Show NAPOLEON 1 I IN M thiers thiera in his hia history of the consulate and empire re 1 cites some borne very strange and previously unknown particulars respecting the early life I 1 an and d penury of napoleon bona bonaparte arte ft it appears app ears that after he ead had obtained b a 11 subalterns subal terns commission in the frenell french service by 1 hie 1 a skill and daring at toulon bonaparte lived some time in paris pans in obscure hodg alga and in such euch extreme poverty that he was often without the means of paying ten cents for his bis dinner and frequently went without anything at all he was under the necessity of borrowing sums burns and even worn out clot clothes cloth hesp ss from his acquaintances he and his brother louis afterwards king of holland had at one time only a coat between them so that the brothers could only go out oat alternately time and time about at this crisis the chi chief f benefactor of the future emperor and conqueror 11 at whose mighty name the grew pale was the actor talma who often gave him food and money napoleons face afterward so famed for its classical mould was during that period of starvation harsh and angular in its linea idea ments with its projecting cheek bones his meagre tare fare brought on an unpleasant and unsightly and disease of at a type sao BO virulent and malignant that it took yf al all the ski alciel 11 and assiduity of his accomplished physician 1 an Corvi sart to expel it after a duration 0 of lc more than ten years the squal lid beggar then the splendid emperor afterwards the threadbare habali ments and imperial mantle the hovel and the palace the meager fare and the gorgeous bai banquet biquet the friem friendship delip of a poor actor the homage and terror of the world an exile and a prisoner prisoner ri such are the ups and downs of ahr this a changeful life such are the lights and I 1 S shadows of the great and mighty |