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A further request from Joseph Buonaparte for the return of the slighted manuscript brought the answer that he, Paoli, had no time to search his papers. After this, how could hero-worship subsist? The four months spent by Buonaparte at Auxonne were, indeed, a time of disappointment and hardship.
It is to him, it is to his knowledge of rock inscriptions, that I owe the only thing that has raised my life in interest above the miserable little lives dragged out by my companions at Auxonne, and elsewhere. "This being understood, here are the facts:" It was in the Arabian Office at Wargla, when I was a lieutenant, that I first heard the name, Morhange.
Jean Pierre Camus came of an illustrious, and much respected family of Auxonne in Burgundy, in which province it possessed the seigneuries of Saint Bonnet and Pont-carre. He was born in Paris, November 3rd, 1584.
The brothers were able, therefore, to take up their lives just where they had made the break at Auxonne: Louis pursuing the studies necessary for entrance to the corps of officers, Napoleon teaching him, and frequenting the political club; both destitute and probably suffering, for the officer's pay was soon far in arrears.
Though he had overrun his leave for three and a half months, there was not only no severe punishment in store for Napoleon on his arrival at Auxonne, but there was considerate regard, and, later, promotion. Officers with military training and loyal to the Assembly were becoming scarce.
Napoleon's Studies Continued at Auxonne Another Illness and a Furlough His Scheme of Corsican Liberation His Appearance at Twenty His Attainments and Character His Shifty Conduct The Homeward Journey New Parties in Corsica Salicetti and the Nationalists Napoleon Becomes a Political Agitator and Leader of the Radicals The National Assembly Incorporates Corsica with France and Grants Amnesty to Paoli Momentary Joy of the Corsican Patriots The French Assembly Ridicules Genoa's Protest Napoleon's Plan for Corsican Administration.
After a brief sojourn at Lyons, Napoleon was summoned with his regiment to quell certain popular tumults at Auxonne. There he distinguished himself as a handler of mobs, and learned a few things that were of inestimable advantage to him later. Speaking of it in after-years, he observed: "It is my opinion, my dear Emperor Joseph, that grape-shot is the only proper medicine for a mob.
Joseph was persuaded to add his solicitations for the desired papers to those of his brother, but he too received a flat refusal. Short as was Buonaparte's residence at Auxonne, he availed himself to the utmost of the slackness of discipline in order to gratify his curiosity as to the state of the country. He paid frequent visits to Marmont in Dijon, and he made what he called at St.
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.
In fact, through all these voracious studies there appear signs of his determination to write a history of Corsica; and, while inspiriting his kinsmen by recalling the glorious past, he sought to weaken the French monarchy by inditing a "Dissertation sur l'Autorité Royale." His first sketch of this work runs as follows: "23 October, 1788. Auxonne.
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