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[ "Corréspondance de Napoléon," letters to M. de Champagny, Dec.13, 1805, and Jan. 3, 1806. "I see with pleasure the promise made by M. de Lalande and what passed on that occasion.">[
6240 ([return])
[ De Ségur, "Mémoires," III., 457.—"M. de Chateaubriand composed his address with a good deal of skill; he evidently did not wish to offend any of his colleagues without even excepting Napoleon. He lauded with great eloquence the fame of the Emperor and exalted the grandeur of republican sentiments." In explanation of and excusing his silence and omissions regarding his regicide predecessor, he likened Chénier to Milton and remarked that, for forty years, the same silence had been observed in England with reference to Milton.]
6241 ([return])
[ Edmond Leblanc, "Napoléon 1ere et ses institutions civiles eL administratives," pp. 225-233.—Annuaire de l'Institut for 1813]
6242 ([return])
[ Law of Oct. 25, 1795, and act of Jan. 23, 1803.]
6243 ([return])
[ Roederer, III., 548.—Id., III., 332 (Aug. 2, 1801).]