The French Occupy Corsica -- Paoli Deceived -- Treaty between France and Genoa -- English Intervention Vain -- Paoli in England -- British Problems -- Introduction of the French Administrative System -- Paoli's Policy -- The Coming Man -- Origin of the Bonapartes -- The Corsican Branch -- Their Nobility -- Carlo Maria di Buonaparte -- Maria Letizia Ramolino -- Their Marriage and Naturalization as French Subjects -- Their Fortunes -- Their Children. [Sidenote: 1764-72.] The preliminary occupation of Corsica by the French was ostensibly formal. The process was continued, however, until the formality became a reality, until the fortifications of the seaport towns ceded by Genoa were filled with troops. Then, for the first time, the text of the convention between the two powers was communicated to Paoli. Choiseul explained through his agent that by its first section the King guaranteed the safety and liberty of the Corsican nation. But, no doubt, he forgot to explain the double dealing in the second section. Thereby in the Italian form the Corsicans were in return to take "all right and proper measures dictated by their sense of justice and natural moderation to secure the glory and interest of the republic of Genoa," while in the French form they were "to yield to the Genoese all 'they' thought necessary to the glory and interests of their republic." Who were the "they"?--the Corsicans or the Genoese? Paoli's eye was fixed on the acknowledgment of Corsican independence; he was hoodwinked completely as to the treachery in this second section, the meaning of which, according to diplomatic usage, was settled by the interpretation which the language employed for one form put upon that in which the other was written. Combining the two translations, Italian and French, of the second section, and interpreting one by the other, the Genoese were still the arbiters of Corsican conduct and the promise of liberty contained in the first section was worthless.