Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — Napoleon’s Birthplace. [ARTICLE]

Napoleon’s Birthplace.

Historically. Ajaccio. Corsica, is of the utmost importance, for here it was that, on the fifteenth of August, 17t»E>, Napoleon Bonaparte was born, and here”. it was that the future emperor spent bis youth, enlightened by an intelligent and lovely mother. The "Casa Napoleon” Is one of the—or I should say—the principal building in Ajaccio. It Is 1 solid three-story building, with gray stucco walls and a number of large windows. Situated in the old part of the town, one would scarcely find it were it not for the boys who tender their services to guide the stranger to the place. Although plundered in 1793 by the partisans of Paoli, the heroic Corsican fighter for liberty, the house still contains 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 wefl as Napoleon’s sleeping and study roonLjvftli his bed and table; his father’s study, still beaurtf-J fully furnished, and the drawing-room in which are his mother’s piano and her sedan chair.—-Four-Track News.