Volume 5 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link book Volume 5 (of 6) 42/78 Courage, you will take flight yet!"] [Footnote 1104: De Segur, "Histoire et Memoires," I., 150. (Narrative by Pontecoulant, member of the committee in the war, June, 1795.) "Boissy d'Anglas told him that he had seen the evening before a little Italian, pale, slender, and puny, but singularly audacious in his views and in the vigor of his expressions .-- The next day, Bonaparte calls on Pontecou1ant, Attitude rigid through a morbid pride, poor exterior, long visage, hollow and bronzed.... He is just from the army and talks like one who knows what he is talking about."] [Footnote 1105: Coston, "Biographie des premieres annees de Napoleon Buonaparte," 2 vols. (1840), passim .-- Yung, "Bonaparte et son Temps," I., 300, 302. (Pieces genealogiques.)--King Joseph, "Memoires," I., 109, 111. |