. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. nging title of the most beautiful woman in Cor-sica. According to the standards of a race of low stature,she was of medium height and of graceful carriage, with thesmall hands and feet and ears, the regular teeth, the chestnuthair, the noble forehead, the brilliant eyes, the long, well-formed nose, the fine mouth and strong chin which Napoleonwas to inherit as he developed into manhood. It is certain,however, that he was not hailed as a pretty baby or one worthyof a beautiful mother and a handsome father, and for a longtime the fa
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. nging title of the most beautiful woman in Cor-sica. According to the standards of a race of low stature,she was of medium height and of graceful carriage, with thesmall hands and feet and ears, the regular teeth, the chestnuthair, the noble forehead, the brilliant eyes, the long, well-formed nose, the fine mouth and strong chin which Napoleonwas to inherit as he developed into manhood. It is certain,however, that he was not hailed as a pretty baby or one worthyof a beautiful mother and a handsome father, and for a longtime the family was troubled because his big head was so out ofproportion to his really frail body. Napoleon, as well as his mother, testified that he was a wild,unruly boy, whose inseparable companion was no other thanhis foster brother, his brother of the milk, Ignazio Ilari, theson of a sailor and a nurse. Long years afterward, when hesat down on another island to gaze across the gulf of a life-time, and this island of Corsica swam into view, he said of hischildhood:.
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