. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. it with joy fires, and from wall to wall rang thecries of Vive la repuhliqueI Vive le premier consul! ViveVarmee! The campaign against the Austrians was finished De-cember 3, 1800, by the battle of Hohenlinden, won by Mo-reau, and in February the treaty of Luneville establishedpeace. England was slower in coming to terms, it not beingtintil March, 1802, that she signed the treaty of Amiens. At last France was at peace with all the world. Shehailed Napoleon as her savior, and ordered that the i8thBrumaire be celebrated throughout the republic as a solemnfete in
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. it with joy fires, and from wall to wall rang thecries of Vive la repuhliqueI Vive le premier consul! ViveVarmee! The campaign against the Austrians was finished De-cember 3, 1800, by the battle of Hohenlinden, won by Mo-reau, and in February the treaty of Luneville establishedpeace. England was slower in coming to terms, it not beingtintil March, 1802, that she signed the treaty of Amiens. At last France was at peace with all the world. Shehailed Napoleon as her savior, and ordered that the i8thBrumaire be celebrated throughout the republic as a solemnfete in his honor. The country saw in him something greater than a peace-maker. She was discovering that he was to be her law giver,for, while ending the wars, he had begun to bring order intothe interior chaos which had so long tormented the Frenchpeople, to reestablish the finances, the laws, the industries,to restore public works, to encourage the arts and sciences,even to harmonize the interests of rich and poor, of churchand lucien bonaparte^ president of the council of the five hundred,i8th brumaire, 1799. 104 CHAPTER VII NAPOLEON AS STATESMAN AND LAWGIVER THE FINANCES THE INDUSTRIES THE PUBLIC WORKS ** 1\ T OW we must rebuild, and, moreover, we must re-^ build solidly, said Napoleon to his brother Lucienthe day after the coup detat which had over-thrown the Directory and made him the temporary Dictatorof France. The first necessity was a new constitution. In ten yearsthree constitutions had been framed and adopted, and nowthe third had, like its predecessors, been declared Napoleons side was a man who had the draft of a con-stitution ready in his pocket. It had been promised him that,if he would aid in the i8th Brumaire, this instrument shouldbe adopted. This man was the Abbe Sieyes. He had beena prominent member of the Constituent Assembly, but,curiously enough, his fame there had been founded more onhis silence and the air of mystery in which he envelopedh
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