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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER V
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My eldest brother was living, and I therefore designated myself Fauvelet the younger.

This annoyed General Bonaparte.

"Such change of name is absolute nonsense," said he.
"I have known you for twenty years by the name of Bourrienne.

Sign as you still are named, and see what the advocates with their laws will do." On the 20th of April, as Bonaparte was returning to Italy, he was obliged to stop on an island of the Tagliamento, while a torrent passed by, which had been occasioned by a violent storm.

A courier appeared on the right bank of the river.


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