chargé d'affaires at Genoa, to Buchot, commissioner of foreign
affairs.) Cf. in the "Mémorial," Napoleon's favorable judgment of
Robespierre.

[27] Yung, II., 455. (Letter from Bonaparte to Tilly, Aug. 7,
1794.) Ibid., III., 120. (Memoirs of Lucien.) "Barras takes care of
Josephine's dowry, which is the command of the army in Italy." Ibid.,
II., 477. (Grading of general officers, notes by Schérer on
Bonaparte.) "He knows all about artillery, but is rather too
ambitious, and too intriguing for promotion."

[28] De Ségur, I., 162. - La Fayette, "Mémoires," II., 215.
"Mémorial" (note dictated by Napoleon). He states the reasons for and
against, and adds, speaking of himself: "These sentiments, twenty-five
years of age, confidence in his strength, his destiny, determined
him." Bourrienne, I., 51: " It is certain that he has always bemoaned
that day; he has often said to me that he would give years of his life
to efface that page of his history."

[29] "Mémorial," I., Sept 6, 1815. " It is only after Lodi that the
idea came to me that I might, after all, become a decisive actor on
our political stage. Then the first spark of lofty ambition gleamed
out." On his aim and conduct in the Italian campaign of Sybel,
"Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Révolution Française" (Dosquet
translation), vol. IV., books II. and III., especially pp.182, 199,
334, 335, 406, 420, 475, 489.

[30] Yung, III., 213. (Letter of M. de Sucy, August 4, 1797.)

[31] Ibid., III., 214. (Report of d'Entraigues to M. de Mowikinoff,