. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. to organizethe artillery did not receive his orders in time andremained on his station in the eastern Pyrenees untilafter the place fell. Manifestly some one was requiredto grasp the situation and supply a crying was with no trembling hand that Buoi ^parte laidhold of his task. For an efficient artillery serviceartillery officers were essential, and there were almostnone. In the ebb and flow of popular enthusiasm manyrepublicans who had fallen back before the storms offactional excesses were now willing to come forward,and Napoleon, not publicly comm
. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. to organizethe artillery did not receive his orders in time andremained on his station in the eastern Pyrenees untilafter the place fell. Manifestly some one was requiredto grasp the situation and supply a crying was with no trembling hand that Buoi ^parte laidhold of his task. For an efficient artillery serviceartillery officers were essential, and there were almostnone. In the ebb and flow of popular enthusiasm manyrepublicans who had fallen back before the storms offactional excesses were now willing to come forward,and Napoleon, not publicly committed to the Jacobins,was able to win many capable assistants from amongmen of his class. His nervous restlessness found anoutlet in erecting buttresses, mounting guns, and in-vigorating the whole service until a zealous activityof the most promising kind was displayed by officersand men alike. By September twenty-ninth fourteenguns were mounted and four mortars, the essentialmaterial was gathered, and by sheer self-assertion. Ill the collection of the Due de Trevise JOSEPHINE Fruiii a pastel by Pierre Prudhon ^T. 24] TOULON 227 Buonaparte was in complete charge. The only checkwas in the ignorant meddling of Carteaux, who, thoughenergetic and zealous, though born and bred in camp,being the son of a soldier, was, after all, not a soldier, buta very fair artist (painter). For his battle-pieces andportraits of military celebrities he had received largeprices, and was as vain of his artistic as of his militarytalent, though both were mediocre. Strange charactersrose to the top in those troublous times: the paintersopponent at Avignon, the leader of the insurgents, hadbeen a tailor; his successor was one Lapoype, a physi-cian. Buonapartes ready pen stood him again in goodstead, and he sent up a memorial to the ministry, explain-ing the situation, and asking for the appointment of anartillery general with full powers. The commissionerstransmitted the paper to Paris, and appointed the
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