. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. rma was aSpanish prince with whose house France had made onetreaty and hoped to make a much better one. Theduke, therefore, was graciously allowed to purchase anarmistice by an enormous but yet possible contributionof two million francs in money, together with provisionsand horses in quantity. The famous St. Jerome ofCorreggio was among the twenty paintings seized inModena. The archduke repeatedly offered to ransomit for one million francs, the amount at which its valuewas estimated, but his request was not granted. Nextcame Bologna and its surrounding territory.
. Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. rma was aSpanish prince with whose house France had made onetreaty and hoped to make a much better one. Theduke, therefore, was graciously allowed to purchase anarmistice by an enormous but yet possible contributionof two million francs in money, together with provisionsand horses in quantity. The famous St. Jerome ofCorreggio was among the twenty paintings seized inModena. The archduke repeatedly offered to ransomit for one million francs, the amount at which its valuewas estimated, but his request was not granted. Nextcame Bologna and its surrounding territory. Suchhad been the tyranny of ecclesiastical control that thesubjects of the Pope in that most ancient and famousseat of learning welcomed the French with unfeignedjoy; and the fairest portion of the Papal States passedby its own desire from under the old yoke. The suc-cessor of St. Peter was glad to ransom his capital by apayment nominally of twenty-one million francs. Inreality he had to surrender far more; for his galleries,. ^T. 26] INSUBORDINATE CONQUEROR 375 like those of Modena, were stripped of their gems, whilethe funds seized in government offices, and levied inirregular ways, raised the total value forwarded toParis to nearly double the nominal contribution. Allthis, Bonaparte explained, was but a beginning, theidleness of summer heats. This armistice, he wroteto Paris on June twenty-first, 1796, being concludedwith the dog-star rather than with the papal army, myopinion is that you should be in no haste to make peace,so that in September, if all goes well in Germany andnorthern Italy, we can take possession of Rome. In fact, this ingenious man was really practisingmoderation, as both he and the terrified Italians, consider-ing their relative situations, understood it. Whateverhad been the original arrangement with the directors,there was nothing they did not now expect and de-mand from Italy; they wrote requiring, in additionto all that had hitherto been mentioned, pl
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