The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10

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7--s, cadet Bonaparte. in the autumn
!. - was promoted to the Military
.,,, in Paris. ne was in his sixteenth
He had now made his way BY
Us beginning with his tenth year.
[..~ his native place to the capital of
r-,,.e. and il Of France, then Of the
-.,-5 Three months at Autun. four
,---aud more-at Brienne. and now to
il school in Paris. At the last named
.,.-s he was destined to remain less than
war Thus far he seems to be rising
..r,~4 a career of activity, if not of dis
.-e,ion: but there never was time when
4. pathway was more clouded than dur
~, his stay at LEcole Militaire.
The school at which he now became a
s,r3snt was the best in the kingdom. 1t
ts4 been reformed and renewed as a re-
IN. Of recent agitations; and the institu-
il, was well fitted at this time to be the
+-fshjng ground for young military as
,i-s7t L,Ecole Militaire de Paris held
ia relation TO that of Brienne and the
others Of college to academy. The eurric-
gnn was more ample and the methods
mare rational in the first than those pur-
.,sa in the provincial institutions. Here
t7s academic training of Napoleon Bona
oa-te-as that of his younger brother, Luz
,is, afterward-was completed. From
,5is school he was to be delivered, as if
nv second birth, to the world.
The social character of Napoleon now
began to show itself more distinctly. Back
.t Brienne he had been introduced by
Cen. Marboeuf to some private families
Of distinction. Them he impressed as
na,ujar. forceful and solitary genius. more
ssrable of heroic dreams and boyish
-oo1o1ogue than of polite conversation or
sosial amenities. Going to Paris, his ac-
,rsintance was somewhat enlarged Mar
foauf.s nephew. the Bishop of Autun, now
lived at Versailles, and that worthy was
glad after the lapse of five years to re-
geive his former pupil. greatly grown in
intellect and person, but Virtually the
-ame in demeanor. Elise, the sister OF
Bonaparte. had meanwhile been brought
our from Corsica, and was now lileHlper
at the Royal School for Girls, al Saint-Cyr.
:, that the young man had now few
friends and some social advantages.
For the rest he pursued in Paris the
same self-centered life as at Brienne. he
was a hard sudent-in his way. He stll
disprized the polite branches of education
in favor of the exact sciences and geog-
ranhy In humane inquiry, his sole en-
deavor was to master history His study,
however, in this field did not reach histor-
ical generalization or a broad philosophy
he stopped with the individual. lie dWelt
with interest and enthusiasm upon the
lives of great men. Plutarch he knew al
most by heart The well-known stories
which in that age passed for history he
oonned with the passion of zeaiot
IN after life, the peculiar effect of this
discipline was manifested in all of Napo-
Icons work and policy. out of his his
Il tory proper he branched in only one direc-
ti1n-pOlitics. He became rather expert
IN the political platitudes and persifiage
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
by intuition. His mind flashed out,
Il nghning-like in this direction and in
Il that. the blaze Of it illumined many
dark and blood-splashed place; but from
4 that prodigious intellect there was never
4 dI1used a broad and universal light.
Much Of this must be attributed to his
nborn character, and something to the
manner of his education.
We must here allow also for the reac-
genius in boyhood Napoleon saw and
Il felt Paris for ten months in his 10th year.
4 1t was a revelation; hut he seems not to
have been greatly affected by it. So much
Il was he concentrated on himself-so
strongly was the concept of a destiny
smuggling to form itself within him
Il that even the glare. the magnificence, the
Il charm. the seductive vices, of the metro
polls were hardly noticed by the Corsican
in his onward course.
The year 1885 was in all respects crit
al 10 Bonaparte His course at the mil
Il 'ary school ended with August of that
year He was admitted to his final exami-
nation almost precisely at his sixteenth
birthday. Nearly six months before this
time his father, who had found tempo
rary residence at Montpelier came to the
mail scene The visionary and unsuccess-
ful Buonaparte had discovered a refuge
for himself al the chateau Of Madame Per
mon mother of the Duchess d Abrantes
a Of great fame There. on the oath of Feb
4 ruary he expired, of a chronic malady,
perhaps cancer of the stomach-most fatal
nremonition of what should happen to his
. famous son thirty-siX years afterwards.
Al his deathbed were his eldest son Jo-
seph and that other Jospeh who should
become the Cardinal Fesch. The latter,
low a priest would fain administer some
consolation of religion to the dying man;
nut Charles Bonaparte would not accept
me solace-preferring to die, as he had
Aged, in absolute unbelief.
Hard was this stroke of death on the
members of Buonaparte's family. From
81 ne time of his union with Letitia Ramo-
mo-a period of twenty years-thrteen
ahdren had been born. Eight of these
gre living; three were in France, and
we with the mother in Ajaccio All
5efe at the door of penury 1t is law of
nature and of man that every mother
81 sao bears thirteen children is a heroine;
glf Madame de Bounaparte had now to go
l'o the fields and plant mulberry trees
W living! Marboeuf finally prevailed
WIN the authorities to make Joseph Bon
epafte also 1--WE will now drop the Italian
p1m huonaparte) a military pensioner.
"ut the fathers death and Napoleon's
l.v'est counterveiled the project and JOS
lA was doomed to remain a cadet of
IT, church. For Lucien, who developed a
NSoh Tor polite studies and wished to
81 :. priest scholarship was obtained for
s ~. school at Brienne. Such is the per-
IsitE of fate. AS to Napoleon. it was
7tg7l that instead of going into the navy
81 Nsraho had recommended and as Mar
q ~! mad wished, he should become in
& l1ai lieutenant in the artillery. After
n 4, graduation, he should be assigned TO
H. regiment La Fere, stationed at Va