V. In Paris and Valence................................... 60 VI. Private Study and Garrison Life........................ 73 VII. Further Attempts at Authorship......................... 83 VIII. The Revolution in France.............................. 100 IX. Buonaparte and Revolution in Corsica.................. 111 X. First Lessons in Revolution........................... 123 XI. Traits of Character................................... 135 XII. The Revolution in the Rhone Valley.................... 148 XIII. Buonaparte the Corsican Jacobin....................... 160 XIV. Buonaparte the French Jacobin......................... 180 XV. A Jacobin Hegira...................................... 199 XVI. "The Supper of Beaucaire"............................. 212 XVII. Toulon................................................ 222 XVIII. A Jacobin General..................................... 236 XIX. Vicissitudes in War and Diplomacy..................... 247 XX. The End of Apprenticeship............................. 260 XXI. The Antechamber To Success............................ 272 XXII. Bonaparte the General of the Convention............... 287 XXIII. The Day of the Paris Sections......................... 302 XXIV. A Marriage of Inclination and Interest................ 313 XXV. Europe and the Directory.............................. 324 XXVI. Bonaparte on a Great Stage............................ 339 XXVII. The Conquest of Piedmont and the Milanese............. 352 XXVIII. An Insubordinate Conqueror and Diplomatist............ 363 XXIX. Bassano and Arcola.................................... 378 XXX. Bonaparte's Imperious Spirit.......................... 393 XXXI. Rivoli and the Capitulation of Mantua................. 406 XXXII. Humiliation of the Papacy and of Venice............... 419 XXXIII. The Preliminaries of Peace--Leoben.................... 430 XXXIV. The Fall of Venice.................................... 444 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Napoleon Bonaparte in 1785, aged sixteen. _Frontispiece_ Marie-Lætitia Ramolino Bonaparte "Madame Mère"--Mother of Napoleon I..................................................... 50 Charles Bonaparte, Father of the Emperor Napoleon, 1785.......... 96 Bonaparte, General in Chief of the Army of Italy................ 176 Josephine....................................................... 226 Marie-Josephine-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, called Josephine, Empress of the French......................................... 276 Bonaparte....................................................... 326 Map of Northern Italy, illustrating the Campaigns of 1796 and 1797.......................................................... 354