CHAPTER II

Joubert's loyalty towards my father--"Send me Dumas"--The Horatius Codes of the Tyrol--My father is appointed Governor of the Trévisan--The agent of the Directory--My father fêted at his departure--The treaty of Campo-Formio--The return to Paris--The flag of the Army of Italy--The charnel-house of Morat--Charles the Bold--Bonaparte is elected a member of the Institute--First thoughts of the expedition to Egypt--Toulon--Bonaparte and Joséphine--What was going to happen in Egypt