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Show the future Emperor spent his youth. en-lightened en-lightened by an intelligent and lovely mother. The "Casa Napoleon" Is one of the or I should say the principal building build-ing In AJacclo. It Is a solid three-story building;, with gray stucco waits and a number of large windows. Situated in the old part of the town, one would sacresly find it were It not for the boys who tender ten-der their services to guide the. stranger to the place. -. Although plundered In 1i3J by the partisans par-tisans of Poail, the heroic Corslcan fighter figh-ter for liberty, the house still contalrs a few reminiscences of the great warrior. Besides a number of ordinary rooms, each containing some furniture, one finds the bedroom where Napoleon was born, as well as Napoleon's sleeping and study-room, study-room, with his bed and table; his father's study, still beautifully furnished, and the drawing-room in which are his mother's 1 piano snd her sedan-chair. From "Cor-' "Cor-' slca and the Coralcans." by Theo de Veer, in Four-Track. News for May. NAPOLEON'S BIRTHPLACE. Historically. AJacclo,. Corsica, is of the utmost Importance, for here It was that, on the 15th of August. 17. Napoleon Bonaparte was born, and here it was that |