. The boys' life of Lafayette . rejoice in allmy obligations to you, citizen-general, and inthe happy conviction that to cherish your gloryand to wish vour success is an act of civism */ as much as of attachment and gratitude. Friends procured the exile a passport andhe returned to Paris. But Bonaparte was notglad to have him come back; the First Consulwas in reality no friend of the principles of theRevolution, and he felt that such a man asLafayette must inevitably oppose him andmight even prejudice the people against showed his anger unreservedly whenfriends told him of Lafayettes ar
. The boys' life of Lafayette . rejoice in allmy obligations to you, citizen-general, and inthe happy conviction that to cherish your gloryand to wish vour success is an act of civism */ as much as of attachment and gratitude. Friends procured the exile a passport andhe returned to Paris. But Bonaparte was notglad to have him come back; the First Consulwas in reality no friend of the principles of theRevolution, and he felt that such a man asLafayette must inevitably oppose him andmight even prejudice the people against showed his anger unreservedly whenfriends told him of Lafayettes arrival, andthe friends immediately advised the latter thathe had better return to the Netherlands. ButLafayette, having made up his mind to come,would not budge now. You should be suf-ficiently acquainted with me, he said to themen who brought him the news from the FirstConsul, to know that this imperious andmenacing tone would suffice to confirm me inthe course which I have taken. And headded, It would be very amusing for me to. LAFAYETTE FOR YOUNG AMERICANS 307 be arrested at night by the National Guard ofParis and imprisoned in the Temple the nextday by the restorer of the principles of 1789. Madame Lafayette called on the First Con-sul, who received her kindly. She pleaded soeloquently for her husband, pointing out hisnatural desire to be in France, that Napoleonsanger vanished. He said that he regrettedLafayettes return only because it would re-tard his progress toward the reestablishmentof Lafayettes principles, and would force himto take in sail. You do not understand me,madame, he continued, but General Lafay-ette will understand me; and not having beenin the midst of affairs, he will feel that I canjudge better than he. I therefore conjure himto avoid all publicity; I leave it to his patriot-ism. Madame Lafayette answered that thatwas her husbands wish. Believing that Lafayette had no desire tooppose him, Napoleon soon restored him tocitizenship. Different as the two me
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