préfectorale ; cf. p. ix

124.— 17. non Mulement . . . cadre (' he is not only oui of tlie line, but ont of the frame' Le.) 'lie is not only extraordinary, but aiso wbolly original.'

125. — 22. Cornélie, Cornelia, the excellent mother of the Gracchi, of Roman famé.

24. rinvaiion française. The Corsicans under General Paoli had made themselves independent of their masters, the Genoese, 1755. The Genoese then surrendered their claims to the French, who captured Corsica in 1768-69. Napoléon was bom 1769, a few months after his familj had sworn French allegiance.