[102] De Cassagnac, “Histoire du Directoire.”
[103] A slang word of the time for aristocrat, dandy, élégant.
[104] It was six weeks before the 9th Thermidor, the day of deliverance, that these restrictions and hardships were increased.
[105] The story of this supper is given in “A Leader of Society at Napoleon’s Court” (Bearne), and in the Memoirs of La Harpe, the Comtesse d’Adhémar, and others who were present at it.
[106] “Prisons de Paris” (Dauban).
[107] “Mémoires sur les Prisons.”
CHAPTER VI
“Robespierre is dead!”— Notre Dame de Thermidor—End of the Terror—The prisons open—Decline of Tallien’s power—Barras—Napoleon—“Notre Dame de Septembre!”—M. Ouvrard—Separates from Tallien—He goes to Egypt—Consul in Spain—Dies in Paris—Térèzia stays in Paris—Ingratitude of some she had saved—Marries the Prince de Chimay—Conclusion.