Produced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Unusual subscripts have been marked with { }, e.g.: V{te} for Vicomte.] [Illustration: From the collection of W. C. Crane Engraved by Langlois GENERAL BONAPARTE Drawn by Raffet.] THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BY WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE PH.D., L.H.D., LL.D. _Professor of History in Columbia University_ Revised and Enlarged With Portraits VOLUME II NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1916 Copyright, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1910 BY THE CENTURY CO. _Published, October, 1910_ CONTENTS CHAPTER Page I. Rescue of the Directory................................. 1 II. The Treaty of Campo Formio............................. 15 III. Bonaparte and Talleyrand............................... 26 IV. Commotions in European Politics........................ 36 V. The Expedition to Egypt................................ 46 VI. The Landing in Egypt................................... 55 VII. The Disaster at Acre................................... 65 VIII. Aboukir and the Great Desertion........................ 77 IX. "The Return of the Hero"............................... 86 X. Bonaparte Seizes His Opportunity...................... 100 XI. The Overthrow of the Directory........................ 111 XII. Bonaparte the First Consul............................ 121 XIII. Bonaparte Embodies the Revolution..................... 136 XIV. A Constitutional Despotism............................ 149 XV. Statesmanship and Strategy............................ 162 XVI. Marengo............................................... 174 XVII. The Peace of Lunéville................................ 190 XVIII. The Pacification of Europe............................ 203 XIX. The Reorganization of France.......................... 213 XX. The Code and the University........................... 221 XXI. Steps Toward Monarchy................................. 229 XXII. The Life Consulate.................................... 239 XXIII. The Threshold of Monarchy............................. 250 XXIV. Expansion of the Revolutionary System................. 261 XXV. Tension Between England and France.................... 275