)--Letters to Fouche, Oct.25 and
Dec. 31, 1806.)--Welschinger, ibid., pp.236, 244.]

[Footnote 6262: "Moniteur," Jan. I, 1806. (Tribunate, session of Nivose
9, year XIV., speeches of MM. Albisson and Gillet.--Senate, speeches
of MM. Perignon, Garat, de Lacepede.)--In the following numbers we find
municipal addresses, letters of bishops and the odes of poets in the
same strain.--In the way of official enthusiasm take the following two
fine examples. ("Debats," March 29, 1811.) "The Paris municipal council
deliberated on the vote of a pension for life of 10,000 francs in favor
of M. de Govers, His Majesty's second page, for bringing to the Hotel
de Ville the joyful news of the birth of the King of Rome.. .. Everybody
was charmed with his grace and presence of mind."--Faber, "Notices sur
l'interieur de France," p.25. "I know of a tolerably large town which
could not light its lamps in 1804, on account of having sent its mayor
to Paris at the expense of the commune to see Bonaparte crowned."]

[Footnote 6263: Taine here explains the method which was to be copied by
all the totalitarian leaders of the 20th century, especially by the ever
present communist-socialist-revolutionary organizations and their more
or less hidden leaders. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6264: Lenin, Stalin and their successors must all have found
this idea interesting and did also proceed to put much of the media in
the world under their control. (SR.)]

[Footnote 6265: Faber, ibid., p. 32 (1807). "I saw one day a physician,
an honest man, unexpectedly denounced for having stated in a social
gathering in the town some observations on the medical system under
the existing government. The denunciator, a French employee, was the
physician's friend and denounced him because he was afraid of being
denounced himself."--Count Chaptal, "Notes." Enumeration of the police
forces which control and complete each other. "Besides the minister and
the prefect of police Napoleon had three directors-general residing
at Paris and also in superintendence of the departments;.. besides,
commissioners-general of police in all the large towns and special
commissioners in all others; moreover, the gendarmerie, which daily
transmitted a bulletin of the situation all over France to the
inspector-general; again, reports of his aids and generals, of his guard
on supplementary police, the most dangerous of all to persons about
the court and to the principal agents of the administration; f