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MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.CHAPTER 11769-1783. Authentic date of Bonaparte's birth--His family ruined by the Jesuits-… mais…

MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.CHAPTER 11769-1783. 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.NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, on the 15th of August1769; the original orthography of his name was Buonaparte, but hesuppressed the u during his first campaign in Italy. His motives for sodoing were merely to render the spelling conformable with thepronunciation, and to abridge his signature. He signed Buonaparte evenafter the famous 13th Vendemiaire.It has been affirmed that he was born in 1768, and that he representedhimself to be a year younger than he really was. This is untrue. Healways told me the 9th of August was his birthday, and, as I was born onthe 9th of July 1769, our proximity of age served to strengthen our unionand friendship when we were both at the Military College of Brienne.The false and absurd charge of Bonaparte having misrepresented his age,is decidedly refuted by a note in the register of M. Berton, sub-principal of the College of Brienne, in which it is stated thatM. Napoleon de Buonaparte, écuyer, born in the city of Ajaccio, inCorsica, on the 15th of August 1769, left the Royal Military College ofBrienne on the 17th October 1784.The stories about his low extraction are alike devoid of foundation. Hisfamily was poor, and he was educated at the public expense, an advantageof which many honourable families availed themselves. A memorialaddressed by his father, Charles Buonaparte, to the Minister of Warstates that his fortune had been reduced by the failure of someenterprise in which he had engaged, and by the injustice of the Jesuits,by whom he had been deprived of an inheritance. The object of thismemorial was to solicit a sub-lieutenant's commission for Napoleon, whowas then fourteen years of age, and to get Lucien entered a pupil of theMilitary College. The Minister wrote on the back of the memorial, Givethe usual answer, if there be a vacancy; and on the margin are thesewords--This gentleman has been informed that his request is inadmissibleas long as his second son remains at the school of Brienne. Two brotherscannot be placed at the same time in the military schools. WhenNapoleon was fifteen he was sent to Paris until he should attain therequisite age for entering the army. Lucien was not received into theCollege of Brienne, at least not until his brother had quitted theMilitary School of Paris.Bonaparte was undoubtedly a man of good family. I have seen an authenticaccount of his genealogy, which he obtained from Tuscany. A great dealhas been said about the civil dissensions which forced his family to quitItaly and take refuge in Corsica. On this subject I shall say nothing.Many and various accounts have been given of Bonaparte's youth. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, SAP Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940012757920

MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.CHAPTER 11769-1783. Authentic date of Bonaparte's birth--His family ruined by the Jesuits-… mais…

MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.CHAPTER 11769-1783. 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.NAPOLEON BONAPARTE was born at Ajaccio, in Corsica, on the 15th of August1769; the original orthography of his name was Buonaparte, but hesuppressed the u during his first campaign in Italy. His motives for sodoing were merely to render the spelling conformable with thepronunciation, and to abridge his signature. He signed Buonaparte evenafter the famous 13th Vendemiaire.It has been affirmed that he was born in 1768, and that he representedhimself to be a year younger than he really was. This is untrue. Healways told me the 9th of August was his birthday, and, as I was born onthe 9th of July 1769, our proximity of age served to strengthen our unionand friendship when we were both at the Military College of Brienne.The false and absurd charge of Bonaparte having misrepresented his age,is decidedly refuted by a note in the register of M. Berton, sub-principal of the College of Brienne, in which it is stated thatM. Napoleon de Buonaparte, écuyer, born in the city of Ajaccio, inCorsica, on the 15th of August 1769, left the Royal Military College ofBrienne on the 17th October 1784.The stories about his low extraction are alike devoid of foundation. Hisfamily was poor, and he was educated at the public expense, an advantageof which many honourable families availed themselves. A memorialaddressed by his father, Charles Buonaparte, to the Minister of Warstates that his fortune had been reduced by the failure of someenterprise in which he had engaged, and by the injustice of the Jesuits,by whom he had been deprived of an inheritance. The object of thismemorial was to solicit a sub-lieutenant's commission for Napoleon, whowas then fourteen years of age, and to get Lucien entered a pupil of theMilitary College. The Minister wrote on the back of the memorial, Givethe usual answer, if there be a vacancy; and on the margin are thesewords--This gentleman has been informed that his request is inadmissibleas long as his second son remains at the school of Brienne. Two brotherscannot be placed at the same time in the military schools. WhenNapoleon was fifteen he was sent to Paris until he should attain therequisite age for entering the army. Lucien was not received into theCollege of Brienne, at least not until his brother had quitted theMilitary School of Paris.Bonaparte was undoubtedly a man of good family. I have seen an authenticaccount of his genealogy, which he obtained from Tuscany. A great dealhas been said about the civil dissensions which forced his family to quitItaly and take refuge in Corsica. On this subject I shall say nothing.Many and various accounts have been given of Bonaparte's youth. Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, SAP Digital >16<

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