Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-03-29
NAPOLEON BY APPIANI.

fifteen months. His occupations at that
place were much like those at Valence and
Ajaccio He performed his military duties
in desuitory way, but with more exacti-
tude than the French code of military
ethics at that time required. But military
duty demanded only a fraction Of his time;
the rest was given to that intense but
fragmentary study by which his mind was
, trained and supplied with wide range
of Information.
The ambition of Napoleon to be an au-
thor did not for the present subside. AT
one time he was on the eve of bringing
out at Paris his History Of Corsica" A
publisher agreed to do the work on condi-
ton Of sbare-and-share-alike In the pro-
ceeds. But, just at that juncture Mon
seigneur Marbnuf, Bishop of Sens, to
whom the work was dedicated, was deposed
from his see In disgrace. Here was a state
of things indeed, to dedicate great work
to disgracad ecclesiastic! The publica-
tion was accordingly postponed, and the
manuscript recast, with an inscription to
Paoli. This was plain Indication that
the authors mind, as between French
aespotism and Corsican Independence, was
strongly tending to the latter.
The winter of 17S8-S0 was passed by
Bonaparte in bis quarters at Auxonne. In
the following April that disturbance Oc.
Cured Mt Seurre which called forth a half.
months petty campaign from Napoleon Is
company, and ended in nothing 1t was
like the episode at Lyons, but less impor.
tant. As yet, Lieutenant Bonaparte had
never as a soldier drawn blood, or seen it
drawn by others. His restlessness now
bore him rapidly on to action. His passion
fcr 1nir cn,r,ofhinr md for .Sfoo1oyui ~ n
his destiny''-a fiction which he was al
ways dwelling upon-led him to commit
himself (ambiguously) to the Corsican pa
troits. His adroitness was such however,
THAT he kept ever a cord to his purposes
whereby he might recover himself for
Franco. In fact, he knew not what thing
he would be called to do. OF In what cause
his sword should first be actually un-
sheathel. His nature was always to avail
himself Of the first contingency. Napoleon
Is doubtless-such was his sleepless vigil
lance--the only great man Of history who
never lost an opportunity!
Bonaparte was with his regiment So
called of Iron," at Auxonne, when the
great Revolution in France began. Within
Z moath from the trifling event at Seurre,
the s1tates. General assembled at Versailles.
There, on the 9Th of May, 1889, the most
rem arkable political body of modern times
went into session, on the condition OF
FrInce and mankind. There was process
si"n of great men; a gathering to their
seats in the Hall of Menus; o seating of
six hundred representatives Of the people,
4 looking down from the gallery of the
young Baroness de Stael- Holstein ON the
leads Of Riquetti de Mirabeau, the philo-
sophie Volney, the lean Jean Paul Marat,
che big young Danton of Arcis- sur. Aube,
the 1.-the Camille, the Sea green Robes
pierre, and the rest. It was the beginning
Of the end Of muoh-the opening of u
small crevasse in the great dyke whereby a
-1Audal civilization had walled in the des-
Nnies OF mankind for centuries. Outside
Mat ancient wall lay the roaring ocean,
apon to rush in wave on wave till the del
tgo. decked with blood, should rise to the
Yannaoles of all palaces, and splash the
Aomes of all cathedrals
The bruit of the great event reached the
towns and cities and people of France.
Men wot not the thing they did. None
knew that the ancient order was rushing
% to doom. None imagined that the
French monarchy itself was going head
long down to Orous and eternal night
AL stood together on the crumbling verge
q the chasln, and supposed that they
you'd easily bridge it over with some new
rd-boards of finance and paper billets
Agislating bread for men. Vain delusions
- an awful hourl Surely salvation for
France and for mankind lies not that
10y, % Representatives Of the Peoplel 3.
Tho effects Of the extraordinary move
.pent thus begun for the reform Of the
eench nation we're strikingly diverse in
tie different parts Of the kingdom. France
Vas as yet Homogeneous in nothing. Tho
towns Of the South, under the loyal senti-
{ nGsnts Of the old Provencal race, received
10 news II one spirit, and the towns Of
& Ne North ii another. They Of the Gironde
& "a thS far southwest heard the tidings as q
toclamation q good news to men; while