. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rev. and enl. with portraits. i84 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE [1800 shorter than the oblique. The great art of battle isduring the action to change the line of operations: myown idea, entirely new. That made me the victor atMarengo: the enemy moved against my line of opera-tions to cut it; I had changed it and he then found him-self cut off. Throughout his absence from Paris, Bonapartes mindwas almost as much absorbed in home as in foreign correspondence, packed as it is with details, givesonly a faint idea of the multiplicity of his cares in regardto his f
. The life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Rev. and enl. with portraits. i84 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE [1800 shorter than the oblique. The great art of battle isduring the action to change the line of operations: myown idea, entirely new. That made me the victor atMarengo: the enemy moved against my line of opera-tions to cut it; I had changed it and he then found him-self cut off. Throughout his absence from Paris, Bonapartes mindwas almost as much absorbed in home as in foreign correspondence, packed as it is with details, givesonly a faint idea of the multiplicity of his cares in regardto his family, the army, and the nation. The capitalwas full of conspiracies, machinations, complots, andintrigues: it could not be otherwise, and he felt it. Therewere the British and the Chouans combining to rekindlethe flames of civil war, and rid the earth of the man whowould not restore the Bourbons. The Institute wasembroiled over the restoration of the Fructidorians ithad expelled. There was Fouche to be cajoled andbribed with promises, if only the poKce would
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