Excerpt from The Napoleon Dynasty, or the History of the Bonaparte Family: An Entirely New Work A bonaparte again rules France. The results of the late Revolution, have invested the character and history Of Napoleon with a new and deeper interest. Twice the Bourbons have gone down, and left a Republic in France, - and twice that Republic has given way to the Napoleon Dynasty. The struggle may not yet be over, but there are more Bonapartes than Bourbons living to main tain it. Something greater than stars watched over the birth of Napoleon, and a power higher than fortune guides the desti nies of the Bonaparte Family. NO one's history has been written by so many different hands, no one's history read by so many eyes, as the Corsican Soldier's. Not a generation has passed away since he died, and his name and his history, are familiarly known to more men today, than Alexander's or Caesar's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.