18, 1819 .-- On the ideas and ways of Bonaparte's mother, read her "Conversation" in "Journal et Memoires," vol.IV., by Stanislas Girardin.) Duchesse d'Abrantes," Memoires," II., 318, 369.

"Avaricious out of all reason except on a few grave occasions....

No knowledge whatever of the usages of society....
very ignorant, not alone of our literature, but of her own."-- Stendhal, "Vie de Napoleon": "The character of her son is to be explained by the perfectly Italian character of Madame Laetitia."] [Footnote 1112: The French conquest is effected by armed force between July 30, 1768, and May 22, 1769.

The Bonaparte family submitted May 23, 1769, and Napoleon was born on the following 15th of August.] [Footnote 1113: Antonomarchi, "Memoires," October 4, 1819.

"Memorial," May 29, 1816.] [Footnote 1114: "Miot de Melito," II., 33: "The day I arrived at Bocognano two men lost their lives through private vengeance.