The Emperor was now at Compiegne, where he made a decree containing several clauses of benefits and indulgences on the occasion of his marriage, setting at liberty many condemned, giving Imperial marriage dowries to six thousand soldiers, amnesties, promotions, etc.
"The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
We go, said he, from crimes to amnesties, from amnesties to crimes.
"History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"
F. A. M. Miguet
amnesties affecting the whole Realm require an act of the Realm.
"The New Germany"
George Young