The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-08-29

CARLO BONAPARIE, FATHER OF NAPOLEON.
running his dramatic reoitals We know
indeed, out of the nature of the case,
that his representations of his own
child-charaoter were in the main correct.
The young Buonaparte was from a
babe abrupt and quarrelsome. His will
fulness was extreme. The likelihood is
that he never once in his life willingly
obeyed anybody Near his death, al
Longwood, he declared that he was new
er afraid. His child-passion was fire.
quently excited against Joseph, over
whom he exercised a censorious sway
from the time when they toddled togeth
er in the birth-room or fought i'll the
yard. He appears to have loved his
mother, and to have obeyed her i'll mo-
| rose and mathematical way; but in his
last talk he indicates that his conduct rs
child toward the mother was rather
prudential than atfectionate. He bears
witness that the RamOlino lionCss was
tender in the treatment of him, as we'll
as severe and just.
To their fourth child, Carlo Buona-
parte and his wife gave the name Of
Napoleon. At the first it was Napoleone.
In this form the possessOr retained it
until, flaring up in Paris in the charac-
ter of young Jacobin, he threw away
the italian and aristocratic fictions in
his name, to become plain, republican
NAPOLEON BoNAPARTE.
The first teaching of the child Bona
parte was given by his mother. Then he
was sent, in his sixth year, to a child's
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the parental threshold in that same ar
bitrary and belligerent mood which
characterized him ever. He fought with
his schoolmates, among whom he ap-
peared with no sign of neatness in his
clothing, and nothing debonair in his
manner.
At this time, beside his parents, he
had two important relatives. One Of
these was Lucien Buonaparte, brother
of his grandfather Joseph; and the other
was Joseph Fesch, afterwards the Car
dinal Fesch, half brother of his mother.
The latter was studious lad of twelve,
who took an interest in his sisters son;
and the former had wealth and influence
in the island, both of which he was
willing to bestow on the Bonaparte
schoolbuy. Young Fesch aided him with
his lessons, and exercised conservative
influence Oh his temper. How little
might it be fOreseen that the younger of
these twain, with his surly look and
long hair and stockings down over his
shoes in the dust Of the playground,
should one day, from an imperial palace
in the most splendid city in the world
despatch his elder playmate as ambassa-
dor to the Pope of Romel
What were the civil and social influ-
ences around ths schoolbouse of Bona.
,artef The sentiments "a THAT place ars
among the most potent and enduring
forces of life. The child nature imbibes
anconsciously the prevailing principles
Of the hour; and the character is form
ing while tho first hesitant words are
conned from the primer The boy Napo.
leon had around his schoolroom-as
around his cradle-an agitated atmos-
pierre 1t was banked with the receding
clouds Of revolution. There was light
ming on the rim, and blood on the
fringes.
The majority of the Corsicans had &C.
repted the French Nominations. Some
still remembered Genoa with affection;
and many sighed for independence.
Among the latter We're the Buonapartes.
The feeling of regret for the lost cause
began to wane about the time that Ma
poleon was sent to school; but there was
still III his heart drop of inherited bit
terness on account OF the French CON
quest. lie looked back angrily at the
terrible conditions surrounding him in
his childhood, As late as his twentieth