and Otto are ambassadors, Mollien is
count and treasury minister, Miot becomes councilor of state, Comte de
Melito minister of finances at Naples, while Gaudin is made minister of
finances in France and Duc de Gaete. Among the transported or fugitives
of Fructidor, Barthelemy becomes senator, Barbe-Marbois director of the
Treasury and first president of the Cour des Comptes; Simeon, councilor
of State and then minister of justice in Westphalia; Portalis is made
minister of worship, and Fontanes grand-master of the University. The
First Consul passes the sponge over all political antecedents: not
only does he summon to his side the moderates and half-moderates of the
Constituent and Legislative Assemblies, of the Convention and of the
Directory, but again he seeks recruits among pure royalists and pure
Jacobins, among the men the most devoted to the ancient Regime and
amongst those most compromised by the Revolution, at both extremities
of the most extreme opinions. We have just seen, on the one side, what
hereditary favorites of a venerable royalty, what born supporters of the
deposed dynasty, are elevated by him to the first of his magisterial,
clerical and court dignities. On the other hand, apart from Chasset,
Roederer and Gregoire, apart from Fourcroy, Berlier and Real, apart from
Treilhard and Boulay de La Meurthe, he employs others branded or noted
for terrible acts, Barere himself, at least for a certain period, and in
the sole office he was fitted for, that of a denunciator, gazetteer and
stimulator of public opinion; everybody has a place according to his
faculties, and each has rank according to his usefulness and merit.
Barere, consequently, becomes a paid spy and pamphleteer; Drouet,
the postmaster, who arrested the royal family at Varennes, becomes
sub-prefect at Sainte-Menehould; Jean-Bon Saint-Andre, one of the
Committee of Public Safety, is made prefect at Mayence; Merlin de Douai,
reporter of the law against suspects, is prosecuting attorney in the
court of cassation; Fouche, whose name tells all, becomes minister of
state and Duke of Otranto; nearly all of the survivors of the Convention
are made judges of premiere instance or of appeal, revenue-collectors,
deputies, prefects, foreign consuls, police commissioners, inspectors of
reviews, head-clerks in the post-offices, custom-houses and tax-offices,
while, in 1808, among these functionaries, one hundred and thirty were
regicides.[3310]

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