Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-02

sure mark of genius! He enclosed to the Abbe the first two chapters of his al- legged History of Corsica. the cacog- raphy only being surpassed by tho hereSy of the rhetoric and the massage of gram mar!
 We half suspect that tho bottom mo- two of this business was not tho hope of being a historian. but rather tho dis tinction of having correspondence with a great man. However this may be, tho Able indulged Napoleon, wrote to him. advised him to study further. and then to rewrite his work. Not only did tho historical ambition havo the Lieutenant, but the romantic also. He took some what to novels, and for the first time falling in love. determined to write a novel. At tho house of Madame du Co lombier. he made the acquaintance of her beautiful daughter. and foll i'll love with her-after the manner of all young lieutenantS. The flame of this passion presently went out, but traces of 1t are seen in his correspondence until what time-ceaSing to love Madamoiselle Co lombier - he turned peSsimist, de- nounced love aS Il mockery, and in par ticular as the drawback to human am- bitionl
 In the midst of the fitful gleams of this cratic life may be seen burning the coalS of that furnace heat which the years have not yet oxtinguished. Tho student Bonaparte became pale. living reality. He supplied himself with the works of the leading authors of the age. V1, Tl, fFx- NN one starving He made himself familiar with the writings of Noltaire and Neck CT. The one he followed through the mazes of the new French learning, and the other through the intricacies of prac- tical finance. For months together, ill his lodgings and about tho barracks, he might be seen, with book i'll hand, nut tering as ho read, penciling the margins, approving and condemning the doctrine, according te his judgment or whim. There never was time in his life when amount of intellectual products than during the after part of l7S6 and the first half of tho following year.
 CoincidCnt with the date of the Lyons episode, came n military order sending the Regiment La Fere from NalenCe to Douai, in French Flanders, three hum dred and ninety miles distant Here Ma poleon found himself exposed to north ern blasts and unfamiliar hardships In his correspondence he complains bitter ly of his situation. He got fever of both mind and body. and the effects of it lasted for several years. His unhap- nd ha by every means i'll his power to escape from the situation. He would get away or kill himselfl Nor were very powerful reasons wanting why he should go else where.
 The Bonaparte family i'll Corsica had fallen by this time into desperate straits. Joseph had undertaken to build up a winc-trade with Italy, but had failed as he did with most things else. Lucien, 0 student at Brienne, was doing his best to get a transfer to Aix, where he might substitute priestly for a military edu- cation. Madame do Bonaparte. now thirty seven years of age. was hoping against hope that the government would pay her the petty stipend due for the care of her mulberry orchards, but nC | payment was made.
 There came want into the household. Lieutenant Bonaparte, making the con- dition of his family plausible excuse, sought. and in February of l7SS, ob' tained. leave of absence to visit Corsica. Thither he went, in poor health and
 general morbidity of mind. By this time
 his arbitrary character had begun tC show itself in full force. Once at home
 he played the dospot He hectored al
 his kinsfolk. with the exception of th'
 mother, and she could hardly withstand
 his impetuosity, willfulnesS and gloom
 Home again after an absence of near
 ly nine years, tho young officer busieC
 himself moro with things great thal
 things little. He was moro concerned
 with the political condition of the work
 than with tho daily needs of his moth
 CTS house. Ho dwelt moro on the stat
 of Corsica than on tho emptiness of Ma
 dame Bonaparte's Cuisine-moro on tn
 wees ox AiaeGis than on those Rf- hi