Identifier: boylifeofnapoleo00foae (find matches)
Title: The boy life of Napoleon, afterwards emperor of the French
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Foa, Eugénie, d. 1853
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: Boston, Lothrop Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ce from France, returned to joinhis regiment at Auxonne, taking- with him his youngbrother, Louis, whom he had agreed to support andeducate. It was quite a burden for this young man of twentyto assume. But Napoleon undertook it cheerfully ; hewas glad to be able to do anything that should lightenhis mothers burdens. The brothers did not have a particularly pleasanthome at Auxonne. They lived in a bare room in theregimental barracks, Number i6, up one flight ofstairs. It was wretchedly furnished. It contained anuncurtained bed, a table, two chairs, and an old woodenbox, which the boys used, both as bureau and book-case. Louis slept on a little cot-bed near his brother;and how they lived on sixty cents a day — payingout of that for food, lodeina:, clothes, and books — isone of the mysteries. In fact, they nearly starved themselves. Napoleonmade the broth; brushed and mended their clothes;sometimes had only dry bread for a meal; and, asNapoleon said later, bolted the door on his pov-
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/ dreamed that I was a king, said Louis. DARK DAYS. 197 erty. That is to say, they went nowhere, and sawno one. It was hard on the young heutenant ; It was per-haps even harder on the httle brother. One morning-, after Napoleon had dressed himselfand was preparing their poor breakfast, he knockedon the floor with his cane to arouse his brother andcall him to breakfast and studies. Little Louis awoke so slowly that Napoleon wasobliged to arouse him a second time. Come, come, my Louis, he cried ; what is thematter this morning ? It seems to me that you arevery lazy. Oh, brother! answered the half-awaked child, Iwas havinof such a beautiful dream ! And what did you dream? asked Napoleon. The little Louis sat upright on the edge of hiscot. I dreamed that I was a king, he replied. A king ! Well, well ! exclaimed his brother,lauehine. Then he glanced around at the bare andpoverty-stricken room. And wdiat, then, your Maj-esty, was I, your brother, — an emperor perhaps? 198 THE BOY LIFE OF

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