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[ "Revue critique," ibid., pp.142, 146, 149.]
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[ Welschinger, ibid., p. 251.]
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[ "Corréspondance de Napoléon Iere." (Letter of the Emperor to Cambacérès, Nov.21, 1806.)—Letters to Fouché, Oct.25 and Dec. 31, 1806.)—Welschinger, ibid., pp.236, 244.]
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[ "Moniteur," Jan. I, 1806. (Tribunate, session of Nivôse 9, year XIV., speeches of MM. Albisson and Gillet.—Senate, speeches of MM. Pérignon, Garat, de Lacépède.)—In the following numbers we find municipal addresses, letters of bishops and the odes of poets in the same strain.—In the way of official enthusiasm take the following two fine examples. ("Debats," March 29, 1811.) "The Paris municipal council deliberated on the vote of a pension for life of 10,000 francs in favor of M. de Govers, His Majesty's second page, for bringing to the Hôtel de Ville the joyful news of the birth of the King of Rome.. .. Everybody was charmed with his grace and presence of mind."—Faber, "Notices sur l'intérieur de France," p.25. "I know of a tolerably large town which could not light its lamps in 1804, on account of having sent its mayor to Paris at the expense of the commune to see Bonaparte crowned.">[
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[ Taine here explains the method which was to be copied by all the totalitarian leaders of the 20th century, especially by the ever present communist-socialist-revolutionary organizations and their more or less hidden leaders. (SR.)]