River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-22
Rnnanarte and Sieyes.

All Parle waited on B0napafte ana
flattered him; the Directors Gohier,
Roger Ducos, Moulinse, Fouche, the
agent of Barras Cambaceres, the Mini
ster of Justice: soldiers. such as Auge-
rean, Jourdan Bernadotte, who sus-
pected and had no reason to love him,
now yelled their hostility, whether from
policy or intrigue, and the soldiers who
had come with him from Egypt-Iannes,
Marmont, Murat-- gave briliance to his
receptions. Moreau, too, timid and re-
firing in civil dudgeon, was willing IN
such CAGE to rank as a follower of Bona
parte. He put himself at his rivals dis
posal, not asking as to his plans, and
even refusing to hear them, And this
attitude he preserved up to the last.
When, on the very eve OF the outbreak,
Bonaparte wished to explain his pro
iected measures, Moreau, as if afraid Of
the responsibility, interrupted him, say
ing that there was no necessity for
letting him into the secret; but he
was tired of the rule of pack
of lawyers, and put himself and his staff
at Bonaparte's disposal. One man only
avowed his hostility, but that was the
one man whose hostility was, to all
seeming, the most to be feared. 1t was
Sleeves. The two met at a dinner, where
Bonaparte simply ignored the powerful.
Director. Sieyes was furious, See,
he cried, "the insolence OF this fellow
toward the representative oil an author
ity that ought to have ordered him TO be
shot" Bonaparte, on his side, proposed
to his friends TO have Sieyes dismissed
from the Directorate and himself put in
instead. He proposed this to Gohier and
Moulins, and only gave up the idea OF
forcing himself, III constitutional man
ner. to the head of the government,
when he realized that his being under
the required age of 40 was an insuper-
allie constitutional objection. How
much of this hostility, SO
curiously open, SO plainly acknowl-
edged, was real, how much was feigned,
it is impossible to say; but amid such
a tangledmass of corruption, falsehood,
and intrigue it is permitted to suspect al
most anything. The received story is
that their common friends, Talleyrand,
Rpderer. and others seeing the force OF
a combination between the two, labored
to bring about reconciliation and aili-
ance. and succeeded to such an extent
that within few days from the time
when Sieyes spoke of having Bonaparte
shot for breach of military law, or Bon
aparte spoke of having Sieyes turned out
of office for reasonable intercourse with
Prussia, the two men were joined to-
eether in scheme to subyert the Con-
stitution, Bonaparte put himself at the
disposal of Sieyes, offered himself as the
military tool which Sieyes, had felt the
want of, and the alliance was concluded;
this was on Oct. 80. From that tine the
approaching revolution would seem TO
have been very open secret; the de-
tails of it were yelled, but the broad fact
was Familiarity talked OF. On Nov.
\ Brinkman wrote: aFor some days
back everybody is whispering of a
great coup d'etat which is supposed to
Be preparing at the Luxembourg. under
the auspices of Bonaparte. 1t is spoken
of as sort of 'fructidor," which Is to
exterminate the Jacobin party and to
strike its supporters even in the Direct
orv itself. The report of this project
makes very great Sc nsation, especially
among the Diplomatic body. 1t is neces-
sary to speak of this: for here, in Paris
the probability ofsuch thing is not to
be denied ON account of the utter Inco-
herenee of its details. ] will defer, how
ever, till the next courier, the honor OF
explaining 10 you more at length my
doubts as to the real nature of III Is new
con- piracy. concerning which trust
may meantime get some more q efinite
information. 1t IS very remarkable that
the boldest of the Jacobins, who In their
papers. are necessarily insulting the
Government, and Sieyes in particular,
have not vet ventured to say anything
against Bonaparte, in spite of the under ]
standing, said to exist between him and
the selfstvled moderate party in the
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