The Chief Consul personally invited him to be present at the _Te Deum_ in Notre Dame, to attend afterwards at the consecration of some colours, and, lastly, to dine at the Tuileries.

Moreau answered, "I accept the last part of your invitation." A third great measure, adopted about the same period, was received with unqualified applause.

This was the establishment of a national system of education, the necessity of which had been much felt, since the old universities and schools under the management of the clergy had been broken up amidst the first violence of the Revolution.

The Polytechnic School, established under the direction of Monge, dates from this epoch; and furnished France, in the sequel, with a long train of eminent men for every department of the public service.
It was now also that the Chief Consul commenced the great task of providing France with an uniform code of laws.

He himself took constantly an earnest share in the deliberations of the jurists, who were employed in this gigantic undertaking; and astonished them by the admirable observations which his native sagacity suggested, in relation to matters commonly considered as wholly out of the reach of unprofessional persons.