Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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— Seal of Napoleon as emperor of the French from 1804 to 1814. Obverse. From the impression in the British Museum, London. and of the tribunate was nothing more than a continuous concert of admiration, affection, and gratitude toward the emperor, the tribunate, after having already suffered numberless primings, was obliged to receive, on September 18, 1807, the notification that the senate had decreed its absolute suppression. The tribunes terminated their political existence with the assurance that they had discovered in this act a new occasion for laying on the steps of the throne the expression of their admira-tion and their gratitude. In the year 1808 a great purging of the
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ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN FRANCE. 51 judiciary was undertaken; two years later, the Bastille itself, with the detested lettres de cachet, was re-established in the shape of eight stateprisons, to which any man could be consigned without judicial sentence upon a mere decision of the secret council. The censorship received an expansion which it had not had even under the old monarchy. A general director was appointed with supervision over all bookshops and printing-offices; the printing-offices were restricted to a fixed number, the printers were appointed and sworn as officers of govern-ment, and for every work put to press there was required a special

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