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Title: The boy life of Napoleon, afterwards emperor of the French
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Foa, Eugénie, d. 1853
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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en he shrugged his shoulders, and pinched hisbrothers ear. Well, kings and emperors must eat and work,he said, the same as lieutenants and schoolboys.Come, then, King Louis; some broth, and then toyour duty. This was Napoleon at twenty, — a poverty-pinched,self-sacrificing, hard-working boy; a man before histime ; knowing very little of fun and comfort, and verymuch of toil and trouble. He was an illy-proportloncd 3oung man, not 3ethaving outgrown the spindling appearance of hisboyhood; but even then he possessed certain of theremarkable features familiar to every boy and girl whohas studied the portraits of Napoleon the emperor.His head was large and finely shaped, with a wideforehead, large mouth, and straight nose, a projectingchin, and large, steel-blue eyes, that were full of fireand power. His face was sallow, his hair brown andstringy, his cheeks lean from not too much o\^er-feeding. His body and legs were thin and small ; buthis chest was broad, and his neck short and thick.
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Lieutenant Napoleon Bonaparte, Aged 22. (From the portrait by Jean Baptiste Grenze, in the I\(use2iin at Versailles.) DARK DAYS. 20I His step was firm and steady, with nothing of the wobbly gait we often see in people who are notwell-proportioned. His character was undoubtedly thatof a young man who had the desire to get aheadfaster than his opportunities would permit. Solitudehad made him uncommunicative and secretive ; anxietyand privation had made him self-helpful and self-re-liant ; lack of sympathy had made him calculating;but doing for others had made him kind-hearted andgenerous. His reading and study had made himambitious ; his knowledofe that when he knew a thino-he really knew it, made him masterful and desirous ofleadership. He had few of the vices, and sowed buta small crop of what is called the wild oats ofyouth; he abhorred debt, and scarcely ever owed apenny, even when in sorest straits; and, while not abrio-ht nor a oreat scholar, what he had learned hewas able to stor

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