Citizen Emperor (145 page)

 
142
. Iung (ed.),
Lucien Bonaparte
, iii. pp. 4–5.

 
143
. Masson,
Napoléon et sa famille
, ii. pp. 414–18.

 
144
. Henri Gaubert,
Le sacre de Napoléon Ier
(Paris, 1964), p. 149.

 
145
. These sentiments are expressed in the speeches of the Tribunate to Napoleon – see, for example, the speeches by Fabre de l’Aude (reprinted in the
Moniteur
, 1 May); Jaubert (3 May); Faure (4 May) – and indeed in Napoleon’s response to the Senate (6 May 1804).

 
146
. Jacques-Barthélemy Salgues,
Mémoire pour servir à l’histoire de France sous le gouvernement de Napoléon Buonaparte et pendant l’absence de la maison de Bourbon (1760–1830)
, 9 vols (Paris, 1814–26), vi. pp. 148–9.

 
147
. David Chanteranne,
Le sacre de Napoléon
(Paris, 2004), pp. 185–7, on which the following is based. See also Dubroca,
Les quatre fondateurs des dynasties françaises
, pp. 247–52, 305–6; Jean Chas,
Coup d’oeil d’un ami de sa patrie, sur les grandes action de l’empereur Napoléon
(Paris, 1804), pp. 1–2.

 
148
. Chas,
Coup d’oeil d’un ami
, p. 1; Joseph-Balthazar Bonnet de Treyches,
Du gouvernement héréditaire et de l’influence de l’autorité d’un seul sur les arts
(Paris, 1804), p. 7.

 
149
. Dubroca,
Les quatre fondateurs des dynasties françaises
, p. 325.

 
150
. Bonnet de Treyches,
Du gouvernement héréditaire
, pp. 7 and 9.

 
151
. Katia Sainson, ‘“Le Régénérateur de la France”: Literary Accounts of Napoleonic Regeneration 1799–1805’,
Nineteenth-Century French Studies
, 30 (2001–2), 9–25, here 17.

 
152
. Howard Brown,
Ending the Revolution
, pp. 3–4, argues that the Revolution came to an end in 1802 because it was in that year the regime became ‘structurally secure’ – that is, it no longer faced a serious domestic threat; the government had become stable and was accepted by the political elite. Blanning,
Pursuit of Glory
, p. 653, argues for 1802 as the year in which the revolutionary wars came to an end.

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