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75
.
Michael Marrinan, ‘Literal/Literary/“Lexie”: History, Text, and Authority in Napoleonic Painting’,
Word & Image
, 7:3 (1991), 178–9; Fernand Mitton,
La presse française
(Paris, 1945), ii. pp. 210–11; Simon Burrows, ‘The Cosmopolitan Press, 1759–1815’, in Barker and Burrows (eds),
Press, Politics and the Public Sphere
, p. 38; Simon Burrows, ‘The War of Words: French and British Propaganda in the Napoleonic Era’, in David Cannadine (ed.),
Trafalgar
in History: A Battle and its Afterlife
(Basingstoke, 2006), p. 48.
76
.
Jeremy D. Popkin,
Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789–1799
(Durham, 1990), pp. 151–62; Michel Biard,
Parlez-vous sans-culotte?: dictionnaire du ‘Père Duchesne’, 1790–1794
(Paris, 2009), pp. 285–6.
77
.
Hugh Gough,
The Newspaper Press in the French Revolution
(London, 1988), pp. 141–59; Popkin,
Revolutionary News
, pp. 169–79.
78
.
P.M., ‘Un document sur l’histoire de la presse’, 78, 79, 80.
79
.
Michael Polowetzky,
A Bond Never Broken: The Relations between Napoleon and the Authors of France
(Rutherford, 1993), pp. 71–2.
80
.
See, for example, Jean-Jacques Régis de Cambacérès,
Mémoires inédits: éclaircissements publiés par Cambacérès sur les principaux événements de sa vie politique
, 2 vols (Paris, 1999), i. p. 480; Cabanis,
La presse
, p. 87.
81
.
Thibaudeau,
Mémoires sur le Consulat
, p. 267; John Holland Rose, ‘The Censorship under Napoleon I’,
Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law
, 18:1 (1918), 62.
82
.
A. Périvier,
Napoléon journaliste
(Paris, 1918), p. 105, speaks of the ‘total enslavement’ of the press. See also Geoffrey Ellis,
Napoleon
(Harlow, 1997), pp. 168–9; Felix Markham,
Napoleon
(London, 1963), p. 86; Jeremy D. Popkin,
The Right-Wing Press in France, 1792–1800
(Chapel Hill, 1980), pp. 170–2. The exception is Steven Englund,
Napoleon: A Political Biography
(New York, 2004), pp. 312–13.
83
.
Jean-Luc Chappey, ‘Pierre-Louis Roederer et la presse sous le Directoire et le Consulat: l’opinion publique et les enjeux d’une politique éditoriale’,
Annales historiques de la Révolution française
, 334 (2003), 19.
84
.
See Dennis A. Trinkle,
The Napoleonic Press: The Public Sphere and Oppositionary Journalism
(Lewiston, 2002), pp. 1–4.
85
.
Jainchill,
Reimagining Politics
, p. 263; Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi,
Recherches sur les constitutions des peuples libres
, ed. with an introduction by Marco Minerbi (Geneva, 1965). To cite but one example, in October 1800, after a Jacobin assassination plot against Napoleon had been uncovered, a song circulated that insulted Bonaparte and his whole family. AN F7 3702, 22 vendémiaire an IX (14 October 1800); Aulard,
Paris sous le Consulat
, i. p. 715.
86
.
Corr.
vi. n. 4422 (15 December 1799). A second proclamation was issued ten days later,
Corr.
vi. n. 4447 (25 December), and was drawn up by Pierre-Louis Roederer. It states that the new regime’s two primary goals were, first, to consolidate the Republic and, second, to make France formidable to its enemies. Roederer,
Oeuvres
, iii. pp. 328–30.
87
.
Claude Nicolet,
La fabrique d’une nation: la France entre Rome et les Germains
(Paris, 2003), p. 143.
88
.
Entretien politique sur la situation actuelle de la France et sur les plans du nouveau gouvernement
. Translation in Marc-Antoine Jullien,
From Jacobin to Liberal: Marc-Antoine Jullien, 1775–1848
, ed. and trans. R. R. Palmer (Princeton, 1993), pp. 94–100 (December 1799), here p. 95.
89
.
See, for example, the account written one year after Brumaire of a France on the brink of collapse in the opening passages of Pierre-Louis Roederer,
La Première année du Consulat de Bonaparte
(n.p., n.d.).
90
.
For the following see Jérémie Benoît, ‘La peinture allégorique sous le Consulat: structure et politique’,
Gazette des Beaux-Arts
, 121 (1993), 78–9; Marc Sandoz,
Antoine-François-Callet: 1741–1823
(Paris, 1985), p. 123.
91
.
After 1802, when the Consulate for life was proclaimed, there were no longer any references to the people in the paintings commanded by the state.
92
.
Victor de Broglie (ed.),
Souvenirs, 1785–1870
, 4 vols (Paris, 1886), i. pp. 31–2; Roguet,
Mémoires
, ii. p. 418.
93
.
The same can be said for the other Napoleonic plebiscites. See Josiane Bourguet-Rouveyre, ‘La survivance d’un système électorale sous le Consulat et l’Empire’,
Annales historique de la Révolution française
, 346 (2006), 17–29.
94
.
Malcolm Crook,
Elections in the French Revolution: An Apprenticeship in Democracy,1789–1799
(Cambridge, 1996), p. 191.
95
.
For this and the following see Malcolm Crook, ‘Les réactions autour de Brumaire à travers le plébiscite de l’an VIII’, in Jean-Pierre Jessenne (ed.),
Du Directoire au Consulat
, 3 vols (Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2001), iii. pp. 323–31.
96
.
Jeff Horn, ‘Le plébiscite de l’an VIII et la construction du système préfectoral’, in Jessenne (ed.),
Du Directoire au Consulat
, iii. pp. 552–3.
97
.
Jean Tulard,
Napoléon ou le mythe du sauveur
(Paris, 1977), p. 131.
98
.
Claude Langlois, ‘Le plébiscite de l’an VIII ou le coup d’état du 18 pluviôse an VIII’,
Annales historiques de la Révolution française
, 44 (1972), 43–65, 231–6 and 390–415; Claude Langlois, ‘Napoléon Bonaparte plébiscité?’, in Léo Hamon and Guy Lobrichon (eds),
L’élection du chef de l’état en France de Hugues Capet à nos jours
(Paris, 1988), pp. 90–1; Malcolm Crook, ‘Confiance d’en bas, manipulation d’en haut: la pratique plébiscitaire sous Napoléon (1799–1815)’, in Philippe Bourdin et al. (eds),
L’incident électoral de la Révolution française à la Ve République
(Clermont-Ferrand, 2002), pp. 77–87.
99
.
Michel Vovelle,
La Révolution française: 1789–1799
(Paris, 1998), pp. 83–4.
 
100
. Langlois, ‘Le plébiscite de l’an VIII’, 43–65, 231–46, 390–415, here 241–3. The official figures were 3,011,007 ‘yes’ votes and 1,562 ‘no’ votes.
 
101
. Other meetings took place the following year with Georges Cadoudal, and comtes de Bourmont, Châtillon and d’Autichamp. See
Corr.
vi. n. 4639 (5 March 1800). We shall come across Cadoudal a little further on.
 
102
. According to Jean-Guillaume Hyde de Neuville,
Mémoires et souvenirs du baron Hyde de Neuville
, 3 vols (Paris, 1888), i. pp. 268–75.
 
103

Corr.
vi. n. 4473 (28 December 1799).
 
104

Corr.
vi. n. 4506 (11 January 1800).
 
105
. Brown, ‘Echoes of the Terror’, 550; Howard G. Brown, ‘Special Tribunals and the Napoleonic Security State’, in Philip Dwyer and Alan Forrest (eds),
Napoleon and his Empire: Europe, 1804–1814
(Basingstoke, 2007), pp. 79–95.
 
106

Corr.
vi. n. 4603 (18 February 1800); Hyde de Neuville,
Mémoires et souvenirs
, i. pp. 299–302; Léon de La Sicotière,
Louis de Frotté et les insurrections normandes, 1793–1832
(Paris, 1889), pp. 467–542; Villefosse and Bouissounouse,
L’opposition à Napoléon
, pp. 128–30; Brown,
Ending the French Revolution
, pp. 264–5.
 
107
. Cabanis,
Le sacre de Napoléon
, p. 54.
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