ABSTRACT
But besides those who had hitherto ruled in Paris someone else had worries: the victor of Italy who at that time was travelling among the magnificent villas around Milan. The 18th Fructidor, September 4, 1797, was the wretched rescue by the soldiers of a republic which was no longer protected by the people, in favour of a man who still had to wait and was very quick to find out how little thanks people wanted to give him. On the day of the ratification of the Treaty of Campo Formio, which he had concluded rapidly so that the Directory would not make it, the Directory appointed him head of an Army of England, in order to get him away from the Italian army.
