Bonaparte and the consulate . r diplo-matists to promote revolutionary schemes within their territories. After the Restoration in 1S14 he became Prefect of the Department of the Aube, butwas shortly afterwards removed from the post. During the Hundred Days he was raised to the Emperors House of Peers, but onthe second restoration of the Bourbons he fell upon evil days, and lived in retirementuntil 1830, when he was restored to the House of Peers and to a seat in the AcadémieFrançaise. He died in December 1835, at the age of 81. Mallet du Pans judgment is harsh, but perhaps not undeserved : He
Bonaparte and the consulate . r diplo-matists to promote revolutionary schemes within their territories. After the Restoration in 1S14 he became Prefect of the Department of the Aube, butwas shortly afterwards removed from the post. During the Hundred Days he was raised to the Emperors House of Peers, but onthe second restoration of the Bourbons he fell upon evil days, and lived in retirementuntil 1830, when he was restored to the House of Peers and to a seat in the AcadémieFrançaise. He died in December 1835, at the age of 81. Mallet du Pans judgment is harsh, but perhaps not undeserved : He tuidulated(serpenté) through the contests and parties of the time with a sinuous clevernesswhich had expedients of its own in reserve for every occasion. Thibaudeaus note.—The Third Consul Lebrun gained this reputation under theMaupeou ministry, and no doubt deserved it, but he took no part in the discussion onthe Civil Code or in drafting it. Each Councillor himself drafted the clauses forwhich he was responsible. 1^ r^. DISCUSSIONS ON THE CIVIL CODE 173 We are told that in Rome Ambassadors have these is a sort of capital of the world ; we can make no compari-sons with, or derive no precedents from what takes place there. According to the official report, the discussion in theCouncil on the article Adoption did not begin until the 27Brumaire, an. XI. (i8th November 1802). In reality it openedduring the sessions of the 6, 14, and 16 Frimaire, an. X.(November and December 1801), but the debates were un-reported. The First Consul took a leading part in this debate,raising it to a higher plane than that on which it was at first con-sidered. In view of the importance which he attached to aninstitution which had so few partisans, and the serious way inwhich he spoke of it, it is difficult not to believe that he had inhis mind the possibility of using it for purposes of State proceedings began by a report from Berlier on the establish-ment of
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