—Napoleon Bonaparte at St. Helena, 1815—18211 The art of putting people in their places is foremost in the science of government, but the art of finding a place for the malcontent is certainly the most difficult. [Colonies in] far-off places with landscapes equal to their dreams and desires … [are] one good solution for this social difficulty. —Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, December 26, 17972 THOMAS JEFFERSON was not the only man contemplating the future of the world from a book-strewn study in Paris in the 1780s. In his room at the Ecole Militaire at the Champ de Mars (now overshadowed by the Eiffel Tower) on the Left Bank of the Seine, about a mile distant as the corneille flies, a brilliant Corsican gentleman-cadet was also contemplating the destinies of nations. Born into a struggling gentry family from Ajaccio, Corsica, on August 15, 1769, Nabolione was the second child of Carlo Maria di Buonaparte, a lawyer and Corsican patriot, and Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte.
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