HISTORY OFEU 11 OPE. [17 



The other principal posts in and 

 round Paris, such as the bridges, 

 the Luxembourg, the hall of the 

 council of five hundred, the military 

 school, the invalids, St. Cloud, and 

 Versailles, were also occupied by 

 troops under the command of Mar- 

 mont, Serrurier, Lannes, Macdo- 

 nald, and other generals, the com- 

 panions and friends of Buonaparte. 

 Lefebre was his first lieutenant. 

 While the general was engaged in 

 close conversation with Sieyes and 

 Ducos, on the important objects un- 

 der their consideration, the transla- 

 tion of the legislature to St. Cloud, 

 and the means of preserving tran- 

 quillity in the capital, he wasjoined 

 by general Augereau, who, with 

 every demonstration of cordiality, 

 said, " General, you did not send 

 for me, but I have come unsought, 

 to join you." Augereau, who was 



one of the most zealous and ener- 

 getic among the jacobins, had, in 

 1 797, rendered a similar service to 

 his own party, in controlling the 

 national representation by an armed 

 force, to what he now oftered, for 

 the overthrow of his colleagues 

 and friends to Buonaparte. 



Moulins, finding every thing 

 desperate, did not wait to be arrest- 

 ed, but, jumping out of the win- 

 dow, made his escape across the 

 garden of the Luxembourg. Go- 

 hier repaired to the Thuilleries, 

 where, as president of the directo- 

 ry, he put the seal to the decree 

 for the translation to St. Cloud. 

 But he refused to resign the seal 

 of state, and returned to the palace 

 of the directory, where he was put 

 under a guard. Sieyes and Ducos 

 about the same time with Barras, 

 resigned their offices. 



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