. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . NatOLEon addressing rHE IrOOIS hefore IHE Battle of the Pyramids, 1798-. THK TIIRKK COXSLLS. Le BrUN. Delarorhes Trcsor tie Numismatique. VOL. I. X BRUMAIEE 215, his subsequent action had been that of a moderate, andhis knowledge of legal affairs was likely to be of the high-est service to Bonaparte, who intrusted him with a gen-eral oversight of legislation. His tact was seen in hisrefusal to take up his abode in the Tuileries, lest, as he|remarked to Lebrun, he might have


. The life of Napoleon I, including new materials from the British official records . NatOLEon addressing rHE IrOOIS hefore IHE Battle of the Pyramids, 1798-. THK TIIRKK COXSLLS. Le BrUN. Delarorhes Trcsor tie Numismatique. VOL. I. X BRUMAIEE 215, his subsequent action had been that of a moderate, andhis knowledge of legal affairs was likely to be of the high-est service to Bonaparte, who intrusted him with a gen-eral oversight of legislation. His tact was seen in hisrefusal to take up his abode in the Tuileries, lest, as he|remarked to Lebrun, he might have to move out againsoon. The third Consul, Lebrun, was a moderate with,leanings towards constitutional royalty. He was to proveanother useful satellite to Bonaparte, who intrusted himwith the general oversight of finance and regarded himas a connecting link with the moderate royalists. Thechief secretary to the Consuls was Maret, a trusty politi-cal agent, who had striven for peace with England bothin 1793 and in 1797. As for the Ministers, they were now reinforced by*Talleyrand, who took up that of Foreign Affairs, and by;Berthier, who brought his powe


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