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89
.
Malmesbury,
Diaries and Correspondence
, iv. p. 60 (1 October 1801).
90
.
Minto to Paget,
The Paget Papers: Diplomatic and Other Correspondence of Sir Arthur Paget, 1794–1807
, 2 vols (London, 1896), ii. p. 27 (4 January 1802).
91
.
Malmesbury,
Diaries and Correspondence
, iv. pp. 62–3 (29 October 1801); Hamish Scott,
The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740–1815
(Harlow, 2006), p. 305.
92
.
Esdaile,
Napoleon’s Wars
, p. 107.
93
.
John Stevenson, ‘Food Riots in England’, in R. Quinault and John Stevenson (eds),
Popular Protest and Public Order: Six Studies in British History, 1790–1920
(London, 1974), pp. 33–74.
94
.
Henry Redhead Yorke,
France in Eighteen Hundred and Two Described in a Series of Contemporary Letters
(London, 1906), pp. 10–11.
95
.
Forrest, ‘La perspective de la paix dans l’opinion publique’, 254.
96
.
Elizabeth Mavor (ed.),
The Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot, France 1801–1803, and Russia 1805–07
(London, 1992), p. 47, writes of witnessing a landlord in the Rhône and Loire sitting at a table composing a letter to Bonaparte, ‘and when he had directed his letter “
au premier Consul
”, he took us up to a little bedchamber where, in a transport of pride, he told us . . . the “Saviour of his country” had repos’d’.
97
.
AN AFIV 1449, letter from Vietinghoff, Versailles, 20 brumaire an X (11 November 1801), f. 418.
98
.
AN AFIV 1449, letter from Rouget, commissioner of police, Bordeaux, 9 brumaire an X (30 October 1801), f. 441. See also Forrest, ‘La perspective de la paix dans l’opinion publique’, 251–62.
99
.
Talleyrand,
Mémoires
, i. p. 286.
 
100
. Emile Tersen,
Napoléon
(Paris, 1959), p. 120; Lentz,
Grand Consulat
, p. 296.
 
101
. Gautier-Sauzin,
Discours prononcé par le maire de Montauban
. See also Pierre Crouzet,
La fête de la paix, ou les élèves de Saint-Cyr à Marengo
(Paris, n.d.); and Paul-Henri Marron,
Discours prononcé la veille de la fête de la Paix, 17 brumaire an X, dans le temple des protestans de Paris
(Paris, 1801).
 
102
. Joseph Fiévée,
Lettres sur l’Angleterre et réflexions sur la philosophie du XVIIIe siècle
(Paris, 1802), p. 43. The letter addressed to Bonaparte from a former member of the Constituent Assembly amply illustrates the point (AN AFIV 1449, letter from Brouillet, dated Millau, 16 brumaire an X (7 November 1801), f. 561).
 
103
. Jean-Paul Bertaud,
Quand les enfants parlaient de gloire: l’armée au coeur de la France de Napoléon
(Paris, 2006), pp. 21–2;
Programme de la fête de la paix qui aura lieu le 18 brumaire an X
(Paris, 1801). For other theatrical celebrations of the peace see Patrick Berthier, ‘La paix d’Amiens dans la littérature’, in Nadine-Josette Chaline (ed.),
La Paix d’Amiens
(Amiens, 2005), pp. 213–15, 221–30.
 
104
. Claire-Elisabeth-Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, comtesse de Rémusat,
Mémoires de Madame de Rémusat, 1802–1808
, 3 vols (Paris, 1880), i. p. 238.
 
105
. For the reaction in the Parisian press see Berthier, ‘La paix d’Amiens dans la littérature’, pp. 216–21.
 
106

Journal des arts, des sciences, et de littérature
, 25 brumaire an X (16 November 1801); Berthier, ‘La paix d’Amiens dans la littérature’, p. 219.
 
107
. For this and the following engraving see Bruno Foucart, ‘L’accueil de la Paix d’Amiens par les artistes’, in Chaline (ed.),
La Paix d’Amiens
, pp. 236, 239.
 
108

A Practical Guide during a Journey from London to Paris; with a Correct Description of all the Objects Deserving of Notice in the French Metropolis
(London, 1802), pp. 35–6.
 
109
. Bury and Barry (eds),
An Englishman in Paris
, p. 121.
 
110

A Practical Guide during a Journey from London to Paris
, p. 34.
 
111
. Jean Tulard,
Nouvelle histoire de Paris: le Consulat et l’Empire
:
1800–1815
(Paris, 1983), pp. 92–3.
 
112
. Henri d’Alméras,
La vie parisienne sous le Consulat et l’Empire
(Paris, 1909), p. 20.
 
113
. Louis Prudhomme,
Miroir historique, politique et critique de l’ancien et du nouveau Paris, et du département de la Seine
, 6 vols (Paris, 1807), i. pp. 303–10; Alméras,
La vie parisienne sous le Consulat et l’Empire
, p. 26. There is a wonderful description of the ‘patterns of urban life’ in pre-revolutionary Paris in David Garrioch,
The Making of Revolutionary Paris
(Berkeley, 2002), pp. 16–35.
 
114
. Raimbach,
Memoirs
, pp. 95, 101.
 
115
. Mavor (ed.),
The Grand Tours of Katherine Wilmot
, p. 19.
 
116
. Laurent Turcot, ‘Entre promenades et jardins publics: les loisirs parisiens et londoniens au XVIIIe siècle’,
Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire/Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis
, 87 (2009), 645–52.
 
117
. August von Kotzebue,
Souvenirs de Paris en 1804
, 2 vols (Paris, 1805), i. pp. 266–9; Honoré Blanc,
Le Guide des dîneurs, ou Statistique des principaux restaurants de Paris
(Paris, 1814), pp. 15, 94, 194; Rebecca L. Spang,
The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
(Cambridge, Mass., 2000), pp. 92, 172–3.
 
118
. Prudhomme,
Miroir historique, politique et critique
, i. pp. 276, 283.
 
119
. Kotzebue,
Souvenirs
, i. pp. 270–1.
 
120

A Practical Guide during a Journey from London to Paris
, p. 134; Kotzebue,
Souvenirs
, i. pp. 262–3.
 
121
. Abrantès,
Mémoires
, iii. pp. 34, 53,
 
122
. Steven D. Kale,
French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848
(Baltimore, 2004), pp. 77–104.
 
123
. Anne Martin-Fugier,
La vie élégante ou La formation du Tout-Paris, 1815–1848
(Paris, 1990), p. 192; Steven D. Kale, ‘Women, Salons, and the State in the Aftermath of the French Revolution’,
Journal of Women’s History
, 13:4 (2002), 58–9; Steven D. Kale, ‘Women, the Public Sphere, and the Persistence of Salons’,
French Historical Studies
, 25:1 (2002), 115–48.
 
124
. Aglaé Marie Louise de Choiseul Gouffier, duchesse de Saulx-Tavanes,
Sur les routes de l’émigration: mémoires de la duchesse de Saulx-Tavannes (1791–1806)
(Paris, 1934), pp. 159–60, 174–6.
 
125
. Peter Fritzsche, ‘The Historical Actor’, in Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi (eds),
Constructing Charisma: Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe
(New York, 2010), p. 136. The figures for the number of visitors vary: the British ambassador, Anthony Merry, estimated that in December 1802 there were 5,000 British subjects in Paris (John Goldworth Alger,
Napoleon’s British Visitors and Captives 1801–1815
(Edinburgh, 1904), p. 25; Daniel Roche, ‘The English in Paris’, in Christophe Charle, Julien Vincent and Jay Winter (eds),
Anglo-French Attitudes: Comparisons and Transfers between English and French Intellectuals since the Eighteenth Century
(Manchester, 2007), pp. 78–97; and Renaud Morieux, ‘“An Inundation from Our Shores”: Travelling across the Channel around the Peace of Amiens’, in Philp (ed.),
Resisting Napoleon
, pp. 217–40). As for the number of French visitors to Britain, between December 1802 and April 1803 the British embassy in Paris issued over 3,300 passports (Grainger,
The
Amiens Truce
, pp. 130–1). The discrepancy came about in part because there was no French tradition of visiting Britain, whereas the British tour of the Continent was a long-established ritual.

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