one o’clock in the morning
That formality was rather rough ; but every one knows of the events at Saint-Cloud . We will , therefore , dispense with relating them , and turn at once to the result , impatient as we are to get back to the real subject of our drama , from which the grand historical figure we have introduced diverted us for an instant . One word more . The 20th Brumaire , at one o'clock in the morning , Bonaparte was appointed First Consul for ten years . He himself selected Cambacérès and Lebrun as his associates under the title of Second Consuls , being firmly resolved this time to concentrate in his own person , not only all the functions of the two consuls , but those of the ministers . The 20th Brumaire he slept at the Luxembourg in president Gohier 's bed , the latter having been liberated with his colleague Moulins . Roland was made governor of the Luxembourg .