Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference, Fiction & Literature, Classics
ISBN: 4057664187635
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

Cambacérès next went to congratulate the Empress, and then was realised to Josephine the prediction which I had made to her three years before at Malmaison.

—[In the original motion as prepared by Curee, the Imperial dignity

was to be declared hereditary in the family of Napoleon. Previous to

being formerly read before the Tribunate, the First Consul sent for

the document, and when it was returned it was found that the word

family was altered to descendants. Fabre, the President of the

Tribunate, who received the altered document from Maret, seeing the

effect the alteration would have on the brothers of Napoleon, and

finding that Maret affected to crest the change as immaterial, took

on himself to restore the original form, and in that shape it was

read by the unconscious Curee to the Tribunals. On this curious,

passage see Miot de Melito, tome ii, p. 179. As finally settled the

descent of the crown in default of Napoleon's children was limited

to Joseph and Louis and their descendants, but the power of adoption

was given to Napoleon. The draft of the 'Senates-consulte' was

heard by the Council of State in silence, and Napoleon tried in vain

to get even the most talkative of the members now to speak. The

Senate were not unanimous in rendering the 'Senatus-consulte'. The

three votes given against it were said to have been Gregoire, the

former constitutional Bishop of Blois, Carat, who as Minister of

Justice had read to Louis XVI. the sentence of death, and

Lanjuinais, one of the very few survivors of the Girondists, Thiers

says there was only one dissentient voice. For the fury of the

brothers of Napoleon, who saw the destruction of all their ambitions

hopes in any measure for the descent of the crown except in the

family, see Miot, tome ii. p.. 172, where Joseph is described as

cursing the ambition of his brother, and desiring his death as a

benefit for France and his family.]—

Bonaparte's first act as Emperor, on the very day of his elevation to the Imperial throne, was the nomination of Joseph to the dignity of Grand Elector, with the title of Imperial Highness. Louis was raised to the dignity of Constable, with the same title, and Cambacérès and Lebrun were created Arch-Chancellor and Arch-Treasurer of the Empire. On the same day Bonaparte wrote the following letter to Cambacérès, the first which he signed as Emperor, and merely with the name of Napoleon:—

CITIZEN CONSUL CAMBACERES—Your title has changed; but your

functions and my confidence remain the same. In the high dignity

with which you are now invested you will continue to manifest, as

you have hitherto done in that of Consul, that wisdom and that

distinguished talent which entitle you to so important a share in

all the good which I may have effected. I have, therefore, only to

desire the continuance of the sentiments you cherish towards the

State and me.

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