The Republic continues to fight for its life, still crashing its enemies from its border and still having turmoil at home. France was in chaos threatened in all sides. Maximilien Robespierre showed no mercy in bringing up unity and order. Liberty (he said) can not be secured unless criminals lose their heads. Determine to make his voice heard Bonaparte wrote a political pact to Robespierre. The young soldier hated the terror but he hated chaos even more. Bonaparte is really a man of order, for him order is to serve ideal, exactly the ideal of Robespeirre. It is necessary to suspend liberties in the name of liberty, to save liberty and to save the republic it is necessary to suspend individual liberty. In the summer of 1794 Robespeirre government fell. Now it is the time for the makers of terror to die including Robespierre.
In the spring of 1795 Bonaparte headed for Paris. Now a Brigadier general he was determine to raise higher. France had a new constitutional government. The guillotine, the riot in the street, the war in the frontier all seems forgotten. Bonaparte is frequently in the salons were the women dominated the Paris high society will held court. The women here (he wrote his brother) is the center of importance, here alone all the places on earth they appeared the reign of government. But they little to do with him, he is just ambitious young soldier. I can still pictured him (one noble woman remembered) he wore badly dirty booths and a nasty round hat pulled down over his eyes, an overall sickly effect created by his thinnest and his yellow complexion. Bonaparte seems to be in the dead end, he was desperate for the promotion but no one paid any attention. If this continue (he wrote his brother) I shall end by not stepping aside when the courage rusted pass.
Then political turmoil once again gave his chance, mobs of Parisians joined by national guardsmen bent on toppling the Republic. And the government called on Bonaparte to repel the attack. When the rebellion broke out there are no other competent general in Paris that time except Bonaparte, a man of conviction they put him in.
Napoleon will use all his weapon, and nobody used cannons to the mob before. He delayed to shoot until he can see the white of their eyes and when he did no body is standing...the enemy attack us (he wrote his brother) we killed many of them and now all is quite I could not be happier.."They put the matter in my hands," Napoleon recalled, "and then set to discussing whether or not I had the right to repel force by force. 'Do you intent to wait,' said I, 'until the people give you permission to fire at them? You have appointed me, and I am compromised. It is only fair that I should do the business my own way.' On that I left the lawyers to drown themselves in their own flood of words, and got the troops on the move."...click here to continue
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