. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . s of 1805 ; the lions share of all contribu-tions levied in foreign countries fell to the army; for its glorification andthat of its commanders triumphal arches were erected in Paris upon thePlace du Carrousel and the Place de IEtoile, the column of ^endönlewas cast from captured cannon, and the Dome des Invalides and other Vol. XVII.—4 50 TIIK WORLD EMPIRE. splendid edifices were built; of the domains which he acquired in Italy,Poland, and Hanover, lie divi<ledasumof 150,000,000 francs in the formof
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . s of 1805 ; the lions share of all contribu-tions levied in foreign countries fell to the army; for its glorification andthat of its commanders triumphal arches were erected in Paris upon thePlace du Carrousel and the Place de IEtoile, the column of ^endönlewas cast from captured cannon, and the Dome des Invalides and other Vol. XVII.—4 50 TIIK WORLD EMPIRE. splendid edifices were built; of the domains which he acquired in Italy,Poland, and Hanover, lie divi<ledasumof 150,000,000 francs in the formof estates to his chief coninuvTulers, some of whom received an income ofa million. Disproportionately low were the gifts bestowed on civil increasini^ precision was indicated the difrcrencc Ixtwccn him andother men, and he surrounded his persim witii a ceremonial that becamemore and more rigid and elaborate (Figs. 8, 9 ; Plate II.). On nooccasion did he now brook the least appearance of a limitation of hispower. Although the action of the senate, of the legislative body,. Kk;. 8. — Seal of Napoleon as emperor of the French from 1604 to 1814. Obverse. Fromthe impression in the British Museum, London. and of tlic tribunate was nothing more than a continuous concert ofadmiration, atlection, and gratitude toward the emperor, the tribunate,after having already suffered numberless primings, was obliged to receive,on September 18, 1807, the notification that the senate had decreed itsabsolute suppression. The tribunes terminated their political existencewith the assurance that they had discovered in this act a new occasionfor laying on the steps of the throne the expression of their admira-tion and their gratitude. In the year 1808 a great purging of the [I]<
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