he bulls that snorted fire and trod the fields with brazen hoofs, he
held the plow, he harrowed the field, he sowed the teeth and reaped
the harvest. We have abundant proof that literally every department of
administration felt the impulse of his will, while to the organization
of the army, to the arrangement of uniforms, to the designing of
gun-carriages, to questions concerning straps, buckles, and commissary
stores, to the temper of the common soldier, to the opinion of the
nation, to each and all these matters he gave such attention as left
nothing for others to do. By this exhibition of giant strength there
was created a true national impulse. With this behind them, the senate
in April called out another body of a hundred and eighty thousand men,
partly from the national guard and partly from those not ordinarily
taken as recruits. By this time the farmsteads of France and western
Germany had yielded up all their available horses, a number sufficient
to make a brave show of both cavalry and artillery. Allowing for
sickness, desertion, and malingering,--and of all three there was
much,--France and her wizard Emperor had ready on May first a fairly
effective force of nearly half a million armed men. This was exclusive
of the Spanish contingent, and there were a hundred thousand more if
the levies of Bavaria, Saxony, and the Rhenish confederation be
reckoned. At the time men said a miracle had been wrought: it was the
miracle of an iron will, a majestic capacity, and a restless
persistence such as have been combined in few if any other men besides
Napoleon Bonaparte. All that he could do was done,--equipment, drill,
organization,--but even he could not supply the one thing lacking to
make soldiers of his boys--two years of age and experience.

CHAPTER XXXII

THE REVOLT OF THE NATIONS[47]

[Footnote 47: References: Haussonville: L'Eglise romaine et
le premier empire. de Pradt: Les quatre concordats. de
Fallois: L'Empereur Napoleon Ier et le Pape Pie VII. Seche:
Les origines du concordat. Theiner: Histoire des deux
concordats de la republique francaise et de la republique
cisalpine conclus en 1801 et 1813, entre Napoleon Bonaparte
et le Saint-Siege.]

Napoleon as a Financier -- Failure to Secure Aid from the
Aristocracy -- The Fontainebleau Concordat -- Napoleon Defiant --
His Project for the Coming Campaign -- State of the Minor Ger