CHAPTER FOURTEEN

1803–1804

THE ROYALIST PLOTS

Rupture of the Peace of Amiens--The Celebrated Scene with the English Ambassador--The Visit to Belgium--An Unfortunate Episode at Mortefontaine--First Suggestions of the Empire--Magnificent Reception at Brussels--The Royalist Conspiracies--Cadoudal and Pichegru Reach Paris--Joséphine’s Pacific Counsels--Petty Vanity of Madame Moreau--Her Husband’s Jealousy of Bonaparte--Arrest, Trial and Exile of Moreau--Deaths of Pichegru and Cadoudal--The Execution of the Duc d’Enghien 125