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The Emperor remembered perfectly the conversation at Nuits, but meaningly said that his friend must have been asleep and dreaming. Several traditions which throw some light on Buonaparte's attitude toward religion date from this last residence in Auxonne.
Necker had fled, the French Revolution was rushing on with ever-increasing speed, and the young adventurer, despairing of success as a writer, seized the proffered opening to become a man of action. In a letter dated January twelfth, 1789, and written at Auxonne to his mother, the young officer gives a dreary account of himself.
I shall have hereafter to relate what passed at an interview which I had with the General, who came to England at the time of the peace, to endeavour to reclaim the picture. About this time a fire broke out at Auxonne, in France, in which town twenty-one English prisoners of war were confined, who exerted themselves vigorously to extinguish the flames.
But it was ended before he arrived; on May first he returned to Auxonne. Engraved by Huot. Charles Bonaparte, Father of the Emperor Napoleon, 1785. Four days later the Estates met at Versailles. What was passing in the mind of the restless, bitter, disappointed Corsican is again plainly revealed. A famous letter to Paoli, to which reference has already been made, is dated June twelfth.
It was quite a burden for this young man of twenty to assume. But Napoleon undertook it cheerfully, he was glad to be able to do anything that should lighten his mother's burdens. The brothers did not have a particularly pleasant home at Auxonne. They lived in a bare room in the regimental barracks, "Number 16," up one flight of stairs. It was wretchedly furnished.
With these four months his total service was five years and nine months; but he had been absent, with or without leave, something more than half the time! His old friends in Auxonne were few in number, if indeed there were any at all.
It was a season of disillusionment in more senses than one; for there he saw for himself the seamy side of Parisian life, and drifted for a brief space about the giddy vortex of the Palais Royal. What a contrast to the limpid life of Corsica was that turbid frothy existence already swirling towards its mighty plunge! After a furlough of twenty-one months he rejoined his regiment, now at Auxonne.
A plan for an elective council in Corsica to replace that of the nobles, and for a local militia, having been matured, he was a cautious and practical experimenter from the moment he left Auxonne. Thus far he had put into practice none of his fine thoughts, nor the lessons learned in books.
Literary Work The Lyons Prize Essay on Happiness Thwarted Ambition The Corsican Patriots The Brothers Napoleon and Louis Studies in Politics Reorganization of the Army The Change in Public Opinion A New Leave of Absence Napoleon Again at Auxonne Napoleon as a Teacher Further Literary Efforts The Sentimental Journey His Attitude Toward Religion.
It was likewise true, however, that his chance for a smooth passage was better in August than in October, and this evident fact, though probably irrelevant, might move the authorities. Their answer was favorable, and on September sixteenth he left Auxonne. In the interval occurred a mutiny in the regiment.
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