The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-03-02
copyright, 1885, by John Clark Ridpath.]


MZC$HT ~-B~ NW
IETITIA B~ONAPARTE, MOTHER OF NAPOLEON.
beast, skctched fiat on the sea, shows
many black spots on the side: they are
mountains. There are veins also, and
these are swift streams; small circles in a
few ~places-tOwns. The area of the broad
side Is 8 1870 square miles. 1t is more than
twice as big as Rhode Island-snaller
somewhat than Connecticut. And the
population exceeds a quarter Of a million.
OF the towns here marked, we are con-
cerned with only two; Corte and Ajaccio.
The former il the old home of the Buona-
parties; the latter, the place to which the
family removed just at the time when, by
the birth Of a man-child clad with thun-
der, it was destined to emerge from me
diaval obscurities, starlike, Sirius-like,
into the open sky of fame. Otherwise not
much need be said Of the island, its en-
placement in the sea, its general aspects
and possibilities.
The genesis of Napoleon touches a re-
markablc cthnic condition.. Nearly all of
the Wcst-Aryan races have contributed to
the population of the island in which he
was born. The substratum was perhaps
that old Etruscan life which preceded the
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of IN, island .Joscnb received a natont
inability from tho Grand duke of Tuscan
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son Carlo Buonanarte. whose rights We
confrmnd Inv tho a rcbhishon of Pisa ar
the KING of France.
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made II ;, hone of contention among II
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suzcrointv of Genoa. The people we
nartisans some favored the Genoes
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States. At the middle of the eighteen
century, there was turbulence. Insure
ton came, and rebellion, and attempt,