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suit or recent agltatlons; and the Inst1- tuition was at this time we'll fitted to be the finishing ground for young mili- tary aspirant. L'Eeole Militaire de Paris held the relation to that of Brienne and the others of college to academy The curriculum was more ample and the methods moro rational in the first than those pursued in the provincial institu- tions. Here the academic training of Napoleon Bonaparte - as that of his younger brother Lucien afterwards- was completed From this school he was to be delivered. as if by a second | birth, to the world.
 The social character Of Napoleon now began to show itself more distinctly. r Back at Brienne he had been introduced by General Marbeuf to some private families of distinction Them he im- pressed as a peculiar. foreeful and soli- tary genius, more capable of heroic dreams and boyish monologue than of polite conversation or social amenities. Going to Paris, his acquaintance was somewhat enlarged. MarbRuf' nephew, the Bishop of Autun, now lived at Yer sailles; and that worthy was glad, after the lapse of five years, to receive his for mer pupil, greatly grown in intellect and person, but virtually the same in demeanor Elise. the sister of Bona parte. had meanwhile been brought out from Corsica, and was now member of the Royal School for Girls at Saint Gyr So that the young man had now 8 few friends and sone social advantages
 For the rest, he pursued in Paris the same self centered life as at Brienne. He was hard student--in his way. He still dispri2ed the polite branches of edu- cation in favor of the exact sciences and geography In humane inquiry, his sole endeavor was eo master History. His study howeves. in this field did not reach historical generalization or 8 broad philosophy He stopped with the individual He dweit with interest and enthusiasm upon the lives of great men. Plutarch he knew almost by heart The well known stories which in that age passed for history he eonned with the passion of Eealot
 In after life. the peculiar effect of this discipline was manifested in all of Ma poleon's work and policy Out of his history proper he branched in only one direction-politics. He became rather expert in the political platitudes and persihage of the times. To the end of his life he was never capable of high and abstract views; but he knew all special things as if by intuition. His mind flashed out. lightning like, in this direction and in that; the blaze of it H. lumined many a dark and blood -splashed place; but from that prodigious intellect there was never diffnsed broad and universal light Much of this must be attributed to his inborn character; and something to the manner of his educa. tion.
 The year l785 was in all respects crit ical to Bonaparte His course at the Mili- tary School ended with August of that year He was admitted to his final ex- animation almost precisely at his six teenth birthday. Nearly six months be- fore this time his father, who had found temporary residence at Montpellier came to the final scene. The visionary and unsuccessful Buonaparte had dis covered a refuge for himself at the chateau of Madame Permon, mother of the Duchess d'Abrantes of great fame. There. on the 24th of February. he ex- pired. of chronic malady, perhaps can cer of the stomaoh-most fatal premoni- tion of what should happen to his famous son thirty six years afterwards
 Hard was this stroke of death on the members of Buonaparte's family. From the time of his union with Letitia Ra- molino-a period of twenty years-thir- teen children had been born. Eight of these were living; three were in France. and five with the mother in Ajaocio. All were at the door of penury. It is a law of nature and of man that every mother