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Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon Buonapate, Containing Every Authentic Particlar, by Which His Extraordinary Character Has Been Formed, Vol. 2: With a Concise History of the Events That Have Occasioned His Unparalleled Elevation, and a Philosophical Review of His Manners and Policy as a Soldier, a Statesman, and a Sovereign, Including Memoirs and Original Ancedotes of the Imperial Family
After Buonaparte had been displaced from the ar tillery, and after his ill success before Ajaccio, he re mained in great obscurity, and was subject to con siderable pecuniary embarrassment: h1s friends were not numerous, and he was from time to time indebted for five or six livres to M. Guerin, a merchant at Marseilles; but the assistance he rece1ved from others was even more trifling than this. His prospects were dimmed by adversity, and he had no certain enmcta tation ofeither employment or support, when, tomrds the latter end of the year 1795, the following public occurrences favoured his hopes of being agaln called into action.
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