Later, just as unexpectedly as it had begun, Napoleon's imprisonment ended. After much thought, General Dimabion ordered the release of Napoleon, but he could not leave the local area. He refused to immediately restore Napoleon to his duties in the Italian Army until he had shown, through his passion for the public interest and his personal actions, that he was worthy of our trust. Because his former boss said,"We believe that his military skills can still provide us with services…especially now that there are not many people as capable as him."
In fact, Napoleon was one of the 74 officers arrested after the fall of Robespierre. Later, due to unexplainable reasons, Salicetti, who had initially requested the arrest of Napoleon, not only withdrew all false accusations against Napoleon, but also recommended him to be the commander of the expeditionary army that liberated Corsica, perhaps through the mediation of his good friend Joseph Bonaparte! In any case, the British controlled the Mediterranean, and it was impossible for France to send reinforcements from the sea. On the other hand, Napoleon wanted to leave this hellish place, if not France. So in May 1795, he made a comeback and commanded the artillery unit in the West Army as a brigade commander!
Although he was relieved to be reinstated and given a new appointment in the army, he did not feel any pressure. However, Napoleon was not interested in being involved in the French civil war, because the mission of the West Army was to eliminate the French royalists and anyone who dared to rebel against the French government.
So he set off for Paris with Juno, his military schoolmate Marmont, and his brother Louis. Along the way, Napoleon delayed as much as possible until the end of the month. At this time, another revolution (20th) took place. The riots of the remnants of the Jacob party caused all of Napoleon's influential friends to flee the capital. Although Napoleon escaped the fate of being imprisoned again, the new government did everything it could to provoke him, removing all his duties in the artillery unit and transferring him to the infantry brigade as a humiliation...
At first, Napoleon was very angry. Then he asked for a vacation to recover his health. He stayed with Juno and Marmont in a remote hotel in Paris 'Latino Quarter. Napoleon even thought of applying for a position in the army of the Turks. Soon, however, he found a job in Paris in the Topographic Bureau of the National Salvation Committee. At the same time, he submitted a plan to attack Italy to the government. They were interested in the plan.
As for Napoleon's private life, he was still as clueless as ever. On August 1, 1794, his brother Joseph and Julie Clery got married in the village of Gus outside Marseille. No one else in the family attended the wedding, not even Letizia and Napoleon, who were not far from Nice. Only the bride's mother and her two younger sisters, Eugenie Desire and Onole, attended the wedding.
Through Joseph, Napoleon had early contact with this family and reached a tacit understanding that he would marry Eugenie Desire. Despite their many trysts, the Clerys were not very happy about the prospect of having another penniless Bonaparte in the family, especially the unsociable brigade commander. Therefore, Napoleon and Desire separated. No decision was made until the summer of 1795.
In mid-September, when Napoleon received orders to organize an eight-man military mission to Turkey to help the Sultan form the Imperial Artillery, his unstable state worsened. Napoleon had always hoped to get a better job than this. After learning that General Ballas was still in charge of national defense affairs and that the officers who had been dismissed for lack of the spirit of the Republic had been reinstated, Napoleon remained optimistic and seized the opportunity to visit Ballas at the Tuileries on October 3 (12th Portuguese).
At midnight of the same day, thousands of mostly working-class and royalist Parisians marched into the Tuileries with flags. At dawn the next day, tens of thousands of strong rebels were already in position. At this time, Ballas was anxiously waiting for reinforcements from the suburbs. In the early hours of the morning, he summoned Napoleon and ordered him to mobilize artillery to defend the Tuileries Palace. It was obvious that time was of the essence. Napoleon immediately dispatched Murat, a 27-year-old cavalry officer with a burly figure and dark curly hair, to carry out Ballas's orders. Murat had magically brought 40 powerful cannons and ammunition from the suburbs. Napoleon had carefully deployed these troops, and the regular army had also built barricades on the streets beside the city. However, because the old streets were too congested, he placed most of the heavy artillery opposite the Tuileries Palace, forming a wide fire network.
The first attack of the rebels had defeated the troops in Tuileries that had not been deployed in time, but the regular army held the position with guns. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the two sides were still in a stalemate. At three o'clock, the rebels launched a more powerful attack, breaking through the defense forces and threatening the safety of the National Assembly. After the Defense Corps regained control of the situation, they successfully repelled the advancing armed forces. Napoleon, who was waiting, gave the order to fire. Dozens of cannons exploded the rebels into pieces. It was impossible to deal with them with just muskets. The rebel army was in chaos and defeated. It took hours to clear the streets of 14,000 bodies, and as Napoleon wrote to Joseph: The enemy is attacking us from the Tuileries. We've wiped out quite a few of them. They killed 30 of us and injured another 60…Now everything is back to normal. Just like before, I didn't get hurt at all. I'm so happy.
The battle was over. The Tuileries Palace, the throne of the government, was safe. Barras was safer than ever. The last stronghold of the rebels was destroyed the next day, October 5.
A few days later, Ballas and the generals, including Napoleon, appeared before the grateful National Assembly, but Ballas did not mention any of their names. Of course, Napoleon, who was still unknown to most people, was very angry about this. At this moment, Fréron, the former Marseille commissioner who had agreed with Salicetti's arrest of Napoleon in Nice, suddenly took the podium and spoke to the thousands of people. He pointed not at the smiling Ballas but at Napoleon."Don't forget, citizen," he said gruffly,"General Napoleon... spent only one morning setting up the emplacement so cleverly, and you've seen the lucky results, so he's the real hero of the day!" Napoleon was stunned. He didn't expect that Frallon, who wanted to cut off his head a year ago, needed him to live because Frallon fell madly in love with Napoleon's sister, Polina. The names of Napoleon and Ballas echoed through the cheering crowd.
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