I was immediately placed at the head of his Cabinet.
I spoke to him the same evening respecting the insurrection of the Venetian territories, of the dangers which menaced the French, and of those which I had escaped, etc.

"Care thou' nothing about it," said he; -- [He used to 'tutoyer' me in this familiar manner until his return to Milan.]-- "those rascals shall pay for it.

Their republic has had its day, and is done." This republic was, however, still existing, wealthy and powerful.
These words brought to my recollection what I had read in a work by one Gabriel Naude, who wrote during the reign of Louis XIII.

for Cardinal de Bagin: "Do you see Constantinople, which flatters itself with being the seat of a double empire; and Venice, which glories in her stability of a thousand years?
Their day will come." In the first conversation which Bonaparte had with me, I thought I could perceive that he was not very well satisfied with the preliminaries.

He would have liked to advance with his army to Vienna.