CHAPTER VII

My father at Villers-Cotterets--He is called to Paris to carry out the 13th Vendémiaire--Bonaparte takes his place--He arrives the next day--_Buonaparte's_ attestation--My father is sent into the district of Bouillon--He goes to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse and to the Army of the Rhine, and is appointed Commandant at Landau--He returns as Divisional General in the Army of the Alps, of which he had been Commander-in-Chief--English blood and honour--Bonaparte's plan--Bonaparte appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy--The campaign of 1796