The scene occurs to the castle from Saint-Cloud, close to Paris. The assemblies of the Directory are brought together there. The Bonaparte General, who re-entered from Egypt little time before, penetrated in the room where seat the principal one of these assemblies, the Council of the Five Hundreds. Accompanied by its pomegranates, it brutally orders to the deputies from to go away; it is him, says it, which will reorganize the French government. The deputies are driven out by the soldiers, *Bonaparte becomes the legal head of the Republic.
