The government did not even know the existence of regiments raised in the provinces: arms, clothing, discipline in every article, had been neglected.

The organisation of the army was very speedily mended.
The insurgent Chouans next claimed attention: and here the personal character of Napoleon gave him advantages of the first importance.

The leaders of those brave bands were disposed to consider such a soldier as a very different sort of ruler from the Pentarchy of the Luxembourg; and their admiration for his person prepared them to listen to his terms.
The first measures of the new government were obviously calculated to soothe their prejudices, and the general display of vigour in every branch of the administration to overawe them.

Chatillon, D'Antichamp, Suzannet, and other royalist chiefs, submitted in form.

Bernier, a leading clergyman in La Vendee, followed the same course, and was an acquisition of even more value.