| Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley - 1864 - 332 pages
...young conqueror of the Directory. " What have you done with that France which I left you so brilliant? I left you peace, I find war. I left you victories, I find reverses." The question was proudly asked, for the young general had the army at his command. To a man the different... | |
| Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley - 1864 - 324 pages
...young conqueror of the Directory. " What have you done with that France which I left you so brilliant? I left you peace, I find war. I left you victories, I find reverses." The question was proudly asked, for the young general had the army at his command. To a man the different... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1877 - 582 pages
...airs of a potentate. ' What have you done,' he said, ' with this France which I left you so glorious ? I left you peace : I find war I left you victories : I find reverses. I left you the millions of Italy : I find everywhere spoliation and misery. What have you done with... | |
| Emile de Bonnechose - France - 1878 - 1004 pages
...and by his words : " What have you done," eaid he, "with that France which I left you so brilliant ? I left you peace ; I find war : I left you victories ; I find reverses. What have you done with the hundred thousand Frenchmen, my companions in arms, all of whom were known... | |
| John Bonner - France - 1893 - 428 pages
...despised by the people. Bonaparte called them to task. "What have you done with the France I left you? I left you peace ; I find war. I left you victories ; I find defeats. I left you millions ; I find starvation. What have you done with my brothers in arms? They... | |
| Napoleon I (Emperor of the French), Robert Matteson Johnston - 1910 - 544 pages
...to the legislative body. What have you done with France which I left in your hands so prosperous ? I left you peace, I find war! I left you victories, I find defeats! I left you millions, I find beggary! This state of things must cease. Ciioyens Representants:... | |
| Cecil Headlam - France - 1913 - 504 pages
...beginning of the end. 368 the Directory, " have you done with this France which I left so brilliant ? I left you peace ; I find war. I left you victories ; I find defeats. I left you the millions of Italy ; I find laws of spoliation and misery." The antithesis was... | |
| John Ronald Moreton-Macdonald - France - 1915 - 580 pages
...denunciation of the Directory : " What have you done with the France that I left you so brilliant ? I left you peace, I find war ! I left you victories, I find reverses ! I left you the millions of Italy ; I find everywhere spoliation and misery ! What have you done with... | |
| VD Mahajan - History - 1988 - 1014 pages
...who came to meet him in the gardens: "What have you done with this France which I left so brilliant? I left you peace, I find war. I left you victories, I find defeats. I left you the millions of Italy, I find losses of spoliation and miseries." These words of... | |
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