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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Drawings, Miniatures, Cameos, and Other Objects of Art, Illustrative of the Bonaparte Family: And the Principal Persons Connected With the Republic and Empire of France
This was a connection which may principally be ascribed to Lucien, who had recommended himself to an administrative appointment at St. Maximin, a small town a few leagues distant from Marseilles. Here he assumed the name of Brutus, and in conjunction with a monk, who styled himself Epaminondas, exercised a petty dictatorship, filling the prisons with unfortunate victims, as suspected royalists and aristocrats. But it is his boast that, with unlimited power in his hands, and at so youthful an age, be shed no blood, notwithstanding the in?uence of the examples around him. He even opposed the mandate of the commissioners, sent by the Convention to restore its authority at Marseilles, for the removal of his prisoners to be tried or rather guillotined at Orange - an act which exposed him to the anger of the commissioners, Barras, and Fr�ron, and nevertheless failed to save him from the imputation of being a Terrorist when the day of reaction arrived. In this revolutionary career Lucien was of service to his family: Joseph, who continued to reside at Marseilles with his mother, was of too mild and unobtrusive a character to gain credit with the powers of Jacobinism, whilst Napoleon was as yet an unknown subaltern, jostling among the crowd of rivals for preferment. In the person of the Abb� Fesch, indeed, who had accompanied his sister in her exile, the positive danger was incurred of harbouring a priest, then the most obnoxious of all delinquents to popular wrath. However, when the portents of the storm were gathering, the abb� prudently discarded his clerical robe, and sought a safer calling as a keeper of stores in the army of General Montesquiou, who; in the autumn of 1793, overran the country of Savoy. It was at a later period of the same year that an event occurred which laid the founda tion of mighty changes, involving not only the Corsican refugees in their effects, but deranging the destinies of all the nations of Christendom.
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