and could have ruined the rival who is your
protege with a clear conscience, for he once did me foul wrong, as he
will acknowledge. But farewell. I bear you no grudge. Or else it may
announce another change in the political weather by the veering of the
cock. As a good citizen, despising the horrors of the past, I could
have denounced you, Salicetti. I did not, for I recalled old times and
your helplessness, and wished to heap coals of fire on your head, that
you might see the error of your way. The latter interpretation finds
support in the complete renunciation of Jacobinism which the writer
made soon afterward, and in his subsequent labored explanation that in
the "Supper of Beaucaire" he had not identified himself with the
Jacobin soldier (so far an exact statement of fact), but had wished
only by a dispassionate presentation of facts to show the hopeless
case of Marseilles, and to prevent useless bloodshed.

CHAPTER XXII.

Bonaparte the General of the Convention[50].

[Footnote 50: For this chapter the Memoires du roi
Joseph, I, and Boehtlingk: Napoleon Bonaparte, etc., I,
are valuable references, in addition to those already
given. The memoirs of Barras are particularly misleading
except for comparison. For social conditions, cf.
Goncourt, Histoire de la Societe Francaise sous le
Directoire, and in particular Adolph Schmidt: Tableaux
de la Revolution Francaise; Pariser Zustaende waehrend der
Revolutionszeit.]

Disappointments -- Another Furlough -- Connection with
Barras -- Official Society in Paris -- Buonaparte as a Beau
-- Condition of His Family -- A Political General -- An
Opening in Turkey -- Opportunities in Europe -- Social
Advancement -- Official Degradation -- Schemes for
Restoration -- Plans of the Royalists -- The Hostility of
Paris to the Convention -- Buonaparte, General of the
Convention Troops -- His Strategy.

[Sidenote: 1795.]

The overhauling of the army list with the subsequent reassignment of
officers turned out ill for Buonaparte. Aubry, the head of the
committee, appears to have been utterly indifferent to him, displaying
no ill will, and certainly no active good will, toward the sometime
Jacobin, whose name, moreover, was last on the list of artillery
officers in the order of seniority. According to the regulat