BONAPARTE. "Citoyens... Citizens... did you hear THE CLOCK? - Lot 438

BONAPARTE. "Citoyens... Citizens... did you hear THE CLOCK? Do you know, do you know what time, what time it is? If you don't, see LA PENDULE DU JOUR, the counterpart of the BAROMÊTRE. See the hour of ignorance and slander that has struck for newspapers. The conscripts' departure time delayed, and for good reason. The hour of the Forced Borrowing, which they say won't be ringing any time soon. The hour for the payment of rentiers, which will not ring, it is said, until after general peace. The hour of union and concord, almost wiped off the dial. The hour of peace, the hand directed by Buonaparte was going to mark it for us; but the ex-directors have broken the cogs, and it is said that the Pendule will no longer mark that hour for us." Impr. chez Denis, rue de la Vieille Bouclerie, N°23. "Woe is me, if I prove that Buonaparte had made peace and that the Directoire didn't want it.... We were given the comedy of the Congress, the tragedy of Rastadt..." (Rastadt Congress 1799)