Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

Author:Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne [Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2016-07-31T00:00:00+00:00

"This, General, is all I have to tell you respecting my relations

with Pichegru, and it must convince you that very false and hasty

inferences have been drawn from conduct which, though perhaps

imprudent, was far from being criminal."

Moreau fulfilled his duty as a public functionary by communicating to the Directory the papers which unfolded a plot against the Government, and which the chances of war had thrown into his hands. He fulfilled his duty as a man of honour by not voluntarily incurring the infamy which can never be wiped from the character of an informer. Bonaparte in Moreau's situation would have acted the same part, for I never knew a man express stronger indignation than himself against informers, until he began to consider everything a virtue which served his ambition, and everything a crime which opposed it.

The two facts which most forcibly obtruded themselves on my attention during the trial were the inveterate violence of the President of the Court towards the prisoners and the innocence of Moreau.

—[It is strange that Bourrienne does not acknowledge that he was

charged by Napoleon with the duty of attending this trial of Moreau,

and of sending in a daily report of the proceedings.]—

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