Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-04

NAfbAhsfN AT TNlNlf-IMo
the uonunental trnues remained whom
Napoleon, In, Ills teeth year, arrived At the
ga,pa nevaa put under charge OF tho
Able Chatdep ipehhow Of the General
Marboaui Tho latter devoted himself TO
Tho Intervals OF the huonaparte family,
and paid palt Of Tho o1ponsen
The plan Of Carlo Bnoneprto and his
trlOnd The conceal wsg 10 give 10 both tho
boys military education. II was deemed
expodiont Thar tbty should lrst learn
French in tho school Of thn Able ut Au-
tun. 10 this work they woro put ON their
arrival, aud In about tbroo months thoy
wero rockonsd sufficiently advanced to bc.
gin regular pouruc OF instruction In some
military cstablithmeut
Meanwhile The father and Mnrbmuf had
gone 10 Versailles, and wern hssiduous In
their efforts 10 ret THO boys established ma
pensioners The solicitation was that the
young fellows should DO educated At the
expense OF tho etats, Mnrbunf invented
q feiion fooked with fact, about tho no
hility OF his wards, aud the petition was
granted finally as 70 Napoleon. But Jo
soph had now passed the limit Of his eloy.
enth year and WAS no longer eligible
unless by violation Of law, lilo must thoro-
fore he diverted 10 the priesthood, while
the younger brother WAS assigned at tho
public charge, to tho military academy at
Brionne-la Chnpclle, on the right bank Of
tho Aubo IA tho department Of the same
name, a hundred and eighteen miles from
Paris Thithor no was transferred in tho
lntter part OF April, 1879, and was admit
ted as q cadet
At Autun, the chief buainosa had boon
to teach him French, lie applied himself
closely to this task, but not very success.
fully, He learned TO speak French, bro
konly, with an Italian accent. To the ond
OF his llfo ho never acquired nice knuwl-
edge Of the adopted tongue His gram
mar was broken, his composition thun,
dersttuoS, and his spsliing horotieal His
practical knowledge Of tho language which
ho was destined % use for forty two years
In hia intercourse with mel was sufficient,
hut his mind was never tolerant Of tsGhnl.
oalitios Those no slurred over with I'm,
potuons Impotence, us though they were
inslPnifcant details 1T for children,
This trait OF nogleotinR the ezaotitudos
was strongly manifested from Napoleon 4
childhood He went As far ~ the practical
IN whatever subject no tOuohed but hAy.
ing soized thus much ha cared for moth
ing else. Ho doalfod correctness IN others,
for that wAA useful 70 him, but ~ for
himself, ho wonttd only aggregate rosults
aud knowledge Of their practical advbn.
tago All 0uthou have oopmontod on tho
inaccuracies and lApsas ID the Napoleonlo
correspondence end manuscripts II bu-
came hls hAbifWto Blrr over, In his rapid
way, the errors IN his Writing: and his
| arrogance refipnd 20 donvihoe him that,
while correct sreliln9 4hB an accomplish
ment in podag5sues, IL was rather n fault
In great men.
His teacher, the Able, has left sketch
Of tho lad, NJ he was ct Autpn, Dntiroly
consistent with what we know Of his an
teoedont and subsequent character. Tho
young Bonaparto 10 Described by his mas.
ter az being OF sololnn dsmoanor; rarely
laughing; never happy or mirthfuli no
disposition for playing; proud and solitary;
easily wounded; always rctentful learning
with lightning Ike rapidly, but stopping
short Of eorf9othoas; vain " bis f9oultles;
patriotism almosL morbid; disliking the
powerful forsign race With which his lot
had been cast, looking back repeatedly TO
Corsica, and (must unboyllke) thinking
more OF bis country than no did OF hia
home md mother
Already, before leaving Autun, tho pale
little BonnpApte fell into frequent quarrels
with his French schoolnatcs about the
Coniean rovolutlonl Thoy insultod him
with the charge that his oountrymon had
bscn cOwards-slf0 thoy would have won
their Independence TO this no answered
angrlly that II tho French had outnum.
bored his people only four 10 one the In
yaders would have been d0fented. Mil.
tary calculation already In bis childhood
ho had made Paoii god; and IL u record
cd of him that DO said IN one OF his play.
ground disputes: "Paoli was q great gen
eral, and should much like to emulate
hlInp'
Tho military academy At Brienne was
one OF ten OF like kind recently established
In tho kingdom. Besides theso, there were
two higher schools one az Paris and the
other al La Flecho. This system had au-
poraodod another which had failed on nc- /
count OF its unpOpuiarlty. The military
education and tho right thereto was
plum for the mobiles Boys Of tho Third
lsstate had therein no part or lot In tho
schools we're gathered tho weakened repro
duotions Of o inoribund nobility. Tho
governors OF the schools were even "a tho
cadets Tho Institutions degonerated I'M
IA there was popular reaction against
them. Thers was a reform, headed By the
Church. New schools were aAiablfshed,l
aud monks were put ia charge Of thcin'
At tho timo when the 10y Nppcicon
went 70 Briennc, tho remarkable condi-
ton was presented Of system Of military
schools In charge OF tho monsstio fathers.
The condition wns e n West Point and
Annapolis Ghauh ha put nndsr thrAda