Note 16 — Chapter II · FIRST USURPATIONS AND FIRST STRUGGLES.
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‘Cum toto Francorum exercitu . . . . . . Gebennam venit. . . . . . et copiarum partem per montem Jovis ire jussit.’—Eginhardi Annales. These words of the ancient annals may be applied to Napoleon I. as well as to Charlemagne. The First Consul Bonaparte passed through Geneva on his way to Marengo, May 1800.