Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — The Poverty of the Bonapartes. [ARTICLE]

The Poverty of the Bonapartes.

Century for November Some time before the death of his father, Gen. Marbeuf had married, and the pecuniary supplies to his boy friend seem after that event tc have stopped. M. de Bonaparte was left with four infant children; the youngest, Jerome, but three months old. Their great uncle, Lucien the archdeacon, was kind, and Joseph, abandoning all his ambitions, returned to be, if possible, the support of the family. Napoleon’s poverty .was therefore no longer relative or imaginary, but real and hard. Drawing more closely than ever within himself, he became a still more ardent reader and student, devoting himself with an industry akin to passion to the works of Rousseau, the poison of whose political doctrines instilled itself with fiery and grateful stings into the thin, cold blood of the unhappy cadet.