and Louis XVI., "should inspire the need of sustaining the newly accomplished work and its acquired preponderance." On the 18th of Brumaire (19-11-1799), France came into port; the Revolution must be spoken of only as a final, fatal and inevitable tempest.[6250] "When that work, well done and written in a right direction, appears, nobody will have the will or the patience to write another, especially when, far from being encouraged by the police, one will be discouraged by it." In this way, the government which, in relation to the young, has awarded to itself the monopoly of teaching, awards to itself in relation to adults, the monopoly of history.
V.On Censorship under Napoleon.
Measures against writers so called and popularizers.
-- Censorship, control of theaters, publications and printing.
-- Extent and minuteness of the repression .-- Persistency in direction and impulsion .-- The logical completeness and beauty of the whole system his final object .-- How he accomplishes his own destruction.
If Napoleon in this manner takes precautions against those who think, it is only because their thoughts, should they be written down, might reach the public,[6251] and only the sovereign alone has the right to talk in public.

Between writer and readers, every communication is intercepted beforehand by a triple and quadruple line of defenses through which a long, tortuous and narrow wicket is the only passage, and where the manuscript, like a bundle of suspicious goods, is overhauled and repeatedly verified after having obtained its free certificate and its permit of circulation.

Napoleon declares "the printing-office[6252] to be an arsenal which must not be within the reach of everybody...

It is very important for me that only those be allowed to print who have the confidence of the government.

A man who addresses the public in print is like the man who speaks in public in an assembly, and certainly no one can dispute the sovereign's right to prevent the first comer from haranguing the public."-- On the strength of this, he makes publishing a privileged, authorized and regulated office of the State.