Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-30

favorite classmaJe, was now graduated far below him at l. 'Ecole Militaire. But the grade was sufficient; and he was en- ablcd with his commission as lieutenant to choose tso artillery as his arm of tho service.
 For two months August to October, 17S5l the restraints of red tape held back Lieutenant Bonapartc from going to his place. His means gave utterly out. At last, late in tho fall of l7S5, he set ont by conveyance from Paris as far as Lyons, but was then obliged, from sheer inability to pay his fare. to walk tho re- mainder of tho journey to Valcncr. Thcrc he arrived, and took his place in the Regiment La Fcrc-doubtlcss so called because it had no iron in it!
 Great was Napoleon $ surprise at the character of the discipline. By tho off cers and men almost everything was practiCed except those exercises which tended to mako them soldiers They were gay, di>siImtcd. frivolous The pay was insufficient tn support them in their career Uf pleasure and vice: hut they were nearly all >ciuns If tho mobility and knew not what it was tn be limited in the means of eradication. Napo- Icons pnvtr'y and ambition alike held him back i>,r a moment from this man ntr of life; but, sJrnng. to say, he prrS- entity thruw himself into the swim, and during tho winter of 1885 St he diSSi- patcd like the rcSt.
 NalCnC" was small hut important city. Tho young military officers were welcomed by ambitious families into their drawing snls. For the nonce, Bonaparte concluded that hC must be- come accomplished that hc must be a social lion and quaff tho buwl of pleas urc with his fellows. Hc had social pass ports from Marl'u'uf's nephew, who was now the young Bishop of Autun.
 But to a nature such Is NaIClcon's pleasure. however t"rrid. could not long suffice. The livut, 1T mt presently turned upon himself i'll aus, '; and n sudden re- form Was th'' immediate result Tho thoughtful hruw and sUllcn manner It. turned. He went back glCumily to his books; recovered his vantage. and hence forth tu ii" rud of his lifv-thuugh many time h., heard tho Sirens sing
 
 pOnCd his ambitions for the dclirlOus dreams and f!,yting hallucinations of a disSipatrd life.
 During his IrrUr aS q student, NaTO- leon general r,ading had b,',n in tho nature uf cNrur>ionS alOn.: the coasts of political I.hIlu~ Thy, The Frvnch man ncr caught his imagination. Ha talked of liberty, of the virtues If the cider Romans. of humanity in q state of ma tur, -aS rev, al,sl l'y T, :.n .Ia,rlu,<.
 Now. III th" spring If I.>G-rrCovcr- in. himself fruu the winters r,.vvl-hr turned fr,m thc ''Con,rLt S,rial,'. ' ground of IV.Iii,Il life, tnthv "liistcirv Phil,r>uphiqur" uf the Ahbc Raynal Here he lu>t himself in tine mysteries (and mist>l of that science which is said to [, ach l'y example,
 The writings of the Ahbc Rayual. from Icing CunglomCratc in which SCvt ral >tr,Ng handS-Mutahly that f Did'rot-had a great lart, Were HOW in tn" ascendant. The Fr, uCh mind caught them. vInIrAc, d them. and Idurcd. They wVrv thought fur the time to bu the be all and the ,,id-all of political philO>O- phy, Behold NaENlC,';i, whoSr mind had already l,ru well Stu.krd with the fLS- ciuatinl, but UuVrutitalrlr stories of He rOdOtuS, piwl,rUS, Straho. PlutarCh, NenOphon. ,t id uIunr g,nuS.-hvhuId him at his candle lighted dval-lnlrd la ble in the barracks of Nalcmcr, rising i'll thought somewhat from the particulars of human story to the general laws of conduct. Be it rem, mltrvd, however, that at that epoch the human mind had not yet Sain,~l the first glimpse of that universal Cuhcrt nee and consistency uf all things which constitutes the bottom principle of the New History. As for the untlrlgcd IaCohini>ln i'll hi T.. that was sufficiently intlamvd with knowledge that five years IrrviuU>ly this same "HiStuiro Phi-u>vFhiquv" had bc,n burned at the Stak,->n To sPcak-in Paris, and it's author driven into exile.
 Meanwhile, i'll August of l1>1, while the members of our Constitutional Con vCntiun were har,l at work in Philadcl- phia building their ship of state, an in surrcCtion against the French govern mcnt broke out i'll Lyons. fifty three miles up the riv,r from Nalvncc; asld the Regiment La F,rr was ordered 10 put down thr T. tvoIt. On the march thithvr NaIul,"n Eouarart" icutcnant of artillery. Lad his first command of soldiers ill thv 1i, Id.
 .IuiIN CLARK RIDPATII.