原文 (英語)

This etext was produced from the 1902 Harper and Brothers edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk MR. BONAPARTE OF CORSICA by John Kendrick Bangs CHAPTER I: CORSICA TO BRIENNE 1769-1779 Napoleon's father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was the second. That the infant Napoleon should have followed rather than led the processio