Note 255 — Chapter LXV
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"As the Empress-Regent could not authorise, by her signature, the presentation of any senatus consultum, nor the promulgation of any law, the part she had to act was limited to her appearance at the council-board. Besides, she was herself under the tutorship of Cambacérès, who was himself directed by Savary. In fact, after the regency was set in motion, the soul of the government did not the less travel with Napoleon, who did not fail of issuing forth numerous decrees from all his moveable headquarters."—Fouché, tom. ii., p. 137.