The features, which developed later in life, were pinched, and the close attention the child paid to what went on about him still further contracted them.

Philippe flattered his mother's vanity, but Joseph won no compliments.

Philippe sparkled with the clever sayings and lively answers that lead parents to believe their boys will turn out remarkable men; Joseph was taciturn, and a dreamer.

The mother hoped great things of Philippe, and expected nothing of Joseph.
Joseph's predilection for art was developed by a very commonplace incident.

During the Easter holidays of 1812, as he was coming home from a walk in the Tuileries with his brother and Madame Descoings, he saw a pupil drawing a caricature of some professor on the wall of the Institute, and stopped short with admiration at the charcoal sketch, which was full of satire.