you will take flight yet!"

[4] De Ségur, "Histoire et Mémoires," I., 150. (Narrative by
Pontécoulant, member of the committee in the war, June, 1795.) "Boissy
d'Anglas told him that he had seen the evening before a little
Italian, pale, slender, and puny, but singularly audacious in his
views and in the vigor of his expressions. - The next day, Bonaparte
calls on Pontécou1ant, "Attitude rigid through a morbid pride, poor
exterior, long visage, hollow and bronzed. . . . He is just from
the army and talks like one who knows what he is talking about."

[5] Coston, "Biographie des premières années de Napoléon Buonaparte,"
2 vols. (1840), passim. - Yung, " Bonaparte et son Temps," I., 300,
302. (Pièces généalogiques.) - King Joseph, "Mémoires," I., 109, 111.
(On the various branches and distinguished men of the Bonaparte
family.) - Miot de Melito, "Mémoires," II., 30. (Documents on the
Bonaparte family, collected on the spot by the author in 1801.)

[6] "Mémorial," May 6, 1816. - Miot de Melito, II., 30. (On the
Bonapartes of San Miniato): "The last offshoot of this branch was a
canon then still living in this same town of San Miniato, and visited
by Bonaparte in the year IV, when he came to Florence."

[7] "Correspondance de l'Empereur Napoléon I." (Letter of Bonaparte,
Sept.29, 1797, in relation to Italy): "A people at bottom inimical to
the French through the prejudices, character, and customs of
centuries."

[8] Miot de Melito, I., 126, (1796): "Florence, for two centuries and
a half, had lost that antique energy which, in the stormy times of the