If he left behind the ardently republican Kleber, he also left his old friend Junot: if he brought back Berthier and Marmont, he also ordered the return of the almost Jacobinical Desaix.
Sir Sidney Smith having gone to Cyprus for repairs, Bonaparte slipped out unmolested.

By great good fortune his frigates eluded the English ships cruising between Malta and Cape Bon, and after a brief stay at Ajaccio, he and his comrades landed at Frejus (October 9th).

So great was the enthusiasm of the people that, despite all the quarantine regulations, they escorted the party to shore.

"We prefer the plague to the Austrians," they exclaimed; and this feeling but feebly expressed the emotion of France at the return of the Conqueror of the East.
And yet he found no domestic happiness.

Josephine's _liaison_ with a young officer, M.Charles, had become notorious owing to his prolonged visits to her country house, La Malmaison.