. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. dition, appears on the reverse side of this medallion, whichframes one of the mqst precious gems of Napoleonic iconogra-phy. I, Dutertre, made this drawing of the general-in-chieffrom nature, on board the vessel LOrient, during the crossingof the expedition to Egypt in the year VII. (sic) of the Repub-lic. A short time ago the drawing came into the possessionof the Versailles Museum. ii6 NAPOLEON AS A STATESMAN 117 sideration for the interest of France; the introduction intoFrance of merino sheep, etc. These form a treasure ofseveral thousand milHons which will
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. dition, appears on the reverse side of this medallion, whichframes one of the mqst precious gems of Napoleonic iconogra-phy. I, Dutertre, made this drawing of the general-in-chieffrom nature, on board the vessel LOrient, during the crossingof the expedition to Egypt in the year VII. (sic) of the Repub-lic. A short time ago the drawing came into the possessionof the Versailles Museum. ii6 NAPOLEON AS A STATESMAN 117 sideration for the interest of France; the introduction intoFrance of merino sheep, etc. These form a treasure ofseveral thousand milHons which will endure for ages. Napoleon himself looked on these achievements as hismost enduring monument. The allied powers cannottake from me hereafter, he told OMeara, the greatpublic works I have executed, the roads which I made overthe Alps, and the seas which I have united. They cannotplace their feet to improve where mine have not been cannot take from me the code of laws which I formed,and which will go down to MOREAUj ABOUT 180I. Engraved by Elizabeth G. Berlian, after Guerin. 118 CHAPTER VIII RETURN OF THE EMIGRES THE CONCORDAT LEGION OF HONOR CODE NAPOLEON BUT there were wounds in the French nation more pro-found than those caused by lack of credit, by neglectand corruption. The body which in 1789 made upFrance had, in the last ten years, been violently and hor-ribly wrenched asunder. One hundred and fifty thousandof the richest, most cultivated, and most capable of the popu-lation had been stripped of wealth and position, and hademigrated to foreign lands. Napoleon saw that if the emigres could be reconciled, heat once converted a powerful enemy into a zealous spite of the opposition of those who had made the Revo-lution and gained their positions through it, he accordedan amnesty to the emigres, which included the whole onehundred and fifty thousand, with the exception of about onethousand, and this number, it was arranged, should be re-duced t
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