Some few hundreds of sturdy republicans alone recorded their opposition; and Carnot, who headed them, said he well knew he was signing his own sentence of exile.

But Napoleon was strong enough to dispense with any such severities; Carnot remained in safety, but out of office, until, many years afterwards, his services were tendered and accepted on the entrance of foreign invaders into France.

Buonaparte was proclaimed Consul for life on the 2nd of August.
Shortly afterwards, in the committee occupied with the Code, Napoleon entered upon a long disquisition in favour of the Roman law of adoption; urging with intrepid logic, that an heir so chosen ought to be even dearer than a son.

The object of this harangue was not difficult of detection.

Napoleon had no longer any hope of having children by Josephine; and meditated the adoption of one of his brother's sons as his heir.