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He had returned to France before Buonaparte arrived, as a member of the newly elected legislature, but his evil influence survived his departure, and his lieutenants were ubiquitous and active. Paoli had been rendered helpless, and was sunk in despair.
Johnson to General Paoli. I had greatly wished that two men, for whom I had the highest esteem, should meet. They met with a manly ease, mutually conscious of their own abilities, and of the abilities of each other. The General spoke Italian, and Dr.
Authentic date of Bonaparte's birth His family ruined by the Jesuits His taste for military amusements Sham siege at the College of Brienne The porter's wife and Napoleon My intimacy with Bonaparte at college His love for the mathematics, and his dislike of Latin He defends Paoli and blames his father He is ridiculed by his comrades Ignorance of the monks Distribution of prizes at Brienne Madame de Montesson and the Duke of Orleans Report of M. Keralio on Bonaparte He leaves Brienne.
General Paoli, who had lived in England ever since the termination of that civil war in which Charles Buonaparte served under his banner, was cheered, when the great French Revolution first broke out, with the hope that liberty was about to be restored to Corsica.
For what could trouble the old man here in San Ambrogio on this, the greatest day of the Community? For to-day Father Ramoni had returned to Rome. Even as Father Tomasso passed the fountain a group of Fathers and novices were gathering around one of the younger priests, who still wore his fereoula and wide-brimmed hat, just as he had entered from Via Paoli.
The "enthusiasm" of Napoleon was a cold, unsentimental determination to push their fortunes, which, with opposite principles, would have been honorable enough. In later years Lucien said that he had made two copies of the history. It was probably one of these which has been preserved. Whether or not Paoli read the book does not appear.
"Paoli," observed Bonaparte, "was a great man; he loved his country; and I will never forgive my father, who was his adjutant, for having concurred in the union of Corsica with France. He ought to have followed Paoli's fortune, and have fallen with him."
"I remember a line in Dryden: "'And every poet is the monarch's friend, "it ought to be reversed." "Nay," said Johnson, "there are finer lines in Dryden on this subject: "'For colleges on bounteous kings depend, And never rebel was to arts a friend." General Paoli observed that "successful rebels might be." "Happy rebellions," interjected Martinelli. "We have no such phrase," cried Goldsmith.
French Soldier and Corsican Patriot Paoli's Hesitancy His Return to Corsica Cross-Purposes in France A New Furlough Money Transactions of Napoleon and Joseph Open Hostilities Against France Address to the French Assembly The Bastia Uprising Reorganization of Corsican Administration Meeting of Napoleon and Paoli Corsican Politics Studies in Society.
For the word Republic, which fired his imagination, was an offence to Paoli and to most of the islanders; and the phrase "Republic one and indivisible," ever on the lips of the French, seemed to promise that the island must become a petty replica of France France that was now dominated by the authors of the vile September massacres.
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