Napoleon used to meet Josephine at the house of the director, Barras, where she held a somewhat equivocal position.

And Barras,—he's in command of all the forces of Paris, and will soon be at the head of the government, also.

Was this the Jacobin conspiracy they had been told of—Barras the aristocrat and Moulins the democrat conspiring together!

Behold the stratagem forced by the ingenious and base-born Barras.