R.' ('sans reponse')" (Iung, tome ii.
p.

201)]-- In consequence of M.de Keralio's report, Bonaparte was transferred to the Military College of Paris, along with MM.

Montarby de Dampierre, de Castres, de Comminges, and de Laugier de Bellecourt, who were all, like him, educated at the public expense, and all, at least, as favorably reported.
What could have induced Sir Walter Scott to say that Bonaparte was the pride of the college, that our mathematical master was exceedingly fond of him, and that the other professors in the different sciences had equal reason to be satisfied with him?
What I have above stated, together with the report of M.de Keralio, bear evidence of his backwardness in almost every branch of education except mathematics.

Neither was it, as Sir Walter affirms, his precocious progress in mathematics that occasioned him to be removed to Paris.

He had attained the proper age, and the report of him was favourable, therefore he was very naturally included among the number of the five who were chosen in 1784.
In a biographical account of Bonaparte I have read the following anecdote:--When he was fourteen years of age he happened to be at a party where some one pronounced a high eulogium on Turenne; and a lady in the company observed that he certainly was a great man, but that she should like him better if he had not burned the Palatinate.