348 FRANCE. 



84 Regiments of cavalry, amounting to ". ', ~ ', . *' 46,350 



110 Regiments of infantry ............ 341,000 



10 Demi brigades of veterans ......... 13,960 



Artillery, foot and horse . . „ . . „ . . . , „ 26,600 



Total . . . 427,910 



The army with which Bonaparte invaded Russia in 1812, was, ac< 

 cording to the French statement, as follows : 



French troops ........ 250,000 



Poles . . 100,000 



Confederation of the Rhine . . . 120,000 



Italians .......... 50,000 



Austrians ......... 90,000 



Prussians . . ...... . 30,000 



Total . . 640,000 



The number of troops in France, and in garrison in other places^ 

 at the restoration, were said to amount to nearly 500,000 men. 



The repeated victories of the English by sea, in the course of the 

 late war, had extremely reduced, and, indeed, nearly annihilated, the 

 navy of France. Bonaparte was nevertheless making continued ex- 

 ertions for the formation of a navy. In 1813 the minister stated the 

 number of ships of the line as 100, 65 of which were completely 

 equipped and ready for sea. When the British entered Antwerp in 

 April, 1814, there were on the stocks 17 sail of the line, 4 of which 

 were of 1 10 guns, the others of 80, three frigates, and as many brigs. 

 There wei'e also in the Scheldt, fit for sea, 21 sail of the line, 10 fri- 

 gates, See. 



Titles, &c....The first national assembly abolished all nobility, he- 

 reditary distinctions, difference of orders, titles, denominations, and 

 prerogatives. Even the appellation of Monsieur was disused, and 

 that of Citizen substituted in its stead. Since, however, the accession 

 of Bonaparte to sovereign power, the term citizen is laid aside, and 

 that of Monsieur revived. He himself took the title of His Impe- 

 rial Majesty, and his brothers were styled Their Imperial High- 

 nesses. He appointed marshals of the empire, grand dignitaries, an 

 arch-elector, arch-chancellor, Sec. He likewise instituted what is 

 called a legion of honour, the commanders and members of which 

 were nominated by himself, and which was perhaps intended as an 

 introduction to orders of nobility and hereditary distinctions to be de- 

 rived from the imperial fountain of honour. 



The title of the king is simply, king of France and Navarre, and 

 by way of compliment he is called His most Christian Majesty. 



Religion.. ..By the laws of the constitution framed by the first na- 

 tional assembly, no man was to be molested for his opinions, or inter- 

 rupted in the exercise of his religion. The territorial possessions of 

 the Galiician church were claimed as national property, and disposed 

 of through the medium of a paper money, called assignats, for the 

 creditors of the state : and the clergy made dependent upon pension- 

 ary establishments, paid out of the national treasury j 9m of which 



