]
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[ On the 18th Fructidor Napoléon used grape-shot and artillery to sweep the royalists off the streets of Paris. (SR.)]
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[ "Extrait des Mémoires de Boulay de la Meurthe," p.10.]
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[ Napoleon's words. ("Correspondance," XXX., 343, memoirs dictated at Saint Helena.)]
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[ Lafayette, "Mémoires," II., 192.]