nd of Fructidor 19, year X.]

[Footnote 4120: Decree of January 17, 1806, article 40.]

[Footnote 4121: Aucoc, "Conference sur l'administration et le droit
administratif," Sec.Sec. 101, 162, 165. In our legislative system the council
of the arrondissement has not become a civil personality, while it
has scarcely any other object than to apportion direct taxes among the
communes of the arrondissement]

[Footnote 4122: Senatus-consulte of Thermidor 16, year X.]

[Footnote 4123: Decree of May 13, 1806, title III., article 32.]

[Footnote 4124: Thibaudeau, ibid., 294 (Speech of the First Consul to
the Council of State, Thermidor 16, year X). "What has become of the men
of the Revolution? Once out of place, they have been entirely neglected:
they have nothing left; they have no support, no natural refuge. Look at
Barras, Reubell, etc." The electoral colleges are to furnish them with
the asylum they lack. "Now is the time to elect the largest number of
men of the Revolution; the longer we wait, the fewer there will be....
With the exception of some of them, who have appeared on a grand
stage,... who have signed some treaty of peace... the rest are all
isolated and in obscurity. That is an important gap which must be
filled up.... It is for this reason that I have instituted the Legion of
Honor."]

[Footnote 4125: Baron de Vitrolles, "Memoires," preface, XXI. Comte de
Villele, "Memoires et Correspondance," I., 189 (August, 1807).]

[Footnote 4126: Faber, "Notice sur l'interieur de la France" (1807),
p.25.]

[Footnote 4127: Supporters of the Sovereign king or of the legitimate
royal dynasty. (SR.)]

[Footnote 4128: The following document shows the sense and aim of the
change, which goes on after the year VIII, also the contrast between
both administrative staffs. (Archives Nationales, F 7, 3219; letter of
M. Alquier to the First Consul, Pluviose 18, year VIII.) M. Alquier,
on his way to Madrid, stops at Toulouse and sends a report to the
authorities of Haute-Garonne: "I was desirous of seeing the central
administration. I found there the ideas and language of 1793. Two
personages, Citizens Barreau and Desbarreaux, play an active part then.
Up to 1792, the first was a shoemaker, and owed his political
fortune simply to his audacity and revolutionary frenzy. The second,
Desbarreaux, was a comedian of Toulouse, his principal role being that
of valets. In the month of Prairial, year III, he was compelled to go
down on hi