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NAPOLEON'S ADDRESSES.
lic safety, deliberated, and drew up the salutary resolution which will become the new and provisional law of the Republic.
"Frenchmen, you doubtless recognize in this conduct the zeal of a soldier of liberty, of a citizen devoted to the Republic. Conservative, tutelary, and liberal ideas resumed their authority upon the dispersion of the factions, who domineered in the councils, and who, in rendering themselves the most odious of men, did not cease to be the most contemptible."
