A cannon-ball may take off your head, as it did that of Marshal Berwick, and then what becomes of France?
You have no children, and your brothers--" "Oh!" cried Bonaparte, "from that point of view you are right enough; but, if you don't believe in Providence, I do.

I believe that nothing happens by chance.

I believe that when, on the 15th of August, 1769 (one year, day for day, after Louis XV.

issued the decree reuniting Corsica to France), a child was born in Ajaccio, destined to bring about the 13th Vendemiaire and the 18th Brumaire, and that Providence had great designs, mighty projects, in view for that child.

I am that child.