Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica

p your eyes on me, Bourrienne, and you'll wear blue goggles. You'll have to, you'll be so dazzled. We will set off at once for Italy. The army is

d Bourrienne. "You me

least provide ourselves with fine collections of oil-paintings. Meantime let the army feed on hope and wrap themselves in meditation. It's poor stuff, but there's plenty of it, and it's cheap. On holidays give the poor fellows extra rations, and if hope does not sustain them, cheer them up

s he spoke wit

much; but money is scarce, and you must whistle for your pay. The emigres have gone abroad with all the circulating medium they could lay their hands on, and the Government has much difficulty in maintaining the gold reserve. For my part, I prefer fighting for glory to whistling for money. Fighting is the better profession. You are men. Leave whistling to boys. Follow me into Italy,

!" cried the arm

eon f

chronisms and inaccuracies to them. For ourselves, we must carve it out with our swords and cannon; we must rubricate our pages with our gore, and punctuate our periods with our bayonets. Let it not be said by future ages that we held our responsibilities lightly and were careless of facts, an

ed the army, taking t

ith a smile. "You're a good army, and i

a few days later, on the eve of Napoleon'

n so busy with his preparations that he h

ducated? If you are going to fight the Italians

"We're a bankrupt people. We're going to get some principal to set

"but that, after all, i

g in the attitude of Italy towards the Republic to take offence at, the sooner it goes out of business the better. I'll leave t

and must therefore be broken. Second, the Austrians were too near the Rhine for France's comfort, and must be diverted before they had drunk all the wine of the country, of which the French were very fond; and, third, His Holiness the Pope had taken littl

ral?" asked Augereau,

the

old. The army has no ear-tabs. We'll skirt the A

do, and within a month the first

n possession of food, drink, and clothes to a surfeit. Bona

self a new hat through which to address the people. You have reason to be proud of yourselves. Pat yourselves on your backs with my compliments, but remember one thing. Our tickets are to Milan, and no stop-overs are allowed. Therefore, do not as yet relax your effor

" cried

ns and lifting his horse on to its hind-le

he looks," said L

reau, "you'd think

generalled their leaders, drove them back to the Adda, and himself pushed on t

and that's just where we want them. I had a dream once about the Bridge of Lodi, and it's coming true now or never. We'll take a few of our long divis

what their commander had said they would do, and on the fourteenth day o

him iron, and it builds him up; but in war if you give the troops iron it bowls 'e

o much iron,

n can stand ten or twenty grains of iron

to the family. It would have reminded brother Joseph of old times to see me dashing over that bridge, prodding its planks with my heels until it fairly creaked with pain. It would have made a goo

first," said Augereau; "we haven't a

As I told the troops the other day, it's the biggest theatre in the world. Yo

s, wouldn't they?" said Augereau. "It's not feasible.

re-galleries," said the genera

ll that sacrilege,"

es," said Bonaparte. "We'll

ch, in the face of this accurate version, must fall to the ground. The pictures were sent by him to Paris merely to preserve them, and, as he himself said, a propos of the famous Da Vinci, beneath which horses and men alike were quartered: "I'd have sent

a Salvation Army," said Talleyrand

ade angels of innumerable Austrians, and converte

ld the victorious general was acquiring upon the people, took steps to limit his powers. Bonaparte instantly resigned his

ates, and acquired millions of francs and hundreds of pictures. He chastised all who opposed his sway, and,

d the Emperor at last, finding that

but I don't know whether the Republic will rec

want?" asked the

d to the French people just enclose a small remittance of a few million francs, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Don

foresight. One would almost incline to believe from this particular inci

, Napoleon turned his

ing in a most exasper

e time had come to tak

in h

retly representing, it is said, a newspaper- syndicate service, "they'll put on all the sail t

ard to get at," said Bourrienn

n fighting so hard it's been months since they've had a good tubbing, and a swim wo

the army with overshoes, and have our l

Gene

ugerea

know, G

d if he can't we'll

, with my compliments, that I am coming. The wealth of the Indies couldn't change my mind. They offer me stocks and bonds; well, I believe their stocks and bonds to be as badly watered as their haughty city, and I'll have none of them. I'll bring my stocks with me, and your Doges will sit in them. I'll bring my bonds, and your nobles shall put

General," said one

Napoleon, "for you will have to come

e famous church, five hundred manuscripts, and one apology to the French Republic as the terms of peace. The bronze horses were subsequently returned, but what became of the manuscripts we do not know. They probably would have been returned also-a large portion of them, at least-if postage-s

ghty Doges, whose attitude towards him had always been charact

ming up and down the Grand Canal in their state robes, trying to look dignified, wh