Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-02-17

and in May of 1768, Corsica was form ally delivered to the French. The pa triots were scattered, and their leader found refuge in England.
 It was in the midst of these agitatlons, civil and military, that the Buenaparte family emerged clearly to view Carlo Maria Buonaparte was born in Ajaecio, March 29, 1746. At the time of the fall- ure of the revolutionary movement and the loss of his country independence, he was twenty-two years of age. Mean. while, in his eighteenth year, he had fallen in love with Letitia Ramolino, daughter of a well-to-do Corsican peas ant. With her, nature had been prodigal of all gifts. She was beautiful to de- gree; strongly marked in feature and person with the exceIlenoies of the Ital- ian race.
 Of the Ramolino family, not much is known. Suffice it that Carlo di Buona- parte-though noble-recklessly took Letitia in marriage when she was but fifteen years of age. She brought him her beauty and portion of properties, but no additional rank She is said to have been girl of heroic qualities, queenly in her bearing rather silent III manner, healthy as to her bodily life, and ignorant of sentiment. Her face, preserved in Q hundred forms of art, shows unmistakably the origin of that NapoIeonie visage with which the whole world will be familiar to the end of hu- man records
 The character of Carlo di Buonaparte, though discoyerable only in fragments, shows mixture of courage and adven- ture. He was q projector of many things "a visionary. His education was ob- tained in Italy. He had been a student at Rome, and afterward at Pisa, where he prepared himself to be an advocate, and obtained reputation for youthful eloquence. The University of Pisa con- ferred on him, about the time of tho birth of Napoleon, the degree of Doctor of Laws
 The collapse of the patriot cause had induced Carlo Buonaparte, as measure of prudence, to leave Ajaecio and retire to Corte. The latter, being an inland
  ton, was more deeply peryaded with the patriotic spirit than was the low land region about Ajacoio. The coast country gave itself up freely to the French domination. During the first five years of the married life of Carlo he osoillated with his young family back and forth between the two towns, final ly-When safety came with peaee-fix. ing himself at Ajaccio. This was in the early part of 1769.
 Meanwhile, before this removal, three children had appeared, in rapid sucoes. sion, at the hearthstone of Carlo Buona. parte. All of these were born at Gorte The first was a daughter, Elise, whose birth was in 1765. This child died iM infancy. as did also the next, Marie Anne, who was born about two years later. Then, on January 7th, 1768. came the first son, and to him the pa. rents gave the name of Joseph Nabu. Hone, or, as secondary spelling would have it, Joseph Napoleone, or, Napo- leon. The latter name, though appear. ing in the birth-record of the family, was dropped in the case of the oldest son, Joseph only being retained. It was the custom of the age, in the case of tha death of children, to repeat their names for those born afterward. Nor was there anything exact, as in the customs of the nineteenth century, in the spelling -em. ployed.
 The surname, as we'll as the given names, ill the family of Buonaparte fuo- tuated into many forms, and gave rise to some discussion and confusion after wards. One story ran to the effect that Napoleon Bonaparte was born January 7th, 1768, and Joseph about nineteen months afterwards, that is, August 10th, 1769. It was believed at one time that the father interchanged the dates of the birth of his two eldest sons, ill order to get Napoleon into the military academy before his tenth year-a thing necessary under the law But 1t is now known that no such thing occurred. The only ground for the invention of the fiction was the fact that Joseph's middle name was originally NabuIione, and that this name, in modified form, was after wards conferred on the younger son.
 The estate of Carlo di Buonaparte, though augmented by his intermarriage with the Ramolino family, was unequal to his tastes and desires. He possessed a property at Corte. and another in Ajac- oio. To the latter be came back ill the early part of 1769, and established him. self in the house where Napoleon was born. The homestead di Buonaparte was favorably situated. The house is still in excellent preservation. It is four stories in height From the upper windows one may see the ocean. The building is stuc- coed, is rectangular, and has flat roof, with a small cupola, from which the flag of France was flying at the time when the first emperor of the French came into the world.
 About the birth of great men cycles of fiction grow. Friends and enemies alike invent significant circumstances. The traducers of Napoleon have said that he was illegitimate-tha his father was the French marshal Marbguf. They also