........ 419

XXXIII. The Preliminaries of Peace--Leoben.................... 430

XXXIV. The Fall of Venice.................................... 444

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Napoleon Bonaparte in 1785, aged sixteen. _Frontispiece_

Marie-Laetitia Ramolino Bonaparte "Madame Mere"--Mother of
Napoleon I..................................................... 50

Charles Bonaparte, Father of the Emperor Napoleon, 1785.......... 96

Bonaparte, General in Chief of the Army of Italy................ 176

Josephine....................................................... 226

Marie-Josephine-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, called Josephine,
Empress of the French......................................... 276

Bonaparte....................................................... 326

Map of Northern Italy, illustrating the Campaigns of 1796 and
1797.......................................................... 354

Josephine, Empress of the French................................ 374

Map illustrating the Campaign preceding the Treaty of
Campo-Formio, 1797............................................ 414

SI QUID NOVISTI RECTIUS ISTIS,
CANDIDUS IMPERTI: SI NON, HIS UTERE MECUM

_Horace_

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

CHAPTER I.

Introduction.

The Revolutionary Epoch in Europe -- Its Dominant
Personage -- The State System of Europe -- The Power of
Great Britain -- Feebleness of Democracy -- The Expectant
Attitude of the Continent -- Survival of Antiquated
Institutions -- The American Revolution -- Philosophical
Sophistries -- Rousseau -- His Fallacies -- Corsica as a
Center of Interest -- Its Geography -- Its Rulers -- The
People -- Sampiero -- Revolutions -- Spanish Alliance --
King Theodore -- French Intervention -- Supremacy of Genoa
-- Paoli -- His Success as a Liberator -- His Plan for
Alliance with France -- The Policy of Choiseul -- Paoli's
Reputation -- Napoleon's Account of Corsica and of Paoli --
Rousseau and Corsica.

Napoleon Bonaparte was the representative man of the epoch which
ushered in the nineteenth century. Though an aristocrat by descent, he
was in life, in training, and in quality neither that nor a plebeian;
he was the typical plain man of his time, exhibiting the common sense