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3.53- The Consulate

Revolutions

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A Brief History of Bonaparte

Emigres were told that all prescriptions and penalties against them were cancelled. Land titles purchased at auction would be recognized as valid, full stop. Many noble families were back in possession of most of what they had owned before the fall of the bastille. The rehabilitation and reintegration of the royalists was nearly derailed on christmas eve 18 hundred when bonaparte was almost blown to bits by assassins in paris. But though the first consul did not win a new ally, he did manage to shed his last enemy.

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