. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. th itwent his assurance of interest and good will in all the cir-cumstances of the young mans life. Generous, forbearing,even tender remembrance of all who had been associatedwith him in his early years, was one of Napoleons markedcharacteristics. His new position at Valence was not brilliant. He hadan annual income of two hundred and twenty-four dollars,and there was much hard work. It was independence, how-ever, and life opened gayly to the young officer. He mademany acquaintances, and for the first time saw somethingof society and women. Madame Colombier, wh
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. th itwent his assurance of interest and good will in all the cir-cumstances of the young mans life. Generous, forbearing,even tender remembrance of all who had been associatedwith him in his early years, was one of Napoleons markedcharacteristics. His new position at Valence was not brilliant. He hadan annual income of two hundred and twenty-four dollars,and there was much hard work. It was independence, how-ever, and life opened gayly to the young officer. He mademany acquaintances, and for the first time saw somethingof society and women. Madame Colombier, whose salonwas the leading one of the town, received him, introducedhim to powerful friends, and, indeed, prophesied a greatfuture for him. The sixteen-year-old officer, in spite of his shabby clothesand big boots, became a favorite. He talked brilliantlyand freely, began to find that he could please, and, for thefirst time, made love a little—to Mademoiselle Colombier—a frolicking boy-and-girl love, the object of whose stolen. 30 NAPOLEON IN PARIS 31 rendezvous was to eat cherries together. MademoiselleMion-Desplaces, a pretty Corsican girl in Valence, also re-ceived some attention from him. Encouraged by his goodbeginning, and ambitious for future success, he even beganto take dancing lessons. Had there been no one but himself to think of, everythingwould have gone easily, but the care of his family was uponhim. His father had died a few months before, February,1785, and left his affairs in a sad tangle. Joseph, nownearly eighteen years of age, who had gone to Autun in1779 with Napoleon, had remained there until 1785. Theintention was to make him a priest; suddenly he declaredthat he would not be anything but a soldier. It was toundo all that had been done for him; but his father madean effort to get him into a military school. Before the ar-rangements were complete Charles Bonaparte died, andJoseph was obliged to return to Corsica, where he was pow-erless to do anything fo
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