32 (1807).

"I saw one day a physician, an honest man, unexpectedly denounced for having stated in a social gathering in the town some observations on the medical system under the existing government.

The denunciator, a French employee, was the physician's friend and denounced him because he was afraid of being denounced himself."-- Count Chaptal, "Notes." Enumeration of the police forces which control and complete each other.

"Besides the minister and the prefect of police Napoleon had three directors-general residing at Paris and also in superintendence of the departments;..

besides, commissioners-general of police in all the large towns and special commissioners in all others; moreover, the gendarmerie, which daily transmitted a bulletin of the situation all over France to the inspector-general; again, reports of his aids and generals, of his guard on supplementary police, the most dangerous of all to persons about the court and to the principal agents of the administration; finally, several special police-bodies to render to him an account of what passed among savants, tradesmen and soldiers.