Bonaparte and the consulate . ight others,and damaged forty-six of the neighbouring houses. The FirstConsul continued his course, and arrived at the Creation was being performed that evening; atabout the twentieth bar of the opening chorus the performancewas interrupted by the noise of the explosion. When the FirstConsul a moment later entered his box, the news of whathad happened spread rapidly throughout the theatre, causinguniversal alarm and confusion ; but the calmness of the FirstConsul soon reassured the audience, and the oratorio wasresumed. Suspicion fell immediately on t
Bonaparte and the consulate . ight others,and damaged forty-six of the neighbouring houses. The FirstConsul continued his course, and arrived at the Creation was being performed that evening; atabout the twentieth bar of the opening chorus the performancewas interrupted by the noise of the explosion. When the FirstConsul a moment later entered his box, the news of whathad happened spread rapidly throughout the theatre, causinguniversal alarm and confusion ; but the calmness of the FirstConsul soon reassured the audience, and the oratorio wasresumed. Suspicion fell immediately on the Jacobins, to whomthe authorities at once imputed the crime. Police reports ofsix weeks earlier were published, in which a dozen Jacobins or Men of September were named as dangerous, notably a certainChevalier in whose possession had been found an infernalmachine designed to be placed on a cart and exploded by acollision. Nothing more was needed to excite the publicfury against these men, although they had been arrested and. o s CRIME OF THE 3 NIVOSE, AN. IX 51 confined in the Temple some weeks before this crime wascommitted. On the 4 Nivose (25th December 1800) deputations from theCouncil of State, the Senate, the Corps Législatif, and theTribunat waited on the First Consul at the Tuileries to con-gratulate him on his escape, and to demand the sternest measuresagainst the criminals. Boulay de la Meurthe, speaking in the name of the Councilof State, said : It is time to satisfy the will of the nation, andto take all the measures necessary for the maintenance ofpublic order. The Prefect of the Seine, at the head of the Mayors andGeneral Council of the Department also came to congratulatethe First Consul. In your person, he said, we have learnedto respect the great Magistrate whom neither power nor flatteryhave been able to mislead. He attributed the crime to the Men of September. Replying to the Mayors, Bonaparte said : So long as this handful of conspirators were content to
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