The name was anti-republican: let it be changed to First Consul.

And whereas Sieyes condemned his grand functionary to the repose of a _roi faineant_, Bonaparte secured to him practically all the powers assigned by Sieyes to the Consuls for Peace and for War.

Lastly, Bonaparte protested against the right of absorbing him being given to the Senate.

Here also he was successful; and thus a delicately poised bureaucracy was turned into an almost unlimited dictatorship.
This metamorphosis may well excite wonder.

But, in truth, Sieyes and his colleagues were too weary and sceptical to oppose the one "intensely practical man." To Bonaparte's trenchant reasons and incisive tones the theorist could only reply by a scornful silence broken by a few bitter retorts.