Vivenot: Thugut, Clerfayt. Correspondance de
Thugut avec Colloredo. Hueffer: Oesterreich und Preussen,
etc.; Der Rastatter Congress. Von Sybel: Geschichte der
Revolutions Zeit. Bailleu: Preussen und Frankreich.
Sandoz-Rollin: Amtliche Sammlung von Akten aus der Zeit
der Helvetischen Republic. Sorel: Bonaparte et Hoche;
Bonaparte et le Directoire; also articles in the Revue
Historique, 1885. Sciout: Le Directoire, also article in
Revue des questions historiques, 1886. Boulay de la
Meurthe: Quelques lettres de Marie Caroline; Revue
d'histoire diplomatique, 1888. Barante: Histoire du
Directoire and Souvenirs. McClellan: The Oligarchy of
Venice. Bonnal: Chute d'une republique. Seche: Les
origines du Concordat. Dandolo: La caduta della
republica di Venetia. Romanin: Storia documentata di
Venezia. Sloane: The French Revolution and Religious
Reform. In general and further, the memoirs of Marmont,
Chaptal, Landrieux, Carnot, Larevelliere-Lepeaux
(probably not genuine), Mathieu Dumas, Thibaudeau, Miot
de Melito, and the correspondence of Mallet du Pan.]

Rome Threatened -- Pius VI Surrenders -- The Peace of
Tolentino -- Bonaparte and the Papacy -- Designs for the
Orient -- France Reassured -- The Policy of Austria -- The
Archduke Charles -- Bonaparte Hampered by the Directory --
His Treatment of Venice -- Condition of Venetia -- The
Commonwealth Warned.

[Sidenote: 1797.]

Bonaparte seems after Rivoli to have reached the conviction that a man
who had brought such glory to the arms of France was at least as firm
in the affections of her people as was the Directory, which had no
hold on them whatever, except in its claim to represent the
Revolution. Clarke had reached Milan on November twenty-ninth, 1796.
Bonaparte read him like an open scroll, discovering instantly that
this graceful courtier had been commissioned to keep the little
general in his place as a subordinate, and use him to make peace at
any price. Possessing the full confidence of Carnot and almost
certainly of the entire Directory, the easily won diplomat revealed to
his lean, long-haired, ill-clad, penetrating, and facile inquisitor
the precious contents of the govern