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Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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lU 3 A H o M a h-l 140 OPPOSITION TO CENTRALIZATION 141 about the First Consul. Paisiello was summoned to Paristo direct the opera and conservatory of music. There wasa revival of dignity and taste in strong contrast to the licenseand carelessness of the Revolution. The incroyable passedaway. The Greek costume disappeared from the street.Men and women began again to dress, to act, to talk, ac-cording to conventional forms. Society recovered its sys-tematic ways of doing things, and soon few signs of thegeneral dissolution which had prevailed for ten years were tobe seen. Once more the traveller crossed France in peace; peasantand laborer went undisturbed about their work, and sleptwithout fear. Again the people danced in the fields and sang their songs as they had in the days before the Revo-lution. France has nothing to ask from Heaven, saidRegnault de Saint Jean dAngely, but that the sun maycontinue to shine, the rain to fall on our fields, and the earthto render the seed fruitful.
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NAPOLEON IN 1803. Painted by A. Gerard in 1803. Engraved by Richomme in 1835. 142 CHAPTER X PREPARATIONS FOR WAR WITH ENGLAND FLOTILLA AT BOULOGNE SALE OF LOUISIANA IN the spring of 1803 the treaty of Amiens, which a yearbefore had ended the long war with England, wasbroken. Both countries had many reasons for com-plaint. Napoleon was angry at the failure to evacuate Malta.The perfect freedom allowed the press in England gave thepamphleteers and caricaturists of the country an opportunityto criticize and ridicule him. He complained bitterly to theEnglish ambassadors of this free press, an institution in hiseyes impractical and idealistic. He complained, too, of thehostile emigres allowed to collect in Jersey; of the presence inEngland of such a notorious enemy of his as Georges Cadou-dal; and of the sympathy and money the Bourbon princes andmany nobles of the old regime received in London society.Then, too, he regarded the country as his natural and in-evitable enemy. England to Napol

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