Excerpt from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 3 of 4 The tribune Ouree had the honour of first propo sing otficially the conversion of the Consular Repub lic into an Empire, and the elevation of Bonaparte to the title of Emperor, with hereditary right. Curee developed his proposition in the meeting of the 30th April, at whio I was resent. He commenced, by exposing the miseries w ioh had overwhelmed France, from the Constitutional Assembly, down to the 18th Brumaire a revolution which bej ustly characterized as a deliverance. He then assed in review the brilliant career of the present ead of the Republic; enumerated his claims to the gratitude of France; shewed that her flourishing condition depended on him Let us haste, then, to demand the hereditary transmission of the supreme magistracy; for, in voting for an hereditary chief, as Pliny said to Trajan, we bar the return of a master. But, at the same time, let us give a great name to a great power; let us choose a title which, while it carries the idea of the highest civil functions, may recall glorious remem brances, and breathe no taint upon the sovereignty of the people. I can see, for the guardian of a national ppwer, none more befitting than the title of Emperor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.