The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-28
TIE MOTHER or NAPOLEON l.

Carlo Bonaparte and Letitia Ramolini were
his parents. They had loved and been be-
trothed when she was only fourteen years of
age, but their families were active political
antagonists, and the marriage was deferred
for about two years, when the Paoli party. to
which Carlo belonged, became absolute mas
ters of Corsica, and active strife ceased.
They were welded in 1776 by the archbishop
and received the blessing of her parents at
the nuptials.
Count Marboeuf, the conqueror, was made
Governor of Corsica, and Carlo Bonaparte
and his family were the highest on the list of
personal friends. len years after that con-
quest the Corsican mobiles sent Carlo to Paris
as their representative in the popular branch
of the Government of France. Leaving Le-
tita in charge of their growing family, he
took Joseph and Napoleon with him.
They crossed the sea to Leghorn, and jour
neyed to Florence where Carlo received from
the Grand Duke Leopold letter to his sis
ter, Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France.
She made Carlo a welcome guest at YER
sailles, when Napoleon, then ten years old,
first looked upon that gorgeous palace of
which he was afterward the master. Carlo
left Joseph in a school at Autun, and through
the influence of Governor AIarbCeuf he was
allowed to place Napoleon in the military
academy at Brienne, where the afterward
eminent Pichegru was one of his in-
stIuctors.
Six years later heavy weight of misfor-
! tune fell upon Letitia Carlo was attacked
by the disease which terminated the life of
! his most illustrious son at st. Helena thirty
! six years afterwards. He went alone to
Montpelier In France for advice and reme-
dies, and there he died, in 1885, under the
hospitable roof of girlhood companion of
Letitia, the mother of the celebrated Marshal
! Junot
When Carlo died, Letitia was not thirty
five years of age, and had been the mother of
thirteen children. Five sons and three
daughters were yet living-a race of monarchS
who occupied thrones and lost them during
one of the most wonderful historical dramas,
enacted in the space of ten years, the world
has ever known. She saw them rise and fall
while her tresses were yet dark, and the
beauty of her youth yet bloomed on her
cheeks and sparkled in her eyes. Her
sons were Giuseppe, or Joseph, who
was made King of Naples in 1906, and of
Spain in 1908; Napoleon, who made himself
Emperor of the French and disposer OF
thrones in 1905; Luciano, or Lucien, who
alone refused crown, but accepred princi-
paity, with its title, from the Pope, in 1908;
Luigi, or Louis, made King of Holland in
1906, and refused the crown of Spain in 1909
and Girolama, or Jerome, who was made
King OF Westphalia in 1907, when that pro-
vince was erected into a kingdom. The
daughters were Maria Anna Eliza, who was
created sovereign OF Tuscany, with the
title Of Grand Duchess, in 1903; Carlotta
afterwsrd Maria Pauliue, who, as wife OF
Trince BoIghese, became the most illustrioui
Itelian princess of her time; and Caroline
NJ, ria ADnuEcjado, the wife of Murat, wh(
became Queen of Naples in 1908. The young
wldow OF Aiaccio had no reason to dream, IL
widest fancy. of the splendors that awaite1
I e.. - d
Gttle children; Jerome, the youngest, an in
fsnt in her AIMS She was left with seant
me; ms fer tLeir support and education. L
those she devoted all her energies with mar
Nellous success. Strength, we have observed
, was The prominent feature in her character
and this was displayed in the hour of nesd
Napoleon once said she had the head OF