title: Napoleon's Soldiers in America
author: Simone De LA Souchere Delery
description: Text: English (translation)<br /> Original Language: French
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  # The Napoleon of the People
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Honore de Balzac
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
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  Etext prepared by Dagny dagnypg@yahoo.com and John Bickers
  
  
  jbickers@ihug.co.nz
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### PREPARER'S NOTE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The Napoleon of the People was originally published in Le Medicin
  
  
    
  de Campagne (The Country Doctor). It is a story told to a group
  
  
  of
  
  
    
  peasants by the character of Goguelat, an ex-soldier who served
  
  
    
  under Napoleon in an infantry regiment. It was later included in
  
  
    
  Folk-tales of Napoleon: Napoleonder from the Russian, a
  
  
  collection
  
  
    
  of stories by various authors. This translation is by Ellen
  
  
    
  Marriage and Clara Bell.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a
  
  
  French island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there,
  
  
  everything is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other from
  
  
  father to son for generations a