Footnote 54: Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, II, 246.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 55: This important exploit has been questioned. But see the American edition of Martin's History of France, II, 16. Babœuf reopened at the Panthéon the club which had been closed at the Évêché by the Convention and reorganized a secret society in connection with it. This Panthéon club was shut by Napoleon in person on February 26, 1796. See likewise the Mémorial, II, 257, 258.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 56: The best references for the history of Josephine de Beauharnais are Masson: Joséphine de Beauharnais, 1763-1796, and Joséphine, impératrice et reine; Hall: Napoleon's letters to Josephine; Lévy: Napoléon intime; together with the memoirs of Joseph, Bourrienne, Ducrest, Dufort de Cheverney, and Rémusat.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 57: See Hochschild: Désirée, reine de Suède.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 58: The authorities for this chapter are as for the last.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 59: See Pulitzer: Une idylle sous Napoléon I.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 60: Mémorial, II, 258; III, 402.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 61: Given in Aubenas: Histoire de l'impératrice Joséphine, I, 293. This writer is frankly not an historian but an apologist.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 62: Coston: Premières années de Napoléon Bonaparte.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 63: Carnot thoroughly understood and appreciated the genius shown in Buonaparte's plan for an Italian campaign, and converted the Directorate to his opinion. They sent a copy to Schérer, then in command at Nice, and he returned it in a temper, declaring that the man who made such a plan had better come and work it. The Directory took him at his word.[Back to Main Text]