Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1867-11-23
NAPOLEON's MOTHER.

ofinhabtants. Its people are mostly of Ital
ian origin, and the products of the island are
cattle, timber, honey wax and olive oil. Ow-
ing to :hc careless aud unscicntiic agriculture
the people are generally poor; and few, even
of the nobility, arc able to live in liberal
style. The great majority Of the Inhabitants
are ignorant aud superstitous, and they have
been distinguished for certain turbulence
and icrocily Of character. As they have ncy.
cr been powerful enough to maintain their in
dependence nor willing to submit to a foreign
power, the island has been the seat of war, iu-
trigues and civil discussions.
The maiden name Of Mapoeon's mother
was I.ctzia RamoliDo. She was born in Cor.
sica, of respectable but not opulent family
and was married in her sixteenth year to Car
10 Bonapartc, n Corsican gentleman of her
0wa rank. About the time of her marriage,
the people Of Corsica, lead by the heroic Pas
cal Paoli, resolved to throw oft allegiance to
Genoa, and become an independent State
They succeeded for ten years in maintaining
the struggle nor would they have again been
subject to foreign dominion if Genoa had
not sold her rights tn France. and thus Sc
curcI the overthrow Of the patriotic party
Ga,lo Bonnpnrte WAS one Of Paoli's brAvcSt
ani most trusted oNi .ers "A man wise in c,un
Gil and brave in tho Gr!d lis young wife.
Lctizia, shared both his sentiments and his
perils On one occasion, it is related, when
the Corsicans had been defeated in battlo, she
was Obliged to fly with her husband to the
She rods t;atne@ss @ in the interior of the island.
arms an infant son. AS the e1iefiiyd ~. her
hot pursuit, the march was swift, prrious aod
-naipful Crossing u river one day, her horse
shore that she coutsf it appeared to those ON
letting 80 the child. The soldiers crii'ndf ~ 9tvy
her to DO so; but, with prodigious effort
she regained her saddle, and mnuopcd her
horse 50 well that she brought her infant sa...
to shore, amid the shouts Of her comrades.
IL lie enid that she carried in her arms that
day was Joseph, her first born, who was after.
wards King of Spain
Peace was declared few weeks after th;,
night, and Carlo Bonapartc returned to Aiaccio
with his little family. This was in the n,ontl,
OF June. 1863. One day in the followny
August Madame Bomparte's second son, NJ.
Poieon, was born 1t is curious fact that
napoleon narrowly escaped being horn sub
Jrct to tho King of England If the British
uovernment had been prompt to succor Paoli.
.s was expected, Corica had been British
slana' ana Napolco". perhaps, British of.
hn
youngest Of whom was born when ste was bu,
thirty four years of age OF these thirteen
children, eight lived to maturity.
It WIS from his mother that Napo]eon RI
naap'rte derived the force if not the talent
which enabled him 70 booomc tho conouernr
OF Europe lie himself said Of hoy: :. Sh.
had tho head Of a man on the shoulders of !.
woman; she administered everything with
degree OF sagacity not to be expected from her
age or sox. Her tenderness was joined with
severity. She punished and rewarded all
alike; tho good, tho bad,, nothing escaped
her. Losses, privations, fatigue, bad no cf-
feet upon ncr; sho endured all, braved all -
All what woman! Where look Tor her
equal"
And at ST. Helena he sail "My mother
had grand character, force and elevation Of
soul, and noble pride. She Watched With
solicitude uncxampled over the first imprcs
sions Unworthy sentiments withcrcd in her
presence She instructed her children only
what was grand and elevated Fasehood she
held in abhorrcnce, and every other trait
which indicated base tendencies. She knew
how t., punish and how 70 reward she watched
narrowly over everything that concerned her
children"
The portraits VIC have Of hor appear to JUS
tify this description. Sho had a remarkably
long head, and that long irni-sct nose which
indicates strength of character, and there is
IN her connteDanco All expression of serenity.
high breeding and sef.control which marks
the superior woman.
In hor thirty.ffth year l,er husband was
seized with disease hereditary in his family
~ 5--ssacalioer In his stomach, of which Napoleon
himself died. Hc went to France formeli-
seal aid and proceeded as faras Montpelier,
near the place whore llissson, Napoleon. was
Spnfsuing his military studies. Napoleon was
summoned from the military school to his
! fhthers dying bed, and arrived just after he
haa breathod his last.
IN. The Bonaparte family was not rich, but
their little income was SO carefully admins
{ tered by the young mother that it sun6osl for
their wants Joseph. the,oldest Of her chill
stdren, was nearly eighteen when sho lost her
.luabsndy Napoleon was sixteen Lucien and
!; Eliza were old enough to 20 to school in
Erapce; but her four youngest children were
still Az home.
Almost all tho lifeo Madame Bonaparte
sssgass d sSorro. When the French Revolution
.wssg aging, the people Of Corsica; instigatcd
lBSys ssoe 5vensyabls Paoli,S declared against the
republic of obesplerre; and .Ajaocio was the
llspll9,s ttoyn on the island whioh., refused to