(On the various branches and distinguished men of the Bonaparte family.)--Miot de Melito, "Memoires," II., 30.

(Documents on the Bonaparte family, collected on the spot by the author in 1801.)] [Footnote 1106: "Memorial," May 6, 1816 .-- Miot de Melito, II., 30.

(On the Bonapartes of San Miniato): "The last offshoot of this branch was a canon then still living in this same town of San Miniato, and visited by Bonaparte in the year IV, when he came to Florence."] [Footnote 1107: "Correspondance de l'Empereur Napoleon I." (Letter of Bonaparte, Sept.29, 1797, in relation to Italy): "A people at bottom inimical to the French through the prejudices, character, and customs of centuries."] [Footnote 1108: Miot de Melito, I., 126, (1796): "Florence, for two centuries and a half, had lost that antique energy which, in the stormy times of the Republic, distinguished this city.

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