. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. want clothes, equipment,and drilling, say you. What poor reasons you give me there, Augereau !I have destroyed eighty thousand enemies with conscripts havingnothing but knapsacks! The National Guards, say you, are have four thousand here, in round hats, without knapsacks, in woodenshoes, but with good muskets, and I get a great deal out of is no money, you continue; and where do you hope to drawmoney from? You want wagons; take them wherever you can. Youhave no magazines ; this is too ridiculous. I order you, twelve hours afterthe receptio
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. want clothes, equipment,and drilling, say you. What poor reasons you give me there, Augereau !I have destroyed eighty thousand enemies with conscripts havingnothing but knapsacks! The National Guards, say you, are have four thousand here, in round hats, without knapsacks, in woodenshoes, but with good muskets, and I get a great deal out of is no money, you continue; and where do you hope to drawmoney from? You want wagons; take them wherever you can. Youhave no magazines ; this is too ridiculous. I order you, twelve hours afterthe reception of this letter, to take the field. If you are still Augereauof Castiglione, keep the command; but if your sixty years weigh uponjou, hand over the command to your senior general. The countryis in danger, and can be saved by boldness and good will alone. Napoleon. The terror and apathy of Paris exasperated him beyondmeasure. To his great disgust, the court and some of thecounsellors had taken to public prayers for his safety. I. B^P^MBBj^ ^ •lii. ~sfe ^^ /|w W>- 7^^^?^- i^a ^ M ^ i^^y • Si iM I8I4. Etched by Ruet, after Meissonier. Original in Walterss gallery, was fond of short titles, and very often in his historical works madechoice of only a simple date. Among such titles are 1806, 1807, 1814, whichmight very well be replaced by Battle of Jena, Friedland, and Campaign ofFrance. This last subject he treated twice under different aspects. First, inthe famous canvas, his great masterpiece, where we see a gloomy, silent Na-poleon, with face contracted by anguish, slowly riding at the head of his dis-couraged staff across the snowy plains of Champagne. This important workforms part of the collection of Monsieur Chauchard of Paris, who boughtit for eight hundred thousand francs. The second picture is the one repro-duced here, in which Napoleon is represented at the same period, but onlyat the outset of this terrible campaign—the last act but one of
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