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Title: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sloane, William Milligan, 1850-1928
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: London, Times Book Club
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n being a bell to arouse the guard who slept in thehall. Larger rooms were provided for his toilet; and hestudied where he recited, in still another suite. Therewas a common refectory in w^hich four simple meals a daywere served: for breakfast and luncheon, bread and water,with fruit either fresh or stewed; for dinner, soup withthe soup-meat, a side-dish and dessert; for supper, a jointwith salad or dessert. With the last two was served amild mixture of wine and water, known in school slang as*abundance. The outfit of clothing comprised under-wear for two changes a week, a uniform consisting of ablue cloth coat, faced and trimmed with red, a waistcoatof the same with white revers, and serge breeches eitherblue or black. The overcoat was of the same materialas the uniform, with the same trimming but with whitelining. The studies comprised Latin, mathematics, theFrench language and literature, English, German,geography, drawing, fencing, music, vocal as well asinstrumental, and dancing.
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In the Museum ot Versailles MARIE-LAETITIA RAMOLINO BONAPARTE MADAME MERE — MOTHER OF NAPOLEON I
AET. 10-15) NAPOLEONS SCHOOL-DAYS 51 Perhaps the severe regimen of living could have been mitigated and brightened by a course of study nominally and ostensibly so rich and full; but in the list of masters, lay and clerical, there is not a name of eminence. Neither Napoleon nor his contemporary pupils recalled in later years any portion of their work as stimulating, nor any instructor as having excelled inability. The boys seem to have disliked heartily both their studies and their masters. Young Buonaparte had likewise a distaste for society and was thrown upon his own unaided resources to satisfy his eager mind. UndiscipHned in spirit, he was impatient of self-disciplineand worked spasmodically in such subjects as he liked, disdaining the severe training of his mind, even by him-self. He did learn to spell the foreign tongue of hisadopted country, but his handwriting, never good, wasbad or worselifeofnapoleonb01sloa

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