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CONTENTS

CHAPTER Page

I. Introduction............................................ 1

II. The Bonapartes in Corsica.............................. 20

III. Napoleon's Birth and Childhood......................... 35

IV. Napoleon's School-days................................. 48

V. In Paris and Valence................................... 60

VI. Private Study and Garrison Life........................ 73

VII. Further Attempts at Authorship......................... 83

VIII. The Revolution in France.............................. 100

IX. Buonaparte and Revolution in Corsica.................. 111

X. First Lessons in Revolution........................... 123

XI. Traits of Character................................... 135

XII. The Revolution in the Rhone Valley.................... 148

XIII. Buonaparte the Corsican Jacobin....................... 160

XIV. Buonaparte the French Jacobin......................... 180

XV. A Jacobin Hegira...................................... 199

XVI. "The Supper of Beaucaire"............................. 212

XVII. Toulon................................................ 222

XVIII. A Jacobin General..................................... 236

XIX. Vicissitudes in War and Diplomacy..................... 247

XX. The End of Apprenticeship............................. 260

XXI. The Antechamber To Success............................ 272

XXII. Bonaparte the General of the Convention............... 287

XXIII. The Day of the Paris Sections......................... 302

XXIV. A Marriage of Inclination and Interest................ 313

XXV. Europe and the Directory.............................. 324

XXVI. Bonaparte on a Great Stage............................ 339

XXVII. The Conquest of Piedmont and the Milanese............. 352

XXVIII. An Insubordinate Conqueror and Diplomatist............ 363

XXIX. Bassano and Arcola.................................... 378

XXX. Bonaparte's Imperious Spirit.......................... 393

XXXI. Rivoli and the Capitulation of Mantua................. 406

XXXII. Humiliation of the Papacy and of Venice.......