. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. EMPEROE OF ELBA 407 that should be a model for his subjects. He planted a groveof mulberry trees and he introduced the potato into the is-land. But a tablet on a waU in one of the hamlets thus re-cords his overthrow as a ploughman: Napoleon, while pass-ing by, took the plough from a peasant, but the oxen rebelledagainst the hands that had guided Europe and broke awayfrom the furrow. Since the Emperor was resolved to be a farmer, San Mar-tino is but a farmhouse of twelve modest sized rooms andeven less palatial than the Mulini. Its
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. EMPEROE OF ELBA 407 that should be a model for his subjects. He planted a groveof mulberry trees and he introduced the potato into the is-land. But a tablet on a waU in one of the hamlets thus re-cords his overthrow as a ploughman: Napoleon, while pass-ing by, took the plough from a peasant, but the oxen rebelledagainst the hands that had guided Europe and broke awayfrom the furrow. Since the Emperor was resolved to be a farmer, San Mar-tino is but a farmhouse of twelve modest sized rooms andeven less palatial than the Mulini. Its two-story front con-tracts into a one-story cottage in the rear, where the risinghiU cuts off the lower floor, and whither the driveway leads. The entrance, therefore, is to the upper floor and into theHall of the Pyramids. A sunken fountain is in the centreof this room, the walls of which are covered with imitationcolumns and carvings that some simple artist of the miniatureempire crudely designed to recall the campaign on the one of the columns the
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